I bet the BIOS is set to use AHCI for the hard drives. XP doesn't work with AHCI unless you have updated drivers at install time as Warren mentioned. You can also go into the BIOS and change the drives to IDE or Legacy (exacting wording varies) mode so then you wouldn't need to bother with special drivers at install time.
You will need to get the Mass Storage Driver from support.dell.com and when loading XP, press F6 to add mass storage drivers at the beginning of the installation.
Clint11
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December 14th, 2011 21:00
I bet the BIOS is set to use AHCI for the hard drives. XP doesn't work with AHCI unless you have updated drivers at install time as Warren mentioned. You can also go into the BIOS and change the drives to IDE or Legacy (exacting wording varies) mode so then you wouldn't need to bother with special drivers at install time.
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December 14th, 2011 13:00
You will need to get the Mass Storage Driver from support.dell.com and when loading XP, press F6 to add mass storage drivers at the beginning of the installation.
m1interactive
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December 15th, 2011 07:00
Yes! This absolutely fixed the issue. Thank you!