how to install windows on a new harddrive

So if anybody here knows how to install Windows XP on an SATA harddrive, please let me Thanks for the info.Īlso, would the process be similar to the SATA driver method described above (only with USB drivers instead), if I wanted to make a live boot USB stick for XP? Let's say I wanted to make a USB stick contain a bootable copy of XP, so I install XP on a virtual drive in VirtualBox, and then use an disk image raw writer to burn that image to a physical USB jump drive. I plan to do this on a real computer when I get the chance. 99% of PCs now use SATA, not IDE, so I'm just using VirtualBox as a testing setup to learn how to do this. If anybody knows how to install Windows XP on an SATA harddrive, please let me know. Is this the point where I would do the CD swap, if that's possible? Is there some way around this? Will I need to have a separate CD (or ISO) with SATA drivers on them, and then swap disks between the XP install CD and the SATA driver install CD? I know at one point in Windows XP installation, there's a screen that says you can press F6 if you have a driver CD for any extra drivers you might need. I assume this is because at the time XP was released, SATA drives weren't even invented yet (or if they were they weren't available yet in consumer-level PCs). It has no problem installing if the harddrive type is IDE, only if it's SATA.

I tested this on VirtualBox, by selecting the drive type as SATA instead of IDE, and the Windows XP installer itself gives me a BSoD (the so called 'blue screen of death', that is the system crash screen in Windows).

How to install windows on a new harddrive