Two days back I bought a Compaq CQ40 Laptop for my father. It comes with FreeDOS no Windows, so I thought I will just pop in a XP cd and that’s it.
But because of the new SATA interface XP won’t recognise the Hdd and there’s no way to disable SATA in BIOS. Vista will install just fine including the drivers.
The trick is to slipstream SATA drive into XP and then install. Use nLite for slipstreaming and here are all the drivers. I used XP with SP2 cd for slipstreaming. All the drivers will work except modem, I am sure there is updated driver available, but enabling audio is tricky.
