How to solve the problem with installing Windows XP on a Toshiba laptop?

Question

Iron

There is a laptop toshiba satellite e45 b4200
They asked me to install Windows XP on it (XP for a number of reasons - special software).
Issue : The hard drive is not detected during installation.
Details:

• Installation from a flash drive (there is no CD-ROM on the laptop);
  
• I have already tried several distributions;
  
• Windows 7 installed without problems.
  

To be honest, this has never happened before. Behind more than 100 OS installations on various machines.
There are suspicions that the system needs a driver for the hard drive, but how to determine this?
I've been trying to install for 2 pm, but so far without results.
I would be glad to hear at least something :)
Thank you all for your interest and solutions!
Solution: We still couldn't get the laptop to work with WinXP, so we decided to install Win7Pro + Virtual PC (XP Mode).

Answer 1

If UEFI does not have the ability to switch SATA from AHCI to IDE emulation mode, then the only way to install Windows XP will be to download the Preboot SATA driver (for XP) for this laptop model and create an installation distribution using nLite with this driver integrated. If there is no such driver, installation is fundamentally impossible. Windows 7+ or Linux installation only, followed by a virtual machine installation (a special VirtualPC based XP virtual machine is available for Windows 7 Ultimate called "Windows XP Compatibility Mode").

Answer 2

The disk works in AHCI mode, and Windows XP basically does not understand this mode out of the box. Either you need to set the BIOS to ATA / IDE mode, or slip the installer disk drivers with AHCI support. Look for drivers from the chipset manufacturer, there should be a special kit for installing Windows XP (at least for Intel). You can also use the XP assembly that already has the necessary drivers, but I would not use the assembly, it's better to spend time and find them. True, there is a nuance - the XP bootloader wants the drivers for the disk to be on the flop drive, you can use USB. But these days, it's a rare beast.
On a laptop, there may not be an AHCI disable in the BIOS, on desktops, as a rule, there is still.

Answer 3

You can try to put the image through
www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator
Take a flash drive and ISO in YUMI select drive C (if you already booted from a live disk) (or a USB flash drive if you booted from a hard drive) and installation type - windows XP installer. I don’t guarantee 100%, the seven rolls with a bang HP didn’t try
PS Another number of problems with UEFI and disk partitioning
itpotok.ru/ustranyaem-oshibki-ustanovki-windows-xp
all everything..
for the first method, you need a flash drive of gigs for 8-16, roll through YUMI an easy assembly of windows resuscitator or windows pe and copy another YUMI and ISO with HP onto a USB flash drive, boot up, run YUMI from there and roll the image to the hard drive via EFI, then remove the flash drive, windows will start loading XP installer from hard drive. Yes, it's hilarious)

Answer 4

Through LiveCD, delete all partitions from the HDD and leave it unallocated. If you don't see it again, then create one partition in FAT32. Then change it in the installer.

Answer 5

Your laptop has a fairly new chipset, and there is no driver for it in the standard distribution of windows xp.
You need to integrate the drivers for your chipset into the distribution and rebuild the image.
In this instruction with pictures, everything is described in detail: acerfans.ru/faq/16-integracija-drajjverov-sata-v.html