thanks you for good suggestion but some of labtops don't have a bios for change sata mode it's lock with company producer therefore you must creat a new image of xp's cd from top instruction
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how to installing windows xp on sata AHCI:
you can creat a new image from win xp sp2 with nlite software and add
your sata driver in your cd's az folowing instruction:
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for example you can download ich9m driver from...