1) I backed up the divers from the Vista install (located in the SWSETUP folder on the C:\ for HP computers). This is important because you will slipstream the SATA drivers (you are looking for "ich9ide.inf" in this case, but I have found it is much easier to copy the entire SWSETUP driver directory to a junk drive and browse to it using nLite) during the nLite process. (I like nLite for this but you could use anything you are familiar with for slipstreaming.)
2) Get yourself a non-oem XP install disk (preferably your own - pirating is not nice), put it in your ROM-drive and run nLite.
3) Browse to the install CD, hit the default though the next couple of windows until you come to this one:
4) Select the "Drivers" and the "Bootable ISO" buttons. When selecting drivers, browse to the removable drive where you put the SWSETUP drivers, and select the file ich9ide.inf (or whatever works for your sata version, e.g. ich?ide.inf). At this point, nLite will prompt you with a window of which drivers to include. Select them all and continue.
5) You final screen should prompt you with the following message:
Note: You may struggle a bit finding drivers, as I have said, but if you downloaded the SWSETUP folder, most of them should be on your junk drive - you know, then one we used earlier for slipstreaming. The Vista wireless and modem drivers work for XP, and the audio partially installs (it sits on the SMBUS), but you will need to download the Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family for XP for the rest. And the LAN driver is made by Realtek.
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