i installed a new solid state drive?

[chucksue]

i have a HP folio 13 1020us. the SS drive started to give me a warning that it was crashing. i bought the exact same drive and installed it.i tried to load XP and it gave me the blue screen warning.

i would like to get it back to windows 7 pro. I don't have that software and I'm afraid to invest in it because it might not load. Why do I get the blue warning screen?Any suggestions.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You have to install the SATA AHCI storage controller drivers for Windows to find the drive in Windows XP.

There are two ways to do it.

One requires a USB floppy disk drive and a floppy disk.

The other method requires slipstreaming the SATA AHCI drivers into a copy of your XP installation media.

With the floppy disk method, at the beginning of the WXP installation procedure, you press the F6 key to let Windows know you are going to load a driver.

When Windows is done loading the installation files, it will stop and ask you to press the 's' key to load the drivers.

You browse to the floppy disk scroll up or down and select the Intel(R) Mobile Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller from the list of files on the floppy disk and Windows XP should install.

I have zipped up and attached the Intel SATA AHCI storage controllers below.

There are two files inside the folder one for 32 bit and one for 64 bit.

You copy only the files in the applicable folder to the floppy disk.

The other method would be to slipstream either the 32 bit or 64 bit driver folder in the attached file as applicable, to a copy of your Windows installation media.

I have attached the instructions for how to do that, below.

After the slipstream has been successfully completed, you use the copy of the XP disk with the slipstreamed drivers to install windows and it should work normally.