First post, by captain_koloth
Hello all:
I'm trying to downgrade an HP Elitebook 8560w from Windows 10 to XP so that I can have almost maximum theoretical possible hardware that supports XP (for portable gaming anyway). However, I keep getting a BSOD during the XP installation process. I'm reasonably certain that what's happening is that I'm not slipstreaming the correct SATA storage drivers for XP in with nLite so that XP doesn't see my HDD, but I have not found any guides as to how to pick the correct ones. I have found some old forum threads that will direct me to a package with maybe two dozen XP SATA drivers, but it's not clear to me which ones are appropriate. I have tried including all of them but that just leads to a BSOD. Any ideas on how I can proceed here? (And yes, the 8560w does officially support XP, but the drivers I've found are generally in packages meant to be installed once the OS is already installed).