change hard drive type dell dimension 4600?

[Anthony0630]

hello i need help to install win xp from usb back onto my dell dimension 4600 from what i read i need to change the SATA hard drive type in the bios to avoid getting a blue screen but from what i can see there is no option to do so thanks in advance

 

[RARRAF]

in you boot options you want to select your USB its probably in there named as somthing F: I: not C:

 

[BrianVS]

I solved this problem for a Panasonic CF-52 by downloading the SATA drivers to disk of a different computer and using the free version of "nlite" to add the drivers to the XP install and create a new install CD. The original XP installation did not have the drivers to access USB devices during the installation process and did not have the SATA drivers to see the hard drive of the CF-52.

http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html

This was not hard. Started with my XP SP2 Installation CD, moved files to the Hard Drive, moved the SATA drivers to the Hard drive as directed, then nlite makes a new ISO install image. Burn to disk under Win7- used it to install XP on the CF-52.