01. Prepare a USB Floppy Drive
02. Prepare a floppy diskette with SATA driver ( downlaod from Intel website - Intel Matrix Storage )
03. Prepare the windows XP CD
04. Boot the PC with XP CD in and lt the PC boot from CD ROM Drive
05. Press F6 during XP setup bluescreen
06. Follow the XP setup instruction to format the HDD
07. Install the XP
BEWARE !!! Likes FigtherPlane said you need to spend a lot of effort to install XP driver because you will find very difficut to searh for those driver.
I'm using XP for my Compaq V3754 and every hardware work well except for microphone. Very Sad !!! If I still cannot get the right Sound Card driver then I will change to Windows Vista but need to upgrade the RAM to 2GB because this VISTA consume a lot memory !!!!