How to Install WinXP SP2 on Satellite A205-S4587 without USB FDD

Hi all.
I ask a pardon for my English
I have Toshiba Satellite model A205-S4587. To me it is not necessary OS Windows Vista, and I want establish OS WindowsXP SP2. Because I have any queshion.
1. If at me is not present usb floppy drive as I can establish the driver for sata controller drivers . On site
2. For my model there is no support of drivers under WindowsXp SP2 on a site, only for Windows Vista. Whether there will be support WindowsXp SP2 for my model in the future and are how much compatible the driver from Windows Vista for WindowsXp SP2.
Thanks. Once again I ask a pardon for my English. WBR Nikolay Khachaturov.

Hi
I dont know if I can solve your all problems but I will try to provide some useful hints;
Regarding the point;
1) You dont need the external USB floppy drive.
You can create an own XP booting CD. There is an freeware application called nLite.
Using this program you can integrate the additional drivers like RAID or SATA and MS service packs into a Windows XP OS.
Google simply for nLite and Im sure you will find useful and interesting blogs and website about this software.
2) Well, this is an US notebook and was designed for US market.
Therefore you should look for drivers on Toshiba US website.
If you will find nothing, then either you will try XP drivers designed for another Satellite A205/A200 series or you will search for single XP drivers on chip manufacture sites like Intel, nVidia, etc
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