Installing windows XP on Portege R600

I have a pre-installed XP downgrade disk, but I'd really like to install a fresh windows XP instead.
So I insert a winXP disk, and install.
(a) Installing straight at boot doesn't work: it claims that I have no hard disks! See here: http://www.problem-solving.be/peter/s1.JPG
(b) Installing straight at boot doesn't work: it starts installing and all of a sudden I get this screen: http://www.problem-solving.be/peter/s2.JPG
I originally thought it was missing my SATA drivers, so I slipstream them onto the disk, but in both cases *exactly the same errors appear*. It's still the standard factory disk and just returning to my working windows installation works fine, so it's not damaged. What can I do?

Never mind, problem solved. I installed the wrong drivers. Apparently you have to slipstream the drivers from the F6FLPY in the 32-bit vista editon of the "Storage Manager".
(Yes, vista edition, even if you want to install XP... so not the "official" intel drivers, nor the ones present on the preinstalled xp.)

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