LenovoS10-3t Ideapad; Want to clean install Windows XP,current version:Windows7starter wont start

Hello! This is my first time visiting this forum, nice to meet you all. I have a LenovoS10-3t laptop that I purchased maybe 2 years or so ago, and have since bought myself a newer/faster laptop. I now let my son use the Lenovo for playing games, mostly World of warcraft and facebook things. The laptop is ridiculously slow, and has gotten even more so lately. It's been years since I've tinkered with anything technical, so I absent-mindedly decided to do a spur of the moment 'One-click-recovery' thinking it would restore the laptop to the condition it was in when I purchased it.... well several minutes into this recovery there was an error (I didn't save the code, not sure what happened...) and upon restarting the laptop, windows cannot start any longer! I receieve an error:
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. (pic1)
They want me to insert the windows installation disk, which obviously didn't come with the laptop (remember, windows 7 starter edition) So my motherinlaw says she has a WindowsXP SP2 CD brand new at her house that I can have! Great! So I pop it in, boot up the laptop, change the BIOS to boot from USB drive CD (this particular laptop doesn't have a disk drive, so I have a USB external disk drive); Press F12 for boot menu; Press any key to boot from CD; Then a blue screen appears: Windows Setup. Setup is loading files (random files appearing in parenthesis)..... Then after 2-3 minutes: Setup is starting windows.... then a blue screen appears: A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again follow these steps: Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer. Technical Information: *** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF7A8B524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
If anyone has any information or ideas to help me, basically I don't want to save/restore anything on the harddrive, I just want to wipe it clean and start fresh, hopefully with this windows XP since it's a 'full version' of windows compared to the old windows 7 starter.... so that way it's a faster more efficient laptop for my son to play his games on... Thanks in advance for any help/info/points in the right direction. Hopefully I gave enough information, I'm not great with computers these days so I tried not to leave anything out! =)
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kellyabobbyc, welcome to the forum,
the 7B error message you are receiving is due to the fact that XP doesn't have the SATA driver necessary for it to recognise the hard disc properly and continue with the installation.
One of the methods of getting around this problem would be to set the SATA mode to compatability in BIOS, the XP disc will then recognise the hard drive properly.
Hope this helps
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