No hard drive recognised

i am trying to do a windows repair for windows xp on a compaq mini cq10 101sa but after pressing f8 to except the license agreement it tells me windows can not find a hard drive and cant continue

Hi:
You need to load the sata ahci drivers to install XP.
Please read this guide below and look at the Intel section.
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-Systems-and/SATA-drivers-for-XP-solution-on-0x000000...
Paul

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