Installing H/D controller drivers with F6 during setup

I recently tried to downgrade a dell inspiron 1525 notebook from vista to
XP. However, this pc has a new hard disk controller(ahci), whose drivers are
not included in the xp installation cd. I can get the driver for XP but the
only option that I get during setup is to install it using the "A" drive
(floppy). Needless to say, this newer computer systems don't have floppy
drives anymore.

Is there a way to install the driver through F6 but using some other device
(CD, USB)? Luckily in this case I was able to switch the type of controller
in the Bios, but I susspect that by doing that, the performance of the
harddisk is compromised.

USB floppy

"Juan Navarrete" <jn5519@onelinkpr.net> wrote in message
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>I recently tried to downgrade a dell inspiron 1525 notebook from vista to
>XP. However, this pc has a new hard disk controller(ahci), whose drivers
>are not included in the xp installation cd. I can get the driver for XP but
>the only option that I get during setup is to install it using the "A"
>drive (floppy). Needless to say, this newer computer systems don't have
>floppy drives anymore.
>
> Is there a way to install the driver through F6 but using some other
> device (CD, USB)? Luckily in this case I was able to switch the type of
> controller in the Bios, but I susspect that by doing that, the performance
> of the harddisk is compromised.