[az61ru]

I have a Sony Vaio VGN-AR61ZU (Core 2 Duo T8300 2.4Ghz, 4GB ram, 2x250 SATA Fujitsu MHY2250BH) with VISTA pre-installed. I want to install Win XP SP2 on it. When I boot the AR61ZU from the installation disk for Win XP SP2 the installation process says that there is no hard disk in the PC.

I read previous posts in this thread. So I downloaded nLite and using it I combined my installation disk for Win XP SP2 with all the drivers that I was able to estract, using both the utilities "Double Driver" and "Double Max", from the AR61ZU. I burned a new bootable disk with this combination, giving the new disk the same name as the installation disk (WINXP_SP2) and tried again.

But I still obtain the previous result: when I boot the AR61ZU from this new disk, the installation process says that there is no hard disk in the PC.

The new installation disks is larger than the previous one - hence the drivers have been added, but I have the impression, reading the messages during the start of the installation process, that the new drivers I have added are NOT loaded.

Anybody has hints to why this happens and what I can do? Thanks

PS
The BIOS on AR61ZU is very simple and does not give me the possibility to change the hardware configuration as other posts in this thread have suggested: I can only change the boot order of devices and enable booting from network/external devices...