XP installer cannot see IDE or adapter drives
XP installers and XP setup cannot see IDE, PATA or SATA-adapter drives, so installs stop with inaccessible boot device errors.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 8 November 2023 · last reported 25 June 2025
What's going wrong
People installing Windows XP on older PCs report that the setup program finds no disk, or shows a blue screen for an inaccessible boot device.
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