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I just did it this week on my toshiba satellite L355d.
last time i tried i couldn't get all the drivers. this time i got it all working right. yes it IS a pain in the butt! becuase drivers are scattered around.
first, as you discovered, you have to go into bios and change sata from ahci to compatibility. or you get the bsod after it starts to boot off xp disc.
then e.g. go to website and find drivers. on toshiba, i did a search and a uk division of toshiba had most of them. then also go to e.g. realtek and ati websites and get their drivers for xp. to power the sound and video cards and chipsets.
a really vexing problem was that the ati driver for the 3100 integrated video chipset was supposed to also install and include the southbridge driver, BUT, ati has crappy drivers ever since time, and it doesn't install as advertised, so you need to go download separately their ati southbridge driver and then sm bus driver problem is resolved.
yes, it IS a pain. it can be done. getting one with it all done for you is much easier.
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