You can be very confident, that you will succeed with the XP installation onto your laptop in real mode, if you have integrated the 32bit Intel textmode driver and checked the Intel ICH8M AHCI Controller, but you will not be able to test the drivers with VMWare. Probably not. It is not recommended to integrate several drivers of the same chipset vendor (in this case Intel), because you cannot be sure, which driver version at least will be installed. The problem is induced by the fact, that all different Intel driver versions have the same name: IASTOR.SYS. So the already integrated IASTOR.SYS file will be overwritten during the integration procedure of the next driver version.If you want to create an XP CD with a big variety of textmode drivers, I recommend to use the DriverPacks method. For details you may look here. Regards Fernando ok fine.But then can help me with a link to download the actual driver's: Intel® ICH8M SATA AHCI Controller - 2829 Intel® ICH8M Ultra SATA Storage Controllers - 2850 Thanks...............