Just wondering exactly how I am able to do this so that I can have an xp install disc to use for repair installs when necessary without having to reformat and start from scratch (currently I get a stop error).

 Also, is there a way to have the computer see the cd rom drive as a floppy for F6 supplementary driver install during setup?

 Thanks!

 Jason

 Welcome to the forums.

Since recovery disks for XP from HP are usually two disks.. one is the OS the other Driver / Software recovery.. you should be able to extract the drivers from the disk to a folder.  From there, using NLite you can create a bootable OS disk that will use the system drivers instead of MS's default ones.

If your BIOS supports booting from a USB device.. you can use a USB flash drive to store SATA drivers (or RAID) for installing in XP.  Also works if you purchase a USB floppy drive.

Btw.. what's the STOP error you are getting?