The hard drive is not visible in Mini XP. Solution: Your SATA controller is set to AHCI, but 13.1 only supports IDE mode. Go into BIOS and change SATA mode from AHCI to IDE/Compatibility. (Remember to change it back later.)
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Restart the PC and press the boot menu key (usually , F9 , or Del ). Select your USB or optical drive from the list.
256 MB of RAM minimum (512 MB recommended for Mini Windows XP) Storage: 500 MB of free space on a target USB drive or CD-R (Remember to change it back later
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