Ian Field wrote:

Apparently that machine needs an ACHI driver which is absent from XP.

Something like that.

A freind of mine got stuck with one of those things (this was 2008/09) and
that V5505 is like the cheapest/low performance laptop for "business use",
whatever the **** that means.

It shipped with Vista, not XP.

Anyway, check the bios for that ACHI mode, there is something you can toggle
on or off (from whatever it is now) that should let XP install. But I'd
leave the linux on it if it was me.

-bruce