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I bought an IDE to SD card adapter in hopes of running Windows XP on my vintage dell laptop. But I can’t find a way to get XP on the SD card because the laptop doesn’t have a disk Drive to boot the installer from and tried to transfer XP on the SD card with a computer, but to no success.
Any ideas?
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Hi,
Assuming that you're using the SD Card as a HDD is this what you're trying to do?
Looking online the laptop has USB ports so you should be able to load the XP installer on a USB drive and then boot from it to load the SD card.
Use Rufus to create a bootable USB drive for the install ISO and then change the boot order in BIOS to boot from the USB if the option is there.
Given the low amount of ram (according to this max ram is only 640MB?) it may not work too well anyway
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This may also help, if you don't already have them:
DELL Latitude X200 Service Manual
and
DELL Latitude X200 specifications
Rufus v3.21 and the USB port is your key.
The computer has a USB 1.1 port. USB 2.0 is backward compatible with USB 1.1so most USB flash drives will work.
All you need is an XP iso file to make a bootable Windows XP installer which Rufus will do.
Study how Rufus works and away you go.
Make sure that you download all needed drivers to the USB drive after running the Rufus. Amazingly DELL still has drivers on its web site. Bless their hearts!
For your hard drive you could also use IDE to SATA or mSATA drive converter but your IDE to SD sounds good. I would experiment to see which is fastest. You could also use the CD drive bay - I'm assuming you don't have a CD/DVD drive which you could just use with the XP Pro install disk.
As an aside, for interest sake, I have a DELL Inspiron 6000 running Windows 10 using a IDE to mSATA converter. These mSATA drives are used on POS and gaming systems. They look like WiFi cards.
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