remove vista and install winxp in gateway m-6816 laptop

Hi, I tried to install winxp in my gateway laptop M-6816 (vista built
in). But it has SATA hard disc controller. For this, i installed SATA
controller by pressing F6 (while installing winxp) from floppy disc.
The driver title i selected from the menu is 'Intel (R) 82801 HEM/HBM
SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH8M-E/M). The SATA PORT as stated in
SETUP mode is WDC WD1600BEVS-22RST0-(S1). After installing the SATA
controller, it showed the hard drive and i partitioned the drives with
C drive as 40 GB and remaining for D drive. But when the winxp
installation started to dump files, it showed error with couldn't find
iastor.sys file. I skipped it to test and skipped other related files
to it (iastor.inf, iastor.cat etc.) after that the installation went
fine. But when the computer rebooted, it showed STOP error. i tried to
google a lot and found a way thats.. copying all the iastor* file
manually to c:\windows\system32\drivers folder, to my badluck, it
didn't solve. i tried lots of times .. but the system can't go on and
it reboots (as i disabled reboot on system failure it shows the same
blue screen with stop error.) as i crawl thru the sys files loading in
safe mode, it goes till mob.sys and reboots. Please anyone can help me
to sort this thing out, my application which i am developing doesn't
work in windows vista and i really need to install winxp to work on
it :(.. please please please.

regards,
Simon

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