In the version of nLite I used, two options were available load Single driver or Folder of drivers. Since I was not certain of which ACHI .inf files were needed, I elected folder option. I also took the precaution of excluding the SCSI/RAID drivers from my XP disc (it was suggested by nLite). I also, loaded the chipset drivers. By then I was tired and burnrt-out, so I gave-up on trying to extract drivers from driver executable programs where no .infs were avaialabe. The biggest burden was integrating all of the updates and hotfixes, about 90 of them. I was fortunate that I got my machine running with ACHI disabled earlier. After all of the updates were complete during the earlier install, I went back to windows update site and printed the list of updates. I was hoping to manually downloading them in anticipation of Microsoft abandoning support of XP. Downoading all of them was a burden, but now they are all integrated on the nLite install disk. Cool.
On a scale of success from 1 to 10, I'll vote 7 or 8. The primary goal of loading ACHI was completely succesful! It seems the chipset drivers did not load properly, since after the nLite install the first addition driver install I attempted to install, the wireless network, failed to recognize the hardware and stopped. It just manually reloaded all drivers and lenovo software.
Only a few problems exist. I could not load rescue and recovery. The error message said this software was only for IBM and Lenovo machines. I thought I had a Lenovo... There must be some signature like component that is registered in the operating system that is missing or since Lenovo does not authorize a downgrade for Vista Basic, they exclude my machine type. I'm not sure. I again had this problem with Intervideo winDVD. I can't read DVD format, and thus can't load some apps. I tried to share a DVD drive from my desktop but that didn't work either.
Any suggestion?