These community-maintained ISOs have AHCI and SATA drivers already built-in, meaning you don't need a floppy drive or manual driver injection.
Several solutions and workarounds have emerged to address the challenge of installing Windows XP on systems with SATA drives in AHCI mode: Windows Xp Sata Ahci Iso Download
Windows XP is proprietary software owned by Microsoft. While mainstream support ended in 2014 and extended support ended in 2019, the software is not abandonware or public domain. These community-maintained ISOs have AHCI and SATA drivers
When the Windows XP installer boots, it attempts to load the storage driver. If the BIOS is set to AHCI and the driver is missing, the installer cannot communicate with the hard drive, resulting in a system crash (0x0000007B) or the inability to detect a hard drive partition. When the Windows XP installer boots, it attempts
A popular hobbyist version designed for modern hardware that includes a utility to add generic AHCI/SATA support to any standard XP ISO. Manual Integration (Slipstreaming)