Bonnie,

I know what drivers are. My question was where are they (the ones you were referring to) since when I install XP on any PC the disk is blank and the drivers do not exist until after XP has been installed.
So how then can it be dependent on drivers as you so stated if no drivers exist? This is what I don't understand.

I can't tell you the name of the PC as I haven't bought one yet. I was just looking at new PCs and asked the sales person if I can take out the hard drive with Windows * and replace it with a new hard drive on which I will install XP.