Tower of old laptops, do we want them?

I have one, 12V powered (for the car). I’ll dig it up and bring it on Tuesday

If the HDD uses SATA (as opposed to PATA, which was common when Windows XP was current), you may need to press F6 during Windows XP setup to load a driver (from removable media) for the SATA host controller. Or you can try to configure the SATA host controller to use PATA emulation mode instead of AHCI mode. Or you can use a non-antiquated release of Windows NT, such as Windows 7 or later.