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Installing XP onto an SATA drive
RiemannLives
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I am attempting this on a laptop. There is no floppy drive of course nor do I have access to a USB floppy.
I do have the following:
1) USB hard drive
2) USB thumb drive
3) Access to several other functional machines with burners
Any advice for the best way to proceed here?
I do have the following:
1) USB hard drive
2) USB thumb drive
3) Access to several other functional machines with burners
Any advice for the best way to proceed here?
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so very beat'd
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I have a Seagate 7200.11 500GB SATA drive and I'm not sure what drivers I need to slipstream into the CD. I found a few different options but some of them wouldn't slipstream properly and I'm not sure if it's the right ones. Anyone else have to grab the drivers for this drive?
It's not your drive that you need drivers for, it's the SATA controller on your motherboard.
but with SP3 (and even SP2), most of those are built in, unless you have a very old or very strange board.
Oh yeah, duh. I knew that, not sure what I was thinking when I typed that. That was a very dumb moment for me.
My board is a Gigabyte GA K8NS-Pro.
This is the drive I would assume it would be: NVIDIA IDE / SATA driver for nForce3 series
O.S. : Windows 2000,Windows XP
But if the driver runs both IDE and SATA, I would expect that if XP could see an IDE drive it would see the SATA drives as well, and it's not.
That page's descriptions are a little weird. I would try the Chipset drivers listed above: NVIDIA Chipset driver for nForce3 series (Included LAN driver)
O.S. : Windows 2000,Windows XP. Those are listed under the CHIPSET heading instead of SATA RAID / IDE. I have a feeling the driver you're downloading is for a SATA RAID configuration, not just a SATA drive.
RAID drivers, extract to a folder, slipstream from that folder
So I don't want the SATA/IDE drivers, I want the SATA RAID?
usually I'm on the other side of this, call me happy
Then you did something wrong because there should be very little difference in size and certainly not even remotely close to not fit on a regular CD (I usually make a new one every few months and despite adding many drivers and additional programs I've yet to run into size issues).
Perhaps I did. I dunno. I slipstreamed it and then it was ~800 or 900MB. I need to try again when I get some more time, just kinda left my computer sitting there.
It sounds as if you somehow ended up with both old and new versions of the files on the disc. The SP3 files should overwrite the old ones so when it's all done the size should stay pretty close to what you started with.
edit: beat'd.
Time to start Googling again. I'm sure someone out there has had to install XP onto a SATA drive with a Gigabyte K8NS Pro motherboard. I just wish they were easier to find. Also, I HATE ExpertExchange. Such a tease.
edit; beat twice.
During the install, you did hit the F6 prompt at the right time to tell it to install additional drivers correct? And what version of XP is on your disc?
if you slipstream the drivers properly you shouldn't have to do that.
OP: Are you sure they were right right drivers?
When I hit F6 it prompts for a floppy. I have no floppy drive.
The drivers I downloaded (and had to extract from the .exe file - ugh) were these because they are listed as the IDE/SATA drivers.
CRAP. I think I may need these (and apparently I am BLIND). Despite saying RAID, they also say that these are the preinstall drivers. Guess I'm going to go for attempt #2 tonight.
I wonder why my board had SATA drivers on it and yours don't.
And Justin, how old is your board? My board is like 4-5 years old now, so SATA wasn't really prevalent yet and drivers were iffy.
Also, when slipstreaming my drivers, should they be in textmode or PNP?
But yeah, the one I built in April was new.
Other cool thing is someone at work put up an image of XP SP3 so I don't have to slip that in anymore.
I may try to slip the audio and network drivers into a disc once I find one that works.
Cool stuff, very frustrating for old hardware.
Does nlite do vista yet?
It's not enough to know what motherboard or chipset you have, but you have to know exactly WHICH Raid controller is controlling that SATA connection. ie: My Gigabyte motherboard has SATA/IDE drivers for nForce3, drivers for Giga-RAID, and Silicon Image.
nF3 controlled my IDE Channels, GigaRAID was RAID for IDE, and Silicon Image (which displays for about 1/2 a second on the screen that shows my SATA drive during boot) actually does the SATA channel controlling. Then there was different drivers for during boot or in windows, and different drivers for booting a SATA RAID or SATA BASE.
Currently XP is formatting my drive and hopefully later on tonight I will be happily installing all my programs back onto this computer. YAY! And transferring about 30+ gigs of photos and music as well as another 30-50GB of video. Once everything is set up, I'll be transferring all of my miniDV tapes over as well so I can make DVDs of my home movies instead of having them trapped on 20 tapes all over the place.
YAY!