so many times i have to reinstall win xp in customers computers but sometimes run into problem. the newest computers comes with SATA harddrive. when i try to install xp (assuming they lost the cd), windows cannot install because SATA drivers are not in my window installation. is there any way to include this driver in the cd? where do i get the drivers? there are so many different brand of harddrive, motherboard.
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usacvlr
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I've never seen an issue where windows needed a driver for a sata hard drive... that makes no sense. SCSI sure.. and I've seen issues where someone has their sata ports configured in the bios as raid ports but otherwise you should not be having a problem with sata in any system.
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really?
That happens alot, about 40%-50% of all computers I reinstall XP from scratch (not using a OEM disk) need a sata driver to enable the installer to see the sata drives, the real issue is the driver for the motherboard sata port not the hard drive
That happens alot, about 40%-50% of all computers I reinstall XP from scratch (not using a OEM disk) need a sata driver to enable the installer to see the sata drives, the real issue is the driver for the motherboard sata port not the hard drive
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the sata driver issue happens all the time on laptops or desktops. you can use a usb 3.5 inch drive or like someone said get the sata drivers and slipstream them. You should be able to get the sata driver from the motherboard manufacturer
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That is odd.. because on around 95 % of the machines I see that need the SATA driver, there is an option in the BIOS to set the HDD to IDE and it loads the OS!
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QFT. There's usually a legacy mode available. Sometimes it just says "Disable AHCI" or it may say something like "SATA Native Support".
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Yes I would say just switch in the BIOS to IDE mode
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Wrong.
If you use legacy mode, you don't get the full feature set of SATA. Granted, most consumer controllers don't support everything yet (like hot-swappable drives). Also, with correct drivers you get better performance (if the drivers are written well, that is).
Basically, I think you should load the drivers, but you don't have to in most cases.
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The only time this should happen on any board is if you have the drive plugged into one of the raid sata ports as opposed to the standard sata ports or if you have the sata ports configured as raid. As far as Intel goes, Intel boards and chipsets should never give you this problem which is why I ask. Intel gear just plain works without any BS which is why generally if I'm building a system I always go with 100% intel. This issue really has my shocked because this just plain should not happen unless it's a raid port. I suspect anyone have this trouble is using gigabyte, abit or asus.
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Once again, Wrong.
If you have Sata configured as AHCI, you have to load drivers. AHCI is faster, supports hot plugging, supports native command queuing, etc.
It is NOT supported by default on the Windows XP cd. Vista is the first version of windows that has built in drivers for it.
Don't take my word for it. Look it up for yourself. AHCI is not RAID, RAID is not AHCI. You DO have to load drivers for Sata drives that are configured AHCI/SATA in the bios on Windows XP.
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That's probably why at places I've worked(and my own shop) we always just disable that if necessary although frankly I can't remember a time ever needing to. Honestly I've just never seen this happen and almost all the systems you work on these days are sata. Wierd stuff at any rate.
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Yeah, most people do just run their drives in legacy mode. Eventually, though, it's not going to make sense to do that. With solid state drives being designed to run in ahci mode, and things like e-sata hard drives, it should be turned on. On Vista and newer operating systems, it's not an issue.
Like I originally said, most of the time you don't have to, but there is a reason why the drivers are needed.
I just noticed that nobody really answered the question of where to get drivers to slipstream!
Here's a link: http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/
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Dang
Dang man, take it easy, maybe they always use the OEM disk
That comment makes it pretty clear that you don't work on many desktop systems.
Dang man, take it easy, maybe they always use the OEM disk
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