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Phil Obley
I have a computer that uses an MSI motherboard. it originally came with an
IDE drive, which I switched quite some time ago to a 250 GB WDC SATA II
drive. the motherboard supports only SATA I, which is fine. I copied the IDE
to the SATA using a WDC utility. this all worked OK.
Now for a variety of reasons I need to do a clean install of windows, but
find that xp pro does not recognize the SATA drive. currently the drive
appears in xp as a SCSI drive, using a microsoft driver (5.1.2535.0). I
would think that this driver would be on the xp cd, but apparently not, or
is not usable during the install process. the option to install drivers is
useless, because it requires a floppy drive! I thought this was a modern
operating system - I do not have a floppy drive, and have not used a floppy
disk in maybe two years. that's what usb keys are for.
All ranting aside, I guess I can get a copy of the driver from MSI, but
still need a means loading it.
any advice?
thanks,
Phil
IDE drive, which I switched quite some time ago to a 250 GB WDC SATA II
drive. the motherboard supports only SATA I, which is fine. I copied the IDE
to the SATA using a WDC utility. this all worked OK.
Now for a variety of reasons I need to do a clean install of windows, but
find that xp pro does not recognize the SATA drive. currently the drive
appears in xp as a SCSI drive, using a microsoft driver (5.1.2535.0). I
would think that this driver would be on the xp cd, but apparently not, or
is not usable during the install process. the option to install drivers is
useless, because it requires a floppy drive! I thought this was a modern
operating system - I do not have a floppy drive, and have not used a floppy
disk in maybe two years. that's what usb keys are for.
All ranting aside, I guess I can get a copy of the driver from MSI, but
still need a means loading it.
any advice?
thanks,
Phil