installing on SATA drive

[Guest]

Hi. WinXP Pro doesn't recognize my SATA drive (it's all ok in BIOS). I read I
can get around this problem by loading SATA drivers with a floppy disc after
pressing F6 at the XP installation screen. However, I don't have a floppy
drive (and actually, I can't install one either, my case doesn't have room for
one).

So, is there any other way I can install XP? This really bites, by the way.

 

[I like toys and cake]

I had the same problem when building a small form factor shuttle PC,
I'm afraid the only way is to attach a floppy drive as windows won't
read from a USB flash drive or CD or network or anything (stupid
really). You don't need to install it in the case just plug it in and
have it dangling out of the side (actually I used the one installed in
another machine, I just connected the ribbon cable to it and kept it
powered by the machine it was fitted in) once the drivers are loaded
and windows finishes installing you can disconnect it. Of course if
you don't have access to a floppy drive you are going to have to
borrow or buy one, sorry.

Alternatively if the SATA drive is new, return it and get an ATA133
one which will have BIOS support without the need for drivers.

Hi. WinXP Pro doesn't recognize my SATA drive (it's all ok in BIOS). I
read I
can get around this problem by loading SATA drivers with a floppy disc
after
pressing F6 at the XP installation screen. However, I don't have a
floppy
drive (and actually, I can't install one either, my case doesn't have
room for
one).

So, is there any other way I can install XP? This really bites, by the
way.

 

[Jerry]

You can buy a USB external floppy drive.

Hi. WinXP Pro doesn't recognize my SATA drive (it's all ok in BIOS). I read
I
can get around this problem by loading SATA drivers with a floppy disc after
pressing F6 at the XP installation screen. However, I don't have a floppy
drive (and actually, I can't install one either, my case doesn't have room
for
one).

So, is there any other way I can install XP? This really bites, by the way.

 

[Sam]

Sometime on, or about Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:47:01 +0100, I like toys and

I had the same problem when building a small form factor shuttle PC,
I'm afraid the only way is to attach a floppy drive as windows won't
read from a USB flash drive or CD or network or anything (stupid
really). You don't need to install it in the case just plug it in and
have it dangling out of the side (actually I used the one installed in
another machine, I just connected the ribbon cable to it and kept it
powered by the machine it was fitted in) once the drivers are loaded
and windows finishes installing you can disconnect it. Of course if
you don't have access to a floppy drive you are going to have to
borrow or buy one, sorry.

Alternatively if the SATA drive is new, return it and get an ATA133
one which will have BIOS support without the need for drivers.

Hi. WinXP Pro doesn't recognize my SATA drive (it's all ok in BIOS). I
read I
can get around this problem by loading SATA drivers with a floppy disc
after
pressing F6 at the XP installation screen. However, I don't have a
floppy
drive (and actually, I can't install one either, my case doesn't have
room for
one).

So, is there any other way I can install XP? This really bites, by the
way.

There was a rumor out at one time, that SP2 would fix that problem.
Has anyone tried a new install with a slip streamed XP, sp2 CD to see
if that's true or not?

Sam

 

[Nick Burns]

Do you mean you don't see the unformatted drive listed in "drive
management".


Hi. WinXP Pro doesn't recognize my SATA drive (it's all ok in BIOS). I read
I
can get around this problem by loading SATA drivers with a floppy disc after
pressing F6 at the XP installation screen. However, I don't have a floppy
drive (and actually, I can't install one either, my case doesn't have room
for
one).

So, is there any other way I can install XP? This really bites, by the way.

 

[Bob Willard]

Sometime on, or about Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:47:01 +0100, I like toys and
cake wrote:




There was a rumor out at one time, that SP2 would fix that problem.
Has anyone tried a new install with a slip streamed XP, sp2 CD to see
if that's true or not?

Sam

SP1 fixed that problem. Just boot from a XP CD that includes SP1, and it will
let you init. a SATA HD and install to it; worked for me.

You do need a MB which recognizes SATA, and that may require you to update the
BIOS if you have a middle-aged MB.

 

[I like toys and cake]

SP1 fixed that problem. Just boot from a XP CD that includes SP1,
and it will
let you init. a SATA HD and install to it; worked for me.

You do need a MB which recognizes SATA, and that may require you to
update the
BIOS if you have a middle-aged MB.

My XP pro SP1 disk doesn't work, it requires drivers for the RAID
adapter which controls SATA devices on my shuttle Athlon 64 system

 

[Sam]

Sometime on, or about Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:32:18 -0400, Bob Willard
wrote:

SP1 fixed that problem. Just boot from a XP CD that includes SP1, and it will
let you init. a SATA HD and install to it; worked for me.

You do need a MB which recognizes SATA, and that may require you to update the
BIOS if you have a middle-aged MB.

My Sp1 disk never worked that way. I have a pretty decent Asus
A7N8XE-deluxe board that should recognize SATA without a problem... I
also have an older A7N8X-deluxe that also never did that.

Sam

 

[Nathan McNulty]

That is because RAID is totally different than just SATA.

 

[Nathan McNulty]

There is a way to slipstream the drivers into the CD. You may want to
read how to do that at http://www.msfn.org/unattended/

 

[I like toys and cake]

I know, my point was that Bob said SP1 fixed the problem of needing a
floppy with drivers in order to install onto SATA hard drives and I
was pointing out that in certain configurations where SATA was
provided either by a RAID controller or with no BIOS support, SP1 did
not fix the problem, it merely added more built in drivers for more
controllers.

 

[Nathan McNulty]

Ah, gotcha

----
Nathan McNulty

I know, my point was that Bob said SP1 fixed the problem of needing a
floppy with drivers in order to install onto SATA hard drives and I
was pointing out that in certain configurations where SATA was
provided either by a RAID controller or with no BIOS support, SP1 did
not fix the problem, it merely added more built in drivers for more
controllers.