nForce based mainboards, WinXP and S-ATA

[Jakob]

Hi,

is there any way to get WinXP installed to a S-ATA harddisk on a nForce
based mainboard?

The reason I ask I flashed my A7V600-X to death :-( .

TIA,

Jakob

 

[Dave C.]

Hi,

is there any way to get WinXP installed to a S-ATA harddisk on a nForce
based mainboard?

The reason I ask I flashed my A7V600-X to death :-( .

TIA,

Jakob

Did you install the SATA drivers before trying to install WinXP? -Dave

 

[JAD]

http://www.andyjeffries.co.uk/blog/...GB_Maxtor_DiamondMax_on_MSI_KT6VVIA_8237.html


All in all it went pretty flawlessly, but I don't know if that's a
factor of the amount of research I did beforehand on the correct
steps. So on to "what I did!":


Installed the drive in to the cage and plugged in the red SATA cable
that came with the motherboard (MSI KT6V) and the power connector that
came directly from my new power supply. I also disconnected my
existing PATA drive (Western Digital WD800JB, 80GB/8MB Cache)

Went in to the BIOS settings and ensured that the boot order was
CDROM, BBS-0 (why BBS I'll never know, but my Maxtor disk appeared
there).

Put in a MaxBlast3 floppy disk (I tried using the bootable CD but I
use a USB mouse and it wasn't happy for some reason) and formatted the
new drive as one big 200GB NTFS partition (I do video editing using
EditStudio and DVD-LAB so I prefer NTFS for big capture files)
Installed a slipstreamed SP2 verson of XP Pro (apparently you have to
use at least an SP1 version of XP to install on to SATA properly -
however I wasn't willing to take the time to test with and without)
At the appropriate time hit F6 to install a SCSI/RAID driver (SATA
apparently appears as a SCSI disk) and put in the disk that came with
my motherboard.
Chose to leave the filesystem intact and installed as per normal.
After booting in to Window for the first time I then installed the
Maxtor Big Drive Enabler and everything seemed fine.
Since then I've rebooted lots of times and all seems fine (currently
have about 20GB free after a large capture from Sky+ so I guess I'm
past the 137GB limit )
The only outstanding issue is that after reinstalling my WD drive, I
can't boot in to Gentoo using XP's boot loader - only by using the F11
boot menu. For more information, see this

 

[jpsga]

Hi,

is there any way to get WinXP installed to a S-ATA harddisk on a nForce
based mainboard?

The reason I ask I flashed my A7V600-X to death :-( .

TIA,

Jakob

All Gigabyte boards ( that I have looked at )allow for a single SATA drive.
A nice one is the 7N400 Pro2 Rev2.

And it is popular enough that there is a lot help around.

JPS

 

[Jakob]

Well, thanks for all the fish.

To get to the bottomline: May I understand all these threads as "Don't
worry, simply put your WinXPSP2-CD into your drive and sit back"?

 

[Jakob]

Did you install the SATA drivers before trying to install WinXP? -Dave

I am having currently no working PC but I am having trouble with the
complaint department (aka Service Hotline ;-) ). The fact is I want use
this oppurtunity to switch to the NF7-S2G by Abit.

To answer your question in short: Yes, but for the VIA chipset. This
shouldn't be that problem, or?

Jakob

 

[The Big G]

Pre SP1 XP Pro will install to SATA. I just did it to a Raid 1 pair of WD
80 gig SATA drives,
a Gigabyte GA-K8NS mb, and using the SiliconImage 3112r drivers