OEM SATA Drivers

[William Cooper]

Hi

I have a HP Pavilion Desktop with SATA drive. I am trying to install XP but
obviously I need to press F6 to select Third party drivers. I have them of
course but it will only look to a floppy drive. I do not have a floppy
drive. Is there a workaround to this. apart from going to a museum and
borrowing one??

Thanx in advance

Help

 

[Peter Foldes]

$15 at most computer shops . Did not reach the museum stage yet

 

[JS]

How To: Slipstream your XP installation:
Covers how "you add RAID or Serial ATA controller drivers to your CD so you
won't need a floppy drive (or the F6 key) to install Windows. "

Also there is nLite:
http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html

Hopefully one of the two sites listed above will show how you can integrate
the SATA drivers into a slipstreamed XP install CD.

JS
www.pagestart.com

 

[Andrew E.]

Forget slipstreaming the drivers to xp cd,say youre MB gets fried tomorrow,
those drivers probably will do you no good on the new "diffrent MB"...Go to
a good,or not so good pc shop,you'll probably find 2 or more dozen used for
5.00 or so.A new one is 15-20.00

 

[M.I.5¾]

Hi

I have a HP Pavilion Desktop with SATA drive. I am trying to install XP
but obviously I need to press F6 to select Third party drivers. I have
them of course but it will only look to a floppy drive. I do not have a
floppy drive. Is there a workaround to this. apart from going to a museum
and borrowing one??

Short of slipstreaming the driver into the Windows installation disk, you
really have to load this from a floppy disk. If your BIOS has USB support
(it probably has) then it can be loaded from a USB floppy disk drive which
won't cost you more than £15-20. They haven't quite reached museum status
yet.

 

[Twayne]

How To: Slipstream your XP installation:

Covers how "you add RAID or Serial ATA controller drivers to your CD
so you won't need a floppy drive (or the F6 key) to install Windows. "

Also there is nLite:
http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html

Hopefully one of the two sites listed above will show how you can
integrate the SATA drivers into a slipstreamed XP install CD.

Possible: but plan to spend a LOT of time getting it to assemble
properly, and then try to figure out a way to test it before you need
it. A LOT of slipstreamed disks fail when something catastrophic
happens and they're really needed then, when it's too late to be testing
them. Do not test it on your production disk; use a spare drive or
computer.
That's a lot of work to keep from pressin the F6 key.
When everything works, then look into imaging backup software like
Ghost of True Image. Google for them.

HTH

 

[Twayne]

Short of slipstreaming the driver into the Windows installation disk,
you really have to load this from a floppy disk. If your BIOS has
USB support (it probably has) then it can be loaded from a USB floppy
disk drive which won't cost you more than £15-20. They haven't quite
reached museum status yet.

Even external USB or parallel/serial port floppy drives have gotten
very cheap here in the US. Sorry to hear they're so high in the UK;
sympathies.

 

[JS]

I use AutoStreamer, but then I have a floppy so a SATA drive would not be an
issue if I had one.
I already use Ghost and have a PC used for testing purposes.

JS

 

[John McGaw]

Possible: but plan to spend a LOT of time getting it to assemble
properly, and then try to figure out a way to test it before you need
it. A LOT of slipstreamed disks fail when something catastrophic
happens and they're really needed then, when it's too late to be testing
them. Do not test it on your production disk; use a spare drive or
computer.
That's a lot of work to keep from pressin the F6 key.
When everything works, then look into imaging backup software like
Ghost of True Image. Google for them.

HTH

nLite can create slipstreamed CDs in no time and I've never had one fail
yet. It is by far the easiest way I've found to do this potentially
day-killing job: http://www.nliteos.com/

John McGaw
http://johnmcgaw.com

 

[William Cooper]

Hi

Okay I managed to get the machine to read a USB floppy drive, that I had
from a Dell Lap Top and can see the drivers and install them, but still XP
install does not see the drive. If I set the BIOS to drive type IDE it will
install and format and do this is without WD drivers... Goes blue screen
after reboot though...But it does not see the full capacity of the drive. It
reports 118 Gb. BIOS can see the drive and reports it is a Western Digital
WD3200AAKS size 320 Gb. I have been unable to find any SATA drivers
specifically for this drive on the WD site. I have run diagnostics on the
motherboard and all is Okay, I have latest BIOS version too.

Anyway I got the floppy working which was my original post so I will re
post. And yes slipstream can be a bitch....

Thanxs for your input.....

 

[Andy]

Hi

Okay I managed to get the machine to read a USB floppy drive, that I had
from a Dell Lap Top and can see the drivers and install them, but still XP
install does not see the drive. If I set the BIOS to drive type IDE it will
install and format and do this is without WD drivers... Goes blue screen
after reboot though...But it does not see the full capacity of the drive. It
reports 118 Gb. BIOS can see the drive and reports it is a Western Digital
WD3200AAKS size 320 Gb. I have been unable to find any SATA drivers
specifically for this drive on the WD site. I have run diagnostics on the
motherboard and all is Okay, I have latest BIOS version too.

The Windows driver you need is not for the WD disk drive, but rather
for the SATA interface that is on the motherboard in the HP computer.
In other words, it doesn't matter who makes the disk drive; what
matters is who makes the SATA interface chip on the motherboard. You
get the SATA AHCI driver from the manufacturer of that interface chip.

 

[M.I.5¾]

Even external USB or parallel/serial port floppy drives have gotten very
cheap here in the US. Sorry to hear they're so high in the UK;
sympathies.

Generally the numerical part of the price is the same. So anything that
costs $15 in the US costs £15 here. Having said that, I haven't bought one
in a while so it is possible that they may be had for even less on the 'net.

 

[jklingler]

Hi

Okay I managed to get the machine to read a USB floppy drive, that I had
from a Dell Lap Top and can see the drivers and install them, but still XP
install does not see the drive. If I set the BIOS to drive type IDE it will
install and format and do this is without WD drivers... Goes blue screen
after reboot though...But it does not see the full capacity of the drive. It
reports 118 Gb. BIOS can see the drive and reports it is a Western Digital
WD3200AAKS size 320 Gb. I have been unable to find any SATA drivers
specifically for this drive on the WD site. I have run diagnostics on the
motherboard and all is Okay, I have latest BIOS version too.

Anyway I got the floppy working which was my original post so I will re
post. And yes slipstream can be a bitch....

Thanxs for your input.....

I just recently installed slipstremed SP3/XP Pro on 2 computers.
Both have SATA 250gig hard drives. I didn't have to do anything but put
the disk in and let her rip. Set up the first partition from it and
installed,Then formatted the rest of the space from XP. I slipstreamed
with Nlite and didn't have to add any drivers or anything . Very simple
operation.