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jimrainfordson
Hi, I've gotten help on this topic a couple months ago but am still
running into problems. I have a nice clean image of my OS partition
that is customized and updated just the way I like it. I use True
Image to restore the image every so often but it's been a long time
since I've installed the OS from scratch and this is something I very
much want to avoid doing.
The problem is that I bought my first SATA hard drive but have
previously been using IDE and now I want to upgrade. The only way to
install the drivers is to do it during the OS install or during the OS
repair. It's my understanding that I should be able to repair-install
the drivers onto the OS parition of my IDE drive, backup the image,
then transfer it to my new SATA drive. I don't care about RAID. I
just want to install whatever I need to in order to use the SATA.
Windows XP (full version retail CD) SP2 (I'm running 32 bit)
Gigabyte 965P S3 motherboard with F5 bios
I went to Gigabyte's website and downloaded the latest SATA driver.
There were three non-beta files but only one 32-bit driver so that's
the one I got. I extracted it and moved it to a Floppy Disk.
I booted from the XP CD and pressed F6 to grab the 3rd party drivers
off the Floppy Disk. It came be four choices and I'm not sure which to
choose:
Gigabyte GBB363 RAID Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
Gigabyte GBB363 AHCI Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
Gigabyte GBB360 RAID Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
Gigabyte GBB360 AHCI Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
In a all too typical case of Murphy's law I'm having trouble finding
the install CD that came with the Mobo. The manual shows "Gigabyte
GBB36X Controller (windows 2k/XP/2003)" as the correct choice from the
CD, but with the driver from the website it appears I must choose
between RAID and AHCI. I'm not entirely clear on the difference but it
seems as though I must chose now and I won't be able to change it
later. From reading old posts, it seems to me that the way to go is
RAID 0. Nothing fancy. I just want to use the drive in a stable and
straightfoward fashion.
Anyway, which driver should I select?
On the last run through, I choose RAID 363 then the next screen told me
to reinsert my Windows CD into drive A:, FDD. The @#$* FDD! Due to a
lack of IDE ports, I had to hook up the CD via my USB so I think the XP
repair-install was unable to see it (even though it was running FROM
the very same USB CDrom). Anyway, I'll try again with a true IDE
CDRom, but it's not much use if I don't know which driver to choose.
I've been reading online repair-install tutorials and at some point a
menu pops up giving me three choices:
1. To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.
2. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press
R.
3. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3
Do I choose the FIRST option, then choose the partion and push "R" to
repair or should I just select option 2 from this first menu? I tried
this before (without pushing F6). That time I choose the first option
but there was not a later option for selecting R on the partition,
probably because there really wasn't anything to repair. However, if I
choose 2 from above, won't that wipe out more data that is necessary?
Again, my only aim is to install the SATA drivers.
Any help is appreciated. This has been a nightmere. It's a long story
but for reasons not worth getting into I have to go through quite a
process just to go through one XP reinstall and it's very time
consuming with each go through.
Oh, one more thing. During reinstall it asks me for the Administrator
password. I didn't create one but there was no way to enter "nothing".
Hitting return on the empty field just kicked me out of the setup.
I've since created a password just for this purpose, but is there a way
to get passed the password prompt if you DON'T create one?
Thank you for your time.
Jim
running into problems. I have a nice clean image of my OS partition
that is customized and updated just the way I like it. I use True
Image to restore the image every so often but it's been a long time
since I've installed the OS from scratch and this is something I very
much want to avoid doing.
The problem is that I bought my first SATA hard drive but have
previously been using IDE and now I want to upgrade. The only way to
install the drivers is to do it during the OS install or during the OS
repair. It's my understanding that I should be able to repair-install
the drivers onto the OS parition of my IDE drive, backup the image,
then transfer it to my new SATA drive. I don't care about RAID. I
just want to install whatever I need to in order to use the SATA.
Windows XP (full version retail CD) SP2 (I'm running 32 bit)
Gigabyte 965P S3 motherboard with F5 bios
I went to Gigabyte's website and downloaded the latest SATA driver.
There were three non-beta files but only one 32-bit driver so that's
the one I got. I extracted it and moved it to a Floppy Disk.
I booted from the XP CD and pressed F6 to grab the 3rd party drivers
off the Floppy Disk. It came be four choices and I'm not sure which to
choose:
Gigabyte GBB363 RAID Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
Gigabyte GBB363 AHCI Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
Gigabyte GBB360 RAID Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
Gigabyte GBB360 AHCI Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
In a all too typical case of Murphy's law I'm having trouble finding
the install CD that came with the Mobo. The manual shows "Gigabyte
GBB36X Controller (windows 2k/XP/2003)" as the correct choice from the
CD, but with the driver from the website it appears I must choose
between RAID and AHCI. I'm not entirely clear on the difference but it
seems as though I must chose now and I won't be able to change it
later. From reading old posts, it seems to me that the way to go is
RAID 0. Nothing fancy. I just want to use the drive in a stable and
straightfoward fashion.
Anyway, which driver should I select?
On the last run through, I choose RAID 363 then the next screen told me
to reinsert my Windows CD into drive A:, FDD. The @#$* FDD! Due to a
lack of IDE ports, I had to hook up the CD via my USB so I think the XP
repair-install was unable to see it (even though it was running FROM
the very same USB CDrom). Anyway, I'll try again with a true IDE
CDRom, but it's not much use if I don't know which driver to choose.
I've been reading online repair-install tutorials and at some point a
menu pops up giving me three choices:
1. To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.
2. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press
R.
3. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3
Do I choose the FIRST option, then choose the partion and push "R" to
repair or should I just select option 2 from this first menu? I tried
this before (without pushing F6). That time I choose the first option
but there was not a later option for selecting R on the partition,
probably because there really wasn't anything to repair. However, if I
choose 2 from above, won't that wipe out more data that is necessary?
Again, my only aim is to install the SATA drivers.
Any help is appreciated. This has been a nightmere. It's a long story
but for reasons not worth getting into I have to go through quite a
process just to go through one XP reinstall and it's very time
consuming with each go through.
Oh, one more thing. During reinstall it asks me for the Administrator
password. I didn't create one but there was no way to enter "nothing".
Hitting return on the empty field just kicked me out of the setup.
I've since created a password just for this purpose, but is there a way
to get passed the password prompt if you DON'T create one?
Thank you for your time.
Jim
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