Hey, I am wanting to wipe my hdd and reinstall everything but completely forgot that when you want to install a sata hdd you need a floppy disk with drivers onnit. First off, I don't know what drivers I need, I have a Seagate 120GB hdd, and second, I have no floppy drive, so is it possible to do this off a CD somehow? thanks for any help!
drivers for sata drive when installing windows
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You can get your drivers from your mobo website (I think). Put them on a CD. When it asks for the drivers point to the CD.
so the install won't mind me taking out the winxp cd during the install so i can point it at the sata drivers, no? 
Oh, one more thing, Nero has an option to make it a bootable data disk or not... which should I choose?
You cannot get drivers off of a CD during Windows XP install. You will need to copy them to a floppy or create a slipstreamed install with nLite or something similar.
Do what clpl said. Go to http://www.nliteos.com/ slipstream SATA/RAID drivers into new XP cd and never use a floppy again. I've used it on my last two builds and haven't touched a floppy in years.
Originally posted by: Stern
Ok will try, is it easy?
yes, Just give it a shot and make a post if you have any problems. I seem to remember the older version did everything in one step. The last time I did it I had to slipstream everything, then make an .iso, and then go back in and burn it. It was as simple as that. I may have messed up an option that didn't automatically do it all but it still worked perfectly.
Also, depending on your mobo, you can set SATA to native in your BIOS. I was able to do that on my 965P-S3 and didn't have to mess around with adding the 3rd party driver
Ok, just one more question, as I've just discovered I only have one CD-R lying around so this has to go perfect the first time. ASRock have the following file:939 Dual-SATA2 Motherboard
available for me. Scroll down, it's the SATA RAID Driver (For system to read from floppy diskette during Windows installation) - 475.13KB
The file in the win_nt folder is the one i want? sorry but I've been delayed and delayed to get this format done(because I needed to wait for new harddrive to arrive) and i just want to make sure i get it right. Thanks for your patience.
available for me. Scroll down, it's the SATA RAID Driver (For system to read from floppy diskette during Windows installation) - 475.13KB
The file in the win_nt folder is the one i want? sorry but I've been delayed and delayed to get this format done(because I needed to wait for new harddrive to arrive) and i just want to make sure i get it right. Thanks for your patience.
the above posts are correct. you need to make a slipstreamed winxp install CD or DVD that contains the necessary drivers. This site can be helpful: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp. It tapers off toward the end, in my opinion, but it has a lot of useful info on how to actually go about doing it.
Edit: I recommend focusing on adding only SATA drivers on your first (apparently only) disk. You can also add hotfixes such as SP2 and critical updates, and also individual programs. For me, I just pop in my custom XP DVD, and windows installs itself, then installs my favorite programs including Office, and even changes registry settings to set up the desktop how I like it cosmetically. Pretty cool, huh?
Edit: I recommend focusing on adding only SATA drivers on your first (apparently only) disk. You can also add hotfixes such as SP2 and critical updates, and also individual programs. For me, I just pop in my custom XP DVD, and windows installs itself, then installs my favorite programs including Office, and even changes registry settings to set up the desktop how I like it cosmetically. Pretty cool, huh?
I have used this site to create my slipstreamed DVD and it's been working great.
Stern - if you only have one CDR, I suggest you create an ISO image and load install it on a virtual machine. If all goes well, then you can go ahead and burn your image onto a CD.
I just did it with a CD on a Vista install (used a CD to install my SATA drivers). Is it different than XP? It worked fine for me.
I've never slipstreamed Vista, but I would assume the concept is the same: the install program looks for certain directories on the source disk. If you can make an ISO image from the original disk, then you can overwrite those directories with the updated information.
yes it is. One of the best improvements in Vista is the new setup procedure which lets you load drivers off a flash drive or cd-r. XP is based on the same model that was used as far back as NT4, which is floppy or integrated on CD.
nLite is a great app. Slipstream service pack 2, and your cd key. Love it. A word of caution though, don't make too many tweaks, because sometimes it can really mess things up. Stick to basics.
BTW, you don't need to install SATA drivers when installing windows unless you have a SATA RAID array. A proper bios will "fake" a standard IDE controller to Windows setup, and after you get to the desktop you can load your SATA drivers the usual way. This may not be the case for RAID controllers that aren't a part of the northbridge - like say you have 4 SATA ports on the nForce4, and 2 more with a silicon image controller. The nForce ports will definitely work, but the silicon image ports probably won't.
I've been using SATA since the nForce 2 days and only had to load the drivers on setup once, and that was when I had a 2 drive RAID0 array. Make an nLite disk though anyway. Not having to type in your product key alone is worth it
Good luck
~MiSfit
nLite is a great app. Slipstream service pack 2, and your cd key. Love it. A word of caution though, don't make too many tweaks, because sometimes it can really mess things up. Stick to basics.
BTW, you don't need to install SATA drivers when installing windows unless you have a SATA RAID array. A proper bios will "fake" a standard IDE controller to Windows setup, and after you get to the desktop you can load your SATA drivers the usual way. This may not be the case for RAID controllers that aren't a part of the northbridge - like say you have 4 SATA ports on the nForce4, and 2 more with a silicon image controller. The nForce ports will definitely work, but the silicon image ports probably won't.
I've been using SATA since the nForce 2 days and only had to load the drivers on setup once, and that was when I had a 2 drive RAID0 array. Make an nLite disk though anyway. Not having to type in your product key alone is worth it
Good luck
~MiSfit
Yeah when I got the drive I don't remember having to use a floppy disk to install drivers. When I reformatted though I did. And now again.
Just downloading SP2 now so I can stream it in. Thanks for all the help everyone!
Just downloading SP2 now so I can stream it in. Thanks for all the help everyone!
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