Dumb Question about installating XP onto SATA

[araczynski]

I feel completely stupid for asking this (but desperate and tired enough not to care)... Finally built my current rig (a task i bother with every 3 or 4 years), and of course i'm stuck at installing XP 🙁.

XP doesn't recognize that any hard drives are installed (there's 3 recognized by bios).

I'm 99.9% sure that I need to hit F6 during the initial XP loading process like it says and install an SATA driver, but am having a heck of a time finding one...

granted this didn't come to me till about 1am while i was trying to get back to sleep. i'm guessing there's one on the mobo CD that came with the drive correct?

i'm at work right now and was hoping to download one from their website and prepare a floppy for when i get back home, but can't seem to find anything on their (slow) website either.

can anyone clue me in and tell me either whether the driver is on the CD (and i should just wait till i get home) or if they know of the specific thing i need from their website? The only thing i seem to find is the RAID drivers, which i have no interest in at this time. or do i need a subset of what's in these raid drivers?

I was hoping to not have to waste any more time with floppy drives, but looks like now i'll have to dig one of those up as well. Installing a bios update from the USB drive from the BIOS menus was a nice change from what i'm used to in the past however 🙂

TIA.

 

[Twsmit]

If you have a slipstreamed Service pack 1 or 2 XP CD, you dont need to use F6, except in the case of a RAID array, or a 3rd party SATA controller such as one made by silicon image. In the case of an Nforce 4/5, or modern Intel mobo you dont need drivers for SP1 or SP2 CDs.

 

[araczynski]

Its an Intel ICH7R southbridge that the 3 drives are connected to (1 UDMA, 3 SATA controller). there's also a Jmicron (JMB363) SATA controller (1 external SATA, 1 internal SATA raid capable with external SATA, 1 UDMA), and a Silicon Image 4723 Hardware Raid controller (2 internal SATA).

but neither of the latter 2 should matter as the 3 sata drives are connected to the ICH7R controller's ports.

but you're saying as long as i'm using an XP CD with SP1 or 2 already on it i shouldn't need drivers...

 

[Twsmit]

Originally posted by: araczynski

but you're saying as long as i'm using an XP CD with SP1 or 2 already on it i shouldn't need drivers...

yep

 

[chairbornrangerx]

There should be a CD that came with your SATA hard drives that has a utility you can boot to, and format the drive so its recognized and then you should be able to install XP

 

[araczynski]

Originally posted by: chairbornrangerx
There should be a CD that came with your SATA hard drives that has a utility you can boot to, and format the drive so its recognized and then you should be able to install XP

OEM, i'll go to seagate and find/burn it and see if it helps, forgot to mention this is a virgin drive, maybe that's the issue.

thanks.

 

[chairbornrangerx]

Originally posted by: araczynski

Originally posted by: chairbornrangerx
There should be a CD that came with your SATA hard drives that has a utility you can boot to, and format the drive so its recognized and then you should be able to install XP

OEM, i'll go to seagate and find/burn it and see if it helps, forgot to mention this is a virgin drive, maybe that's the issue.

thanks.

Should, its the same issue I ran into building my system last december, and I had SATA straight out of the gates...

 

[araczynski]

thanks, just finished making a boot cd from seagate's discwizard, i'll see how it goes tonight.

between the help here i'm sure I'll get it working tonight, thanks guys.