how do i enable smartdrive in WinXP

[MrHappyMonkey]

How do I enable smartdrive durring my WinXP setup? Not using it takes setup hours for XP to install. What do I need to do to enable this?

 

[TravisW111]

My motherboard has a bios setting that enables smartdrive. Other than that, you can probably make a autoexec.bat and activate it that way.

 

[MrHappyMonkey]

<< My motherboard has a bios setting that enables smartdrive. Other than that, you can probably make a autoexec.bat and activate it that way. >>



how would I do this?

 

[agnitrate]

If you have a win98 machine, it's on there. Just copy it to a 98 setup disk, run the smartdrive, then run /i386/winnt.exe

The SmartDrive exe is called smartdrv.exe just fyi.

silver

 

[MrHappyMonkey]

I don't have any Windows 98 systems local to me. Only Windows 2000. If you have a Win98 machine, would you mind sending it to me? My e-mail is lee@leenetweb.com.

 

[bozo1]

If you boot off the XP CD, it'll load it.

Travis - there is no Smartdrive in the BIOS, the setting is for S.M.A.R.T which if you have a SMART enabled drive, may warn you if your drive is about to fail. Different animal.