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You don't need drivers for using an SATA drive. Those only come into play when using RAID.

Hurricane wrote:

You don't need drivers for using an SATA drive. Those only come into play when using RAID.

That depends on the chipset. If it's SATA-SCSI-PCI interface (e.g. a SiliconImage SiI3112) then you need a driver just to install XP.

_1_man-army.19 wrote:

I want to install xp but i need sata hd drivers so i found them but it seems you can only make a  floppy to install driver.. is there a way to use a cd? i dont have floppy in laptop and i dont wanna pay $70 for externel floppy  drive

Short answer: Yes, you'll need a floppy. You probably need to press F6 during the XP setup to load your SATA drivers - that will only work with a floppy.

Short answer, but not so short when you look into it: You could create an XP install disk with the SATA drivers 'slipstreamed' into it. This is a relatively easy thing to do. If you can find the relevant information. Try searching the Microsoft website for 'slipstreaming'...

jsnipy wrote:

Hurricane wrote:

You don't need drivers for using an SATA drive. Those only come into play when using RAID.

Depends on the bios of the board.

Try adding the SATA drivers to your windows install (slipstream) ...

.. this makes it easy .. http://www.nliteos.com/download.html

Then when you install you just press f6 and the installer will already have your drivers.

Nice find. I've been waiting for a tool like this all my life. (+1 to first person that can name the misquote).

Slipstreaming is a PITA, this seems to do it all in one easy to use app.

w00t

vista is now gone... it came with my laptop ;/  i disabled sata native in bios and it lets me install xp now