Windows Xp on a SATA hard drive

#1 buckleman

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Posted 29 December 2005 - 05:54 AM

hi, i need help.

i tried to install windows xp on my sata hard drive. i did the F6 thing at the begining of the install but the files i copied wernt recognized by windows xp setup. i copied three files, a secutrity catalog, a system file, and a setup information file. the setup asked for an oem file or something like that. Anyway, i was wondering what files i need to copy to my floppy disk in order to install the drivers for my hard drive.

Thanx in advance for any help.

Pc Specs:
Motherboeard-ASUS A8V Delux
Procesor-AMD atholon 64, 1800MHZ (9x200)3000+
Hard drive-Maxtor 7 L300S0 SATA

#2 dcxman

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Posted 30 December 2005 - 11:54 PM

what you'll have to do is download the sata driver for your motherboard which can be found at:

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

it will be under the "ide" section listed as:

Version 1.00.0.26 2003/10/22 update
OS Win98SE / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Win2003
Description Promise SATA378 Driver V1.00.0.26 for Windows 98SE/NT4.0/ME/2000/XP/2003
File Size 959.32 (KBytes)
Download from Global USA Europe China

put that on a floppy and boot up under F6. specify for the xp driver and you should be good to go.

hope that helps

#3 jmmijo

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Posted 31 December 2005 - 01:28 AM

I have found on Via chipset boards that sometimes you need to load both the SATA RAID and the SATA IDE drivers for XP to install and run correctly.

I do believe this board is one of these affected by this situation.