Question about SATA devices and WinXP
Okay, i want to ask you if it OK to have all SATA device (SATA HDD and SATA DVDRW) for WinXP? Will there be any installation problem (like it won't read the disc because there's no SATA DVDRW driver or such)? :confused:
Currently someone is asking me to built a PC with that kind of configuration, will it be OK? Or can you suggest me another OS that runs well on that configuration? Well, i don't want to take any chance so i'll ask you guys first... Note : Processor will mostlike be 64X2 with SATA mb and DDR2 (Haven't decided yet) Thanks before... |
Windows can use it's online search to try and find drivers, and if all else fails, you can ussually just goto whoever makes the item in question and download the driver installers strait off the net.
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You could load the SATA drivers on to a USB key and go from there.
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If you are talking about building a PC from scratch and you are having trouble with Windows XP setup recognizing the drive you may need to put the device drivers on a floppy. I don't recall if I had to do that on my most recent built PC with the newest version of XP, but I know I had to do it every time I reformatted with my older PC. I had the drivers from the manufacturer and put them on a floppy (obviously using another PC). Then during windows setup it asks you to hit F6? to load SCSI or other drivers so hit F6 and it will load them off the floppy.
Edit- I am assuming the problem is with a SATA hard drive in my explanation, I have yet to use SATA optical drives because my IDE ones work fine and I'm too cheap to buy new drives if the old ones work. |
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For your edit: I've experienced that before, installing XP sp2 and the SATA HDD didn't detected but the RAID driver from floppy solves all that. And yeah, what i really want to know is what'll happen if i use SATA optical drive... Edit-didn't noticed problemedchild's post Well, but XP request that the driver is on a FDD... |
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However, being the machine for another person... I'd personally recommend installing XP with a regular IDE drive, and then replacing it with the SATA one once the OS is installed. For the HDD you'll have to do as stated and insert a floppy disk with the drivers. |
You can use an USB device before going into Windows.
This site might help http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm |
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I'll try your suggestion by using an IDE optical drive first (oh man, i don't want to open up my cases again, it's so messy :uhoh::uhoh::uhoh:). Note : anyway i'll go to other city for 3~5 days where there's hard to find internet connection so maybe i'll ask again after i'm back... Thanks for the answers... |
I guess I've just been lucky in mobo selection... whether XP can deal with SATA or not seems to depend on the mobo presenting it as an option to XP. My game machine is a pure SATA system running XP. I'll have to pop it open to remember which mobo it was (AMD Athlon 64 based board).
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I think that if you have Windows XP SP2 the install should be fine, and you wouldn't need any extra drivers.
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If you have an older version of your Windows install disk, you can use that original disk and a copy of SP2 and slipstream it to make a new OS CD. You can use this program - NLite to make that disk.
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If you are using an older copy of XP, here are instructions on how to slipstream SP2 and create a bootable installation CD.
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/Windo...p2-bootcd.html |
Okay i'm finished installed it. I'm using WanderingKnight recommendation and use my ATA DVDRW for installing and replace it with the SATA ones later...
@Vexx : Would be great if you can remember what mobo is it... (I want that...) |
WinXP SP2 retail disk installs perfectly fine on my sata drives (Asus A8N-E)
i didn't need to F6/Floppy anything |
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Well, i know that already... What i really want to know is SATA optical drive before any OS is installed...
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Correct, your mobo BIOS should have a Boot Order menu. If it doesn't offer a SATA drive as an option after one is connected ... especially if it has SATA connectors, my advice is to use it for target practice and go get a properly implemented mobo.
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Does the OP happen to know the manufacturer or the board? |
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