Windows Xp on a SATA hard drive

[buckleman 0]

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

 

[dcxman 0]

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

[jmmijo 1]

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.