SATA hard drive, motherboard recognizes it and Windows XP install doesn't...

I have a 3yr old copy of XP and it doesn't seem to recognize SATA hard drives...I have no floppy disk drive to get drivers...

if you're trying to install xp on sata drive, you need the drivers for the controller as xp has no native support for them. gonna have to knuckle down and get a usb floppy drive i guess. the only other alternative might be to install xp on a pata drive, install the sata controller drivers, and then ghost the install over to the sata drive. that's really a whole lot of trouble when you could just get drivers on floppy

alternatively, put the sata drivers on a usb flashdrive and boot from usb device (if motherboard pernits this as an option) and you should be good to go. this is the proceedure i use when formatting my sata setup, and it's faster than using a floppy.

I've been able to install XP on a SATA drive before, but i reburned the disk with the drivers on it and with SP2 on it.

I have my XP on a SATA when I built mine, and it was a complete pain in the ass. Two hours later it finally got going and I still don't know why. I have ideas, but that's about it.

dualblade said:

if you're trying to install xp on sata drive, you need the drivers for the controller as xp has no native support for them. gonna have to knuckle down and get a usb floppy drive i guess. the only other alternative might be to install xp on a pata drive, install the sata controller drivers, and then ghost the install over to the sata drive. that's really a whole lot of trouble when you could just get drivers on floppy

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It also depends on the SATA controller. Windows XP does support SATA - well, Intel's ICH5/6 SATA controller with RAID disabled, in particular - through its ATAPI driver. The floppy-based driver is required if you're trying to install Windows XP on a separate SATA or PATA controller chip that is not native to the motherboard chipset, since those controllers are treated as SCSI controllers and not ATAPI controllers under Windows. The floppy is also required if you've configured the ICH5R or ICH6R controller to use RAID and have that support enabled.

Press F6 where windows install tells you, load drivers from floppy, continue install.

Same problem here.

Except I ghosted my main partition to another drive and now I get stuck @ the login screen with the new drive. Tried the/noexecute option norton suggests...

So now that basically everything is on the new drive I want to try and run a repair on this installation...but I don't have a floppy drive...or flash drive...

I do have the drivers for my SATA controller card though...where would I stick these in my WinXP ISO so I won't need a floppy?

Hopefully this will help Phranq too...looks like we need the same thing

EDIT: Got around my original problem with the use of Sysprep. Used sysprep...made image...ran mini setup using new sata HD with former installation...I had to reinstall the ethernet driver, AVG and my bookmarks got screwy...but it worked