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If you meant "Can Vista get to SATA drivers from an external USB drive connected that has the drivers in a folder" then yeah, it should be able to because it now allows you to browse through folder structures.
Hope this helps...
I didn't think Vista needed SATA drivers during installation...
Vista should have the drivers built in for chipsets available now. I stress the word should.It doesn't unless your drivers are obscure. Vista installed on my SATA drive without any help whatsoever.
Vista should have the drivers built in for chipsets available now. I stress the word should.
It seems some people are having that problem with the Bad Axe 2 board. I've installed Vista on a number of Intel based boards, without issue, including three based on the 965 chipset. Intel's support has always been good about getting back to me with a solution, so you could try them.
Not 100% true. Some of the first mobo's that came out with SATA support needed the F6 drivers for the drive, for either RAID or as a single drive. A lot of VIA chipset boards from the "early days" of SATA were that way. I had a 865P (I think it was) chipset board that needed the drivers for a single SATA drive, until a BIOS update got around that.the only time you should need them is if the ports are provided via a raid controller or other pci connected controller. On chipset sata ports should work just as ide ports do.
Just curious, got some linkage for there support?
I beleive Bad Axe 2's are 975X chipset.
thanks
Yeah I never had a problem either. I installed XP to a SATA hard drive without a driver four or so years ago even.Even XP can install fresh on a SATA harddrive, from a SATA optical drive without a floppy. Worked fine on the system in my rig and in others I have setup....
XP had native support for this, why wouldn't Vista?
Seems like a silly question to me.
Um, the 865PE (MSI 865PE Neo2 series to be exact) and the various VIA chipset boards I used to install didn't have a 3rd party SATA controller... Trust me, some of those older chipsets that had SATA built into the main chipset needed the F6 drivers for any level of SATA use. There was no such thing as "Legacy IDE" or such on some of those older boards.thats because alot of those first boards didnt have chipset integrated sata, just silicon image or some other brands pci controller tagged onto the board.