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MrCrispy:
It's a PCIe card that XP recognizes without issue.  If you mean XP won't boot from such a beast, then press F6 during the standard XP blue-screen setup (when prompted) and you can install the 3rd party drivers that came with the SATA/Raid controller.  Then it'll be a permanant part of your XP install.

Or am I missing something?
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I know I can do that. The point is I only want to have 1 install disk which works on all hardware. So I'm integrating the drivers into the install image.

tinjaw:
Oh man, open your eyes!!! All the software there is configured to be added to XP installation discs.
-Nighted (November 27, 2007, 03:21 PM)
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So, are you telling me (remember, I have never used nLite) that things need to be specially packaged to go on a nLite install disk? I was always under the assumption that 1) you could only add apps that supported silent installations and/or answer files (at which point you would want to create them yourself to fit your needs/requirements/wishes) 2) if not, they were something halfway between an answer file and a partial clone after being installed on the master machine.

So my take away is that they require special packaging and that the apps on the site have already gone through that packaging process and if you use them you get a default install w/o any customization (like choosing not to install them at C:\Program Files\AppName).

Nighted:
Yes, you can add any installer, but you must know the switches for many of them. Some are obvious, some are not. Basically this is very confusing to many users, thus the creation of these CAB archives to simplify the process for people that just want to make a disc and not have to spend hours trying to add some extras. BTW, the only archiver I've used that can make proper CAB archives is Renegade's ALZip. Not even WinRAR or 7-Zip can do it properly. Probably not WinZip either.

Deozaan:
XP SP2 supports SATA disks without any magic tricks ;D
-Lashiec (November 27, 2007, 02:08 PM)
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Not true. I downgraded from Vista to XP SP2 earlier this year because someone told me SP2 supports SATA no problem, but I still had to install the drivers manually. Which was impossible because I don't have a floppy drive in this machine. This machine was useless for about a month until I took it for about a 2-hour drive to my parents and borrowed a floppy from one of their machines.

Nighted:
Not true. I downgraded from Vista to XP SP2 earlier this year because someone told me SP2 supports SATA no problem, but I still had to install the drivers manually. Which was impossible because I don't have a floppy drive in this machine. This machine was useless for about a month until I took it for about a 2-hour drive to my parents and borrowed a floppy from one of their machines.
-Deozaan (November 27, 2007, 04:12 PM)
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I think you mean RAID. XP supports SATA interfaces.

You can integrate drivers into your XP install disc. Then they are automatically installed when you load Windows, no floppy drive or interaction needed.

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