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Windows XP & sata drive
Carol Haynes:
I think it depends on the drives too. I have installed XP on my system using SATA II drives without any issue and there doesn't seem to be a BIOS compatibility setting to select.
My laptop was a different matter though - I had to slipstream drivers for AHCI compliant SATA drives to even get the manufacturer's own XP installation disk to install otherwise it just said 'No hard disk present'.
mrHappy:
Found out my current mb doens not support AHCI mode so I'm going to have to get a new one for that anyway.
But as long as slipstreaming is doable and not much harder than slipstreaming sp3 I'll figure it out.
f0dder:
I think it depends on the drives too. I have installed XP on my system using SATA II drives without any issue and there doesn't seem to be a BIOS compatibility setting to select.-Carol Haynes (July 15, 2009, 11:33 AM)
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Sounds like an old BIOS that only supports compatibility mode?
Carol Haynes:
Found out my current mb doens not support AHCI mode so I'm going to have to get a new one for that anyway.
But as long as slipstreaming is doable and not much harder than slipstreaming sp3 I'll figure it out.
-mrHappy (July 15, 2009, 02:35 PM)
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Simplest way is to use nLite on an original WinXP CD contents. I used this method, didn't remove anything from the original disk just added the SATA drivers and built a new ISO to burn. Took probably under 15 minutes to do the lot.
4wd:
4wd: XP only supports loading drivers from floppy, flash drive support wasn't introduced until Vista (unless it's an addition in SP3).-f0dder (July 15, 2009, 09:46 AM)
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Well, all I can say is it works here but you could be right, I didn't take note of the SP. Also, maybe it depends on how the flash has been formatted?
All mine are done to look like HDDs so I have a better than even chance of being able to boot off the damn things.
mrHappy: you can indeed run your SATA drives in "compatibility mode" in your BIOS, and then you won't need drivers... but then you won't get the full benefit from the drives (NCQ and such). It's pretty easy slipstreaming drivers to your install disc though, so I'd definitely run in AHCI mode :)
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You can also use DriverPacks, just download the BASE program and the MassStorage driverpack and you'll end up with an XP that will load onto almost anything no matter what mode the SATA is in, (although they haven't updated it for some of the latest motherboards <6 months old).
EDIT: Actually I do now vaguely remember loading my SATA drivers from flash drive for SP2 for my old AsRock 939 motherboard - maybe it depends on the motherboard?
Dang it! I'll just have to try it on the spare computer for each SP, enquiring minds want to know......grrrrr.......curse you f0dder! :P
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