SATA Setup

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I will be installing a new SATA Hard Drive on a P4P800 mainboard, with SATA
enabled in the bios, Win XP should find it okay???

Thanks
 
If it's going to be the harddrive that the OS is on you're going to have to
install the SATA controller driver from a floppy during Windows installation
when it asks you if you want to install any 3rd Party Drivers.
 
no you will need the win XP SATA drivers on an OEM format floppy as
mentioned by the previous poster.
 
In message <<[email protected]>> "Paul H"
no you will need the win XP SATA drivers on an OEM format floppy as
mentioned by the previous poster.
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Out of curiosity, is there any way to trick XP into looking at
flashdrives or CD drives rather then the floppy at this stage of the
install?

The reason I ask, I'm trying to go floppyless on most my systems, but I
haven't found any trick to install XP or 2000/2003 server without a
floppy on any RAID or SATA enabled systems.
 
DevilsPGD said:
In message <<[email protected]>> "Paul H"


Out of curiosity, is there any way to trick XP into looking at
flashdrives or CD drives rather then the floppy at this stage of the
install?

The reason I ask, I'm trying to go floppyless on most my systems, but
I haven't found any trick to install XP or 2000/2003 server without a
floppy on any RAID or SATA enabled systems.
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I've heard this question asked before but so far haven't seen a reply that
suggests you can use anything other than a floppy.

Maybe just temporarilly connect a floppy for set up? After all, you only
need it the once.
 
In message <<[email protected]>> "~misfit~"
I've heard this question asked before but so far haven't seen a reply that
suggests you can use anything other than a floppy.

Maybe just temporarilly connect a floppy for set up? After all, you only
need it the once.
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Plus emergencies -- For that reason, I like to have everything required
to rebuild a system physically installed, or on top of the hardware or
workbench. That includes OS reinstall disks, and a quick list of IPs,
minimum software requirements, special partitioning instructions, etc.

The last thing I need is to be in a panic trying to rebuild one or more
failed machines and have my only floppy drive/cable/whatever get damaged
somehow, or find out it "just doesn't work"

It just feels wrong to require a floppy -- I can boot from a CD, I can
boot from a flash drive -- I can format a flash drive and install on it,
why can't I load a driver from the flash drive?

I'm almost curious if you can slipstream a SCSI/RAID driver into the
installer? I've never poked at slipstreaming before, but I should
probably add that to my "to be researched" list.
 
I will be installing a new SATA Hard Drive on a P4P800 mainboard, with SATA
enabled in the bios, Win XP should find it okay???

Thanks
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I am astonished at the hooey that goes unchallenged as gospel on this
ng.

Win XP will find it just fine.

YOU DO NOT NEED ANY FLOPPY DRIVER TO INSTALL WIN XP SP1 on SATA.

I am running a single SATA drive, no EIDE drives, on an Intel
D865PERL. The XP SP1 CD installed and then booted the system
partition on the SATA drive with NO ISSUES whatsoever. I believe, but
cannot warranty, that this is also the case for XP (SP0).

You only need the F6 diskette to load the RAID driver.

AFTER you install XP on your SATA, there is a MS service pack:

Q812415_WXP_SP2_X86_EN.exe

that you might want to install.

HTH, KC
 
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