XP don't like SATA drives

It's just that I foresee a guessing session looming, whereby WE spend most of our time asking YOU questions until you give sufficient historical description for us to figure out what you've not yet done.

So, other than scratch around in your cranial follicles, what have you actually done so far?? ;)

Extract and Copy the SATA Drivers to a Floppy Disk. Boot from the XP CD and when prompted, press F6 to install the SATA drivers from the floppy disk. If you haven't a Floppy Drive Slipstream your XP installation with the SATA drivers.

How To: Slipstream your XP installation

Download nLite

http://home.midmaine.com/~nlite/nlite/nLite-1.4.8.installer.exe

These are the steps that I took

Download the Sata Drivers from the manufacturesrs web site.

Installed Nlite

Extracted Sata Drivers to a folder named Sata

Copied the entire XP CD to a folder named XPS

Ran Nlite and Browsed to the XPS folder, Next, next then selected Drivers and Bootable ISO click next

At the Drivers Tab click insert, single driver and navigate to the folder with the inf for windows XP.

Highlight it and select open and select next. Select Textmode driver and select the XP Sata driver and click OK.

Click next and Yes to apply changes, next and select Make ISO. Use Nero or similar to burn it to a CD.

Keep us informed as to your progress if you require further assistance.

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1). Put your motherboard drivers disk into your cd/dvd drive.
Make sure you have set your cd/dvd drive as "first boot" in your bios.
2). Boot your computer, and wait until you see the sata drivers list on your screen.
3). Select the 32 bit sata drivers.
4). Put in a floppy disk. (if it is not formatted you will be asked about this).
5). Click "enter" or "Y" for yes.
Now you have the sata drivers on the floppy, keep this ready.
7). Put in your Windows disk, when you see "press F6 for third party drivers", PRESS THE F6 KEY. and whack in your sata floppy that you made earlier, now Windows will copy the sata drivers into its kernel base code.
Now you should see that XP will be good from now on. :) Well nearly. :)

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