OEM SATA Drivers

[Guest William Cooper]

Hi

 

I have a HP Pavilion Desktop with SATA drive. I am trying to install XP but

obviously I need to press F6 to select Third party drivers. I have them of

course but it will only look to a floppy drive. I do not have a floppy

drive. Is there a workaround to this. apart from going to a museum and

borrowing one??

 

Thanx in advance

 

Help

[Guest Peter Foldes]

Re: OEM SATA Drivers

 

$15 at most computer shops . Did not reach the museum stage yet

 

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"William Cooper" <nospamregcooper@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:erIM5S9BJHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> Hi

>

> I have a HP Pavilion Desktop with SATA drive. I am trying to install XP but

> obviously I need to press F6 to select Third party drivers. I have them of

> course but it will only look to a floppy drive. I do not have a floppy

> drive. Is there a workaround to this. apart from going to a museum and

> borrowing one??

>

> Thanx in advance

>

> Help

>

>

[Guest JS]

Re: OEM SATA Drivers

 

How To: Slipstream your XP installation:

Covers how "you add RAID or Serial ATA controller drivers to your CD so you

won't need a floppy drive (or the F6 key) to install Windows. "

 

Also there is nLite:

http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html

 

Hopefully one of the two sites listed above will show how you can integrate

the SATA drivers into a slipstreamed XP install CD.

 

JS

http://www.pagestart.com

 

 

"William Cooper" <nospamregcooper@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:erIM5S9BJHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> Hi

>

> I have a HP Pavilion Desktop with SATA drive. I am trying to install XP

> but obviously I need to press F6 to select Third party drivers. I have

> them of course but it will only look to a floppy drive. I do not have a

> floppy drive. Is there a workaround to this. apart from going to a museum

> and borrowing one??

>

> Thanx in advance

>

> Help

>

[Guest Andrew E.]

RE: OEM SATA Drivers

 

Forget slipstreaming the drivers to xp cd,say youre MB gets fried tomorrow,

those drivers probably will do you no good on the new "diffrent MB"...Go to

a good,or not so good pc shop,you'll probably find 2 or more dozen used for

5.00 or so.A new one is 15-20.00

 

"William Cooper" wrote:

> Hi

>

> I have a HP Pavilion Desktop with SATA drive. I am trying to install XP but

> obviously I need to press F6 to select Third party drivers. I have them of

> course but it will only look to a floppy drive. I do not have a floppy

> drive. Is there a workaround to this. apart from going to a museum and

> borrowing one??

>

> Thanx in advance

>

> Help

>

>

>

[Guest M.I.5¾]

Re: OEM SATA Drivers

 

 

"William Cooper" <nospamregcooper@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:erIM5S9BJHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> Hi

>

> I have a HP Pavilion Desktop with SATA drive. I am trying to install XP

> but obviously I need to press F6 to select Third party drivers. I have

> them of course but it will only look to a floppy drive. I do not have a

> floppy drive. Is there a workaround to this. apart from going to a museum

> and borrowing one??

>

>

Short of slipstreaming the driver into the Windows installation disk, you

really have to load this from a floppy disk. If your BIOS has USB support

(it probably has) then it can be loaded from a USB floppy disk drive which

won't cost you more than £15-20. They haven't quite reached museum status

yet.

[Guest Twayne]

Re: OEM SATA Drivers

 

> How To: Slipstream your XP installation:

> Covers how "you add RAID or Serial ATA controller drivers to your CD

> so you won't need a floppy drive (or the F6 key) to install Windows. "

>

> Also there is nLite:

> http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html

>

> Hopefully one of the two sites listed above will show how you can

> integrate the SATA drivers into a slipstreamed XP install CD.

 

Possible: but plan to spend a LOT of time getting it to assemble

properly, and then try to figure out a way to test it before you need

it. A LOT of slipstreamed disks fail when something catastrophic

happens and they're really needed then, when it's too late to be testing

them. Do not test it on your production disk; use a spare drive or

computer.

That's a lot of work to keep from pressin the F6 key.

When everything works, then look into imaging backup software like

Ghost of True Image. Google for them.

 

HTH

 

>

> JS

> http://www.pagestart.com

>

>

> "William Cooper" <nospamregcooper@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> news:erIM5S9BJHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> Hi

>>

>> I have a HP Pavilion Desktop with SATA drive. I am trying to install

>> XP but obviously I need to press F6 to select Third party drivers. I

>> have them of course but it will only look to a floppy drive. I do

>> not have a floppy drive. Is there a workaround to this. apart from

>> going to a museum and borrowing one??

>>

>> Thanx in advance

>>

>> Help

[Guest Twayne]

Re: OEM SATA Drivers

 

> "William Cooper" <nospamregcooper@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> news:erIM5S9BJHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> Hi

>>

>> I have a HP Pavilion Desktop with SATA drive. I am trying to install

>> XP but obviously I need to press F6 to select Third party drivers. I

>> have them of course but it will only look to a floppy drive. I do

>> not have a floppy drive. Is there a workaround to this. apart from

>> going to a museum and borrowing one??

>>

>>

> Short of slipstreaming the driver into the Windows installation disk,

> you really have to load this from a floppy disk. If your BIOS has

> USB support (it probably has) then it can be loaded from a USB floppy

> disk drive which won't cost you more than £15-20. They haven't quite

> reached museum status yet.

 

Even external USB or parallel/serial port floppy drives have gotten

very cheap here in the US. Sorry to hear they're so high in the UK;

sympathies.

[Guest JS]

Re: OEM SATA Drivers

 

I use AutoStreamer, but then I have a floppy so a SATA drive would not be an

issue if I had one.

I already use Ghost and have a PC used for testing purposes.

 

JS

 

"Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message

news:%23h2GscGCJHA.1628@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> How To: Slipstream your XP installation:

>> Covers how "you add RAID or Serial ATA controller drivers to your CD

>> so you won't need a floppy drive (or the F6 key) to install Windows. "

>>

>> Also there is nLite:

>> http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html

>>

>> Hopefully one of the two sites listed above will show how you can

>> integrate the SATA drivers into a slipstreamed XP install CD.

>

> Possible: but plan to spend a LOT of time getting it to assemble

> properly, and then try to figure out a way to test it before you need it.

> A LOT of slipstreamed disks fail when something catastrophic happens and

> they're really needed then, when it's too late to be testing them. Do not

> test it on your production disk; use a spare drive or computer.

> That's a lot of work to keep from pressin the F6 key.

> When everything works, then look into imaging backup software like Ghost

> of True Image. Google for them.

>

> HTH

>

>

>>

>> JS

>> http://www.pagestart.com

>>

>>

>> "William Cooper" <nospamregcooper@hotmail.com> wrote in message

>> news:erIM5S9BJHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>>> Hi

>>>

>>> I have a HP Pavilion Desktop with SATA drive. I am trying to install

>>> XP but obviously I need to press F6 to select Third party drivers. I

>>> have them of course but it will only look to a floppy drive. I do

>>> not have a floppy drive. Is there a workaround to this. apart from

>>> going to a museum and borrowing one??

>>>

>>> Thanx in advance

>>>

>>> Help

>

>

>

[Guest John McGaw]

Re: OEM SATA Drivers

 

Twayne wrote:

>> How To: Slipstream your XP installation:

>> Covers how "you add RAID or Serial ATA controller drivers to your CD

>> so you won't need a floppy drive (or the F6 key) to install Windows. "

>>

>> Also there is nLite:

>> http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html

>>

>> Hopefully one of the two sites listed above will show how you can

>> integrate the SATA drivers into a slipstreamed XP install CD.

>

> Possible: but plan to spend a LOT of time getting it to assemble

> properly, and then try to figure out a way to test it before you need

> it. A LOT of slipstreamed disks fail when something catastrophic

> happens and they're really needed then, when it's too late to be testing

> them. Do not test it on your production disk; use a spare drive or

> computer.

> That's a lot of work to keep from pressin the F6 key.

> When everything works, then look into imaging backup software like

> Ghost of True Image. Google for them.

>

> HTH

>

>

>> JS

>> http://www.pagestart.com

>>

>>

>> "William Cooper" <nospamregcooper@hotmail.com> wrote in message

>> news:erIM5S9BJHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>>> Hi

>>>

>>> I have a HP Pavilion Desktop with SATA drive. I am trying to install

>>> XP but obviously I need to press F6 to select Third party drivers. I

>>> have them of course but it will only look to a floppy drive. I do

>>> not have a floppy drive. Is there a workaround to this. apart from

>>> going to a museum and borrowing one??

>>>

>>> Thanx in advance

>>>

>>> Help

>

>

>

 

 

 

nLite can create slipstreamed CDs in no time and I've never had one fail

yet. It is by far the easiest way I've found to do this potentially

day-killing job: http://www.nliteos.com/

 

John McGaw

http://johnmcgaw.com

[Guest William Cooper]

Re: OEM SATA Drivers

 

Hi

 

Okay I managed to get the machine to read a USB floppy drive, that I had

from a Dell Lap Top and can see the drivers and install them, but still XP

install does not see the drive. If I set the BIOS to drive type IDE it will

install and format and do this is without WD drivers... Goes blue screen

after reboot though...But it does not see the full capacity of the drive. It

reports 118 Gb. BIOS can see the drive and reports it is a Western Digital

WD3200AAKS size 320 Gb. I have been unable to find any SATA drivers

specifically for this drive on the WD site. I have run diagnostics on the

motherboard and all is Okay, I have latest BIOS version too.

 

Anyway I got the floppy working which was my original post so I will re

post. And yes slipstream can be a bitch....

 

Thanxs for your input.....

 

 

"William Cooper" <nospamregcooper@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:erIM5S9BJHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> Hi

>

> I have a HP Pavilion Desktop with SATA drive. I am trying to install XP

> but obviously I need to press F6 to select Third party drivers. I have

> them of course but it will only look to a floppy drive. I do not have a

> floppy drive. Is there a workaround to this. apart from going to a museum

> and borrowing one??

>

> Thanx in advance

>

> Help

>

[Guest Andy]

Re: OEM SATA Drivers

 

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:12:28 +0200, "William Cooper"

<nospamregcooper@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi

>

>Okay I managed to get the machine to read a USB floppy drive, that I had

>from a Dell Lap Top and can see the drivers and install them, but still XP

>install does not see the drive. If I set the BIOS to drive type IDE it will

>install and format and do this is without WD drivers... Goes blue screen

>after reboot though...But it does not see the full capacity of the drive. It

>reports 118 Gb. BIOS can see the drive and reports it is a Western Digital

>WD3200AAKS size 320 Gb. I have been unable to find any SATA drivers

>specifically for this drive on the WD site. I have run diagnostics on the

>motherboard and all is Okay, I have latest BIOS version too.

 

The Windows driver you need is not for the WD disk drive, but rather

for the SATA interface that is on the motherboard in the HP computer.

In other words, it doesn't matter who makes the disk drive; what

matters is who makes the SATA interface chip on the motherboard. You

get the SATA AHCI driver from the manufacturer of that interface chip.

>

>Anyway I got the floppy working which was my original post so I will re

>post. And yes slipstream can be a bitch....

>

>Thanxs for your input.....

>

>

>"William Cooper" <nospamregcooper@hotmail.com> wrote in message

>news:erIM5S9BJHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> Hi

>>

>> I have a HP Pavilion Desktop with SATA drive. I am trying to install XP

>> but obviously I need to press F6 to select Third party drivers. I have

>> them of course but it will only look to a floppy drive. I do not have a

>> floppy drive. Is there a workaround to this. apart from going to a museum

>> and borrowing one??

>>

>> Thanx in advance

>>

>> Help

>>

>

[Guest M.I.5¾]

Re: OEM SATA Drivers

 

 

"Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message

news:OVE44dGCJHA.4780@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

>> "William Cooper" <nospamregcooper@hotmail.com> wrote in message

>> news:erIM5S9BJHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>>> Hi

>>>

>>> I have a HP Pavilion Desktop with SATA drive. I am trying to install

>>> XP but obviously I need to press F6 to select Third party drivers. I

>>> have them of course but it will only look to a floppy drive. I do

>>> not have a floppy drive. Is there a workaround to this. apart from

>>> going to a museum and borrowing one??

>>>

>>>

>> Short of slipstreaming the driver into the Windows installation disk,

>> you really have to load this from a floppy disk. If your BIOS has

>> USB support (it probably has) then it can be loaded from a USB floppy

>> disk drive which won't cost you more than £15-20. They haven't quite

>> reached museum status yet.

>

> Even external USB or parallel/serial port floppy drives have gotten very

> cheap here in the US. Sorry to hear they're so high in the UK;

> sympathies.

 

Generally the numerical part of the price is the same. So anything that

costs $15 in the US costs £15 here. Having said that, I haven't bought one

in a while so it is possible that they may be had for even less on the 'net.

[Guest jklingler]

Re: OEM SATA Drivers

 

William Cooper wrote:

> Hi

>

> Okay I managed to get the machine to read a USB floppy drive, that I had

> from a Dell Lap Top and can see the drivers and install them, but still XP

> install does not see the drive. If I set the BIOS to drive type IDE it will

> install and format and do this is without WD drivers... Goes blue screen

> after reboot though...But it does not see the full capacity of the drive. It

> reports 118 Gb. BIOS can see the drive and reports it is a Western Digital

> WD3200AAKS size 320 Gb. I have been unable to find any SATA drivers

> specifically for this drive on the WD site. I have run diagnostics on the

> motherboard and all is Okay, I have latest BIOS version too.

>

> Anyway I got the floppy working which was my original post so I will re

> post. And yes slipstream can be a bitch....

>

> Thanxs for your input.....

>

>

> "William Cooper" <nospamregcooper@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> news:erIM5S9BJHA.2480@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> Hi

>>

>> I have a HP Pavilion Desktop with SATA drive. I am trying to install XP

>> but obviously I need to press F6 to select Third party drivers. I have

>> them of course but it will only look to a floppy drive. I do not have a

>> floppy drive. Is there a workaround to this. apart from going to a museum

>> and borrowing one??

>>

>> Thanx in advance

>>

>> Help

>>

>

>

I just recently installed slipstremed SP3/XP Pro on 2 computers.

Both have SATA 250gig hard drives. I didn't have to do anything but put

the disk in and let her rip. Set up the first partition from it and

installed,Then formatted the rest of the space from XP. I slipstreamed

with Nlite and didn't have to add any drivers or anything . Very simple

operation.