Trying to install first SATA hard drive. OS: windows XP SP3 I just got a new 500 GB Samsung SATA hard drive, which I plan on using for storage. My current hard drive is a 250 GB seagate IDE drive that has the OS on it. This is my first SATA drive. I also...

that setup program does not see the SATA drive. Is there a way I can get around this w/o having a floppy drive. If not, how do I do this with a floppy drive? Secondly, I would like to install a dual boot system with XP Pro as well as XP Pro x64 (actually...

Floppy drive problem. Ok, this drive is getting on my nerves. I'm trying to install a SATA driver, so I can install windows in my new SATA drive, but the floppy is not working right. Here's the thing, I pulled it from my old system since I don't have another...

floppy drive. Find the SATA drivers or even go to nVidia's site and see if they have SATA drivers for the 630i board, and download them and put them on your FLASH DRIVE and/or floppy drive. During install of Win XP, when it asks if you need to load any drivers,...

AHCI drive. What is an AHCI drive. I have a new motherboard (ASUS M378-VM) that has five SATA ports - SATA 1 (Red in connector) SATA 2 (Red) SATA 3 (RED) SATA 4 (Black) and SATA 5 (Black). The store manager told me that it would control five SATA hard drives,...

is a SATA Floppy Disk Creator. ROFLMAO, and the machine has no floppy drive, but comes with a Floppy disk creator!, Go figure that one guys! LOL Does DELL load the SATA files from an external USB Floppy Drive, and it shows up as the A:\>Drive? There...

can i install sata drivers without a floppy drive?. when i first installed windows and what not i had a floppy drive installed. i need to do a windows repair and to do so i need to install these external sata drivers for my hard drives. i do not have access...

is no disk in the drive) Unknown Disk (there is no disk in the drive) Both of which worked perfectly fine before formatting the drive. And they also work fine under linux, its the WinXP install that is having the problem finding the drives. Even the...

No hard disk" error on XP install (SATA). My notebook came installed with Vista, which of course had to go. When trying to install XP I received a "no hard disk" error. The HD in the laptop is a SATA drive, hence the error. As the laptop doesn't have a floppy...

SATA Boot drive NOT!. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers () SATA Boot drive NOT! Actually that's only half true. As long as there's no major malfunction it boots fine from that drive. After the floppy disaster I spent the day setting...