you're not adding any SATA drives, you shouldn't need to load the SATA drivers, but I would do so any in the event in case you decide to add a SATA drive down the road. You state you're getting the MSC error booting from a floppy, does the XP OS load w/o the...

device drivers before they will work. Unless you know how to load Windows directly via such SATA ports, you're much better off to go with the "native" SATA ports when installing Windows. "Native" SATA ports are those which are wired to Intel's ICH10R...

later add a SATA unit, you can install SATA drivers in Windows and have the BIOS treat the SATA drive as a native SATA device. With the driver running Windows has no problem using it for data. BUT that only works because Windows loads first, then loads drivers,...

Help!. I have a Compaq Prescario SR5710F. It has a 320 gig sata hd, a dvd/cd burner, 4 gigs of ram with windows vista 32bit. I changed the 240w powersupply to a 550w and added a radeon hd 4670 video card. I wanted to add a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 200gb SATA...

XP installation disc. Do the following: [*]First, get the RAID driver . [*]Get . [*]Extract the content of your Windows XP CD-ROM into a folder in your HDD. [*]Load the Windows XP folder with nLite and insert the drivers with it. Be sure to make it bootable....

Windows installation (that you don't have to press F6), you need to modify the file called Txtsetup.sif in Windows XP CD (it contains all drivers that Windows Setup going to load when it initializes) by adding an entry for your SATA controller. Making XP CD...

from a smaller PATA to a larger SATA harddrive. I imagine that Windows XP will have problems doing this. My plan was to add the SATA drive, image the PATA to SATA using True Image 8, then change the BIOS to boot from the SATA drive, and finally remove...

at the bottom of your sent message: > OK, a couple of problems. First of all, since I'm using a sata drive, >windows setup looks and doesn't see any harddrives to install windows> to, so it just stops right there. And I can, in theory, load the sata...

strategies? The mixed-mode problems go away if you use Linux for every box on the LAN. I just upgraded my wife from Windows "me" to Fedora, and my trouble-ticket load has gone to near zero. :-) While it's nice to have everything online, rotating magnetic...