A little help pls.

~>Dg<~ · 14 Jun 2007 at 23:45

well just purchased a new hard drive
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-078-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=768
but im thinking may have a problem installing it . My lovely kids have been playing frisbee with my motherboard driver disc now unusable.will i be able to load a fresh copy of xp (only have sp1) on the sata 2 drive or will it need drivers.also i dont have a floppy or usb drive so whats best way round problem if thee is one.
Does anyone know where i can get a copy of my motherboard driver disc been looking everywhere cant find it board is a asus m2n mx.

Zefan · 14 Jun 2007 at 23:47

If it's XP with SP2 then it should install anyway, SP2 has loads of SATA drivers included.

:edit: Also click here , have a look through. Should be there somewhere.

~>Dg<~ · 14 Jun 2007 at 23:49

not got sp2 its sp1

Zefan · 14 Jun 2007 at 23:51

dgmug said:
not got sp2 its sp1

Hmmm it still might, give it a go. You'll soon know when it just doesn't detect your hard disk.

rpstewart · 15 Jun 2007 at 08:24

Zefan said:
If it's XP with SP2 then it should install anyway, SP2 has loads of SATA drivers included.

SP2 has no more disk controller drivers than any other version of XP. If you run a SATA drive in anything other than legacy IDE mode you'll need to supply drivers.

worthingsaxovtr · 15 Jun 2007 at 08:37

when i installed my new sata 2 hard drive,

plugged it in, bios detected it as sata due to sata cable

loaded windows xp sp1, then downloaded all drivers from mobo website,

you only need floppy driver if going to run it in raid

basmic · 15 Jun 2007 at 09:37

worthingsaxovtr said:
when i installed my new sata 2 hard drive,

plugged it in, bios detected it as sata due to sata cable

loaded windows xp sp1, then downloaded all drivers from mobo website,

you only need floppy driver if going to run it in raid

My SATA chipset (Intel 82801EB) needs drives from a floppy, and it's not running RAID.

~>Dg<~ · 15 Jun 2007 at 11:47

so if i get sp2 xp disc(not raiding)will it install?

Zefan · 15 Jun 2007 at 12:42

rpstewart said:
SP2 has no more disk controller drivers than any other version of XP. If you run a SATA drive in anything other than legacy IDE mode you'll need to supply drivers.

Funny, one version of XP I needed a floppy, another recognised it straight away.

Might be that I got it off a mate who'd slipstreamed the drivers in?

~>Dg<~ · 15 Jun 2007 at 13:32

might be stupid question but cant you just put it from a cd instead of floppy.

rpstewart · 15 Jun 2007 at 13:41

XP will only read extra drivers from a floppy although you can use nLite to slipstream them into the install CD itself so that they appear to be part of the base install.