Clean install of XPP on a SATA Drive

philjayj

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Hi

I have just bought a HP NX6310. It came pre-loaded with XP but I want to reformat the drive and reinstall windows (primarily to get rid of all the crap that came pre-installed).

The problem I have is that when i start the fresh install from a bootable CD, i am told that the system has no hard drives installed.

How can I fix this? I have been told I need a Floppy drive (which i dont have), is there a way around this?

Thanks

Phil
 
because your trying to boot windows from the harddrive,

go into your bios, and set your dvd to boot first. that way when you come to do fresh install it loads from there, just make when it says press any key to boot from cd... you do ;)

trust me, i spent all day yestaday doing windows installing 10+ times, stupid blue screens! :P
 
::: CooliceT :: said:
because your trying to boot windows from the harddrive,

go into your bios, and set your dvd to boot first. that way when you come to do fresh install it loads from there, just make when it says press any key to boot from cd... you do ;)

trust me, i spent all day yestaday doing windows installing 10+ times, stupid blue screens! :P
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no, its beacuse he doesn't have the driver installed for SATA.

bear with me, finding a tool now


-edit, use this tool

first copy your XP disc to C:\XPCD, then use this tool on it, then use nlite to create a bootable cd

http://rapidshare.com/files/17388777/RAID_Slipstreamer_v3.0_BETA_1.exe

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^sure it looks nasty, but its awesome, it slipstreams all of these drivers into your XP disc

Raid Slipstreamer v3.x supports the following Mass Storage Devices:

*** denotes drivers newly added or updated

• Adaptec Ultra320 / IBM ServeRAID 7e SCSI Controller (2000/XP/2003)
• Adaptec 39160 Family SCSI Controller (2000/2003)
• Adaptec PERC 2, 2/Si, 3/Si, 3/Di SCSI Controller (2000/2003)
• Adaptec AIC-94xx/ASC-44xxx/ASC-48xxx/ASC-58xxx / IBM ServeRAID 8e SAS/SATA Controller (2000/XP/2003) ***
• Adaptec 20xx/21xx/22xx/24xx/26xx/28xx/ICP90X4R0 SCSI/RAID Controller (2000/XP/2003) ***
• Dell/Adaptec CERC2s Embedded SATA HOSTRAID Controller (2000/XP/2003)
• IBM ServeRAID 8i/8k/8k-l/8s SAS Controller (2000/XP/2003) ***
• IBM ServeRAID 4M/4Mx/4L/4Lx/5i/6M/6i/7k Controller (2000/2003)
• NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA RAID Controller (XP)
• NVIDIA nForce 430/410/550/570/590/MCP61 Serial ATA Controller (2000/XP)
• NVIDIA nForce4 MCP51/55 SATA/PATA Controller (2000/XP)
• LSI Logic Perc 3/4 Series RAID Controller (2000/2003)
• LSI Logic SAS 5e/5i/5iR/6iR/1020/1030/1035/1064/1064E/1068/1068E/1078 (2000/XP/2003) ***
• LSI Logic Perc 5e/5i Raid Controller (2000/2003) ***
• QLogic QL40xx iSCSI 1Gbps Controller (2000/XP/2003) ***
• QLogic QLA23xx/QLA24xx 2Gbps/4Gbps Fiber Channel HBAs (2000/XP/2003) ***
• Promise ULTRA 33/66/100/133 TX2 Controller (2000/XP/2003)
• Promise FastTrak 376 / 378 Controller (2000/XP/2003)
• Dell SAS 5x / LSI Logic Fusion-MPT SAS RAID Controller (2003)
• Intel 82801FBM/FR/GHM/GR/GH/GBM/HR/HH/HO/631xESB/632xESB AHCI/SATA/RAID Controller (2000/XP/2003) ***
• Silicon Image SiI 3112 / ATI 436E/4379/437A SATA RAID Controller (2000/XP/2003) ***
• INITIO INIC162x SATA RAID Controller (2000/XP/2003) ***
• VIA VT82xx/64xx/CX700/VX700 SATA RAID Controller (2000/XP/2003) ***
• ATi AHCI RAID Controller (2000/XP/2003) ***
• SiS 1184/1185 AHCI/RAID Controller (2000/XP/2003) ***
• VMware Virtual Ultra320 SCSI Controller (2000/XP/2003)
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nice :)

nlite is an awesome tool, you can use the ryanvm update pack, to slipstream windows updates into the disc too, and do component removals, driver additions, unattended setup
 
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