How easy is it to slipstream SATA drivers onto a XP image using Nlite?

OzZie · 29 Jan 2008 at 17:00

I'll keep it nice and short.

My brother has bought a new SATA HDD and got rid of his old IDE HDD. However, upon loading of XP it doesn't recognise it. However, he doesn't have a floppy drive and so i dont think there is any other way of of installing XP apart from using Nlite to create a new bootable disk with the sata drivers on. (or buy vista)

Is this easy to do? His has a basic OEM version of XP Home if that makes any difference. Unfortunatly i've never used this program and so i wouldn't know how to use it, but i will pass the information on.

The SATA drivers are on his mobo CD (somewhere)

Thanks.

OzZie · 1 Feb 2008 at 13:20

That wierd.

I followed the guide and comments posted here, went to install windows but it didnt detect the SATA drive at all. So i dug out an old floppy and put the drivers on there, pressed F6, selected the drive i wished to install (something like Fastrrack 378 WinXP) but still it doesnt show up in the following menu's

Using an old IDE drive for now.

OzZie · 1 Feb 2008 at 13:40

What happened was that i am trying to install Windows XP on the SATA drive, but it doesn't show up in the Windows selection screen, when it asks you which HDD you wish to install it to. I thought that having the SATA drivers on the XP disk would mean that it would automatically detect the HDD (like Vista does) but it doesnt. So i used my old XP CD and tried the floppy and F6 route, but that didnt allow the HDD to show up either, even though it does appear that a device is there once the floppy has done its thing. The only positive thing i've seen is that when windows has done installing (Nlite created CD) that the HDD does show up without me having to do anything, but of course to do that i have to use an old IDE to get me started.

OzZie · 4 Mar 2008 at 17:35

Ive copied virtually all the the SATA,RAID and other drivers that i thought were relavant onto a new NiteCD, and this time, i got a driver (text mode or something) appear. However, it is a Windows2003 driver by name, and im not sure if there is an official XP driver or whether this one will work, but ill try anyhow.

Motherboard is a Asus A8V Deluxe rev2 if anyone could find me the correct driver, that would be great.