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

OzZie

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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. :)
 
Easy. You need nLite, XP CD, sata driver files (unpacked if in a zip file or other).

Run nLite and choose the drivers option and the bootable ISO as well. Then using nLite select the drivers and click OK. nLite will insert the drivers and then let you specify some options before making a bootable ISO for you. Then using Imgburn, burn the ISO to a CD and voila. :)
 
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. :o
 
Er if you've integrated the SATA driver I don't think you need to press F6. F6 is only for drivers not already in Windows. You've integrated the SATA drivers into XP so F6 shouldn't be needed.
 
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 said:
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.
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Sounds like you have installed a non text mode driver. In order for devices to be installed and show up during windows setup the driver needs to be a text mode driver. nLite should ask you if its txt mode or not.
 
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.
 
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