This has probably been asked a 1000 times but

*FLASH* · 6 Aug 2006 at 10:43

How do you manage to install a Windows XP on a SATA drive if you diont have a floppy to install the drivers at startup?

sja360 · 6 Aug 2006 at 11:27

cant you load the sata driver from cd?

Ratbag · 6 Aug 2006 at 11:46

Or slipstream SP2 as it includes the required drivers.

*FLASH* · 6 Aug 2006 at 11:50

Ratbag said:
Or slipstream SP2 as it includes the required drivers.

hows do you do that mate?

*FLASH* · 6 Aug 2006 at 12:02

sja360 said:
cant you load the sata driver from cd?

No it asks for A drive only

doran1801 · 6 Aug 2006 at 12:02

have a look at this site. you can download a program that can make a slipstreamed xp disk for you
http://www.nliteos.com/

basmic · 6 Aug 2006 at 12:03

Do you have a USB disk?

Most BIOS will allow a USB disk to be recognised by the system as floppy drive, or hard drive.

Trigger · 6 Aug 2006 at 12:24

Or download nLite and slipstream the drivers into it

*FLASH* · 6 Aug 2006 at 18:38

Trigger said:
Or download nLite and slipstream the drivers into it

I take it slipstream means integrate the drivers into the install. well if so its still not working

doran1801 · 6 Aug 2006 at 19:59

i have just recently used nlite to make a splipstreamed xp install disk and it all worked fine installing itself onto a sata drive. did you follow guideline fully?

Trigger · 6 Aug 2006 at 21:11

*FLASH* said:
I take it slipstream means integrate the drivers into the install. well if so its still not working

Slipstream SP2 into it as well and that should solve your problems

*FLASH* · 6 Aug 2006 at 23:37

Trigger said:
Slipstream SP2 into it as well and that should solve your problems

Am I doing this right,

i copy my Windows CD to the HDD. Tell Nlite where that is. Add my sata drivers using integrate drivers. Then when it runs it copies over the files I copied to the HDD and I back these up onto another disk and use that.

Trigger · 6 Aug 2006 at 23:47

Yeah, pretty much

You'll need an SP2 executable as well to integrate that and then you will need to create an ISO as the output and burn that to a CD with something like Nero

*FLASH* · 6 Aug 2006 at 23:48

Trigger said:
Yeah, pretty much You'll need an SP2 executable as well to integrate that and then you will need to create an ISO as the output and burn that to a CD with something like Nero

Even if my windows disk is already SP2?

unknowndomain · 7 Aug 2006 at 00:06

bledd · 7 Aug 2006 at 07:54

Ratbag said:
Or slipstream SP2 as it includes the required drivers.

hardly!

use nlite to slipstream sp2, and integrate your sata driver

Trigger · 7 Aug 2006 at 08:11

*FLASH* said:
Even if my windows disk is already SP2?

Oh sorry, I thought I'd read somewhere that yours was an XP SP1 disk- must have been another thread

In that case then, just integrate the SATA drivers

*FLASH* · 7 Aug 2006 at 08:26

doesnt seem to be working Ive made an ISO burnt it and tried to install and it still doesnt see my HDD

Trigger · 7 Aug 2006 at 08:36

EDIT: Ignore me, I'm answering a different thread

bledd · 7 Aug 2006 at 10:47

that means you havn't integrated the right SATA driver

what motherboard or chipset are you running?
i'll download the driver for you, extract it and upload it to my site