Windows XP sata drivers

[Ninja_Ferret]

I have an old PC lying around that I have not got round to selling as the last time I used it I corrupted the hard drive so I thought no problem just a simple reinstall as I was going to do a clean install anyway, So I was prompted to insert the sata drivers, no problem I thought I have them on a floppy like they wanted. But now my trouble starts as the floppy disk was also corrupt and I cant find the sata drivers for floppy. Every body suggests using the original windows xp disk to create a new disk with the sata drivers on although I am loathed to do this in case i corrupt the windows disk as well.

Is there a simple way I so please tell me.

 

[marc2003]

go in the bios and put it in legacy/ide mode and not AHCI. then you won't need sata drivers.

 

[Ninja_Ferret]

I tried that and it did not seem to work, maybe my hard drive went altogether

 

[robinbredin]

There is a Intel driver you can put in when installing XP by pressing F6. Can't remember where it is now, maybe some one will help you out.

 

[Ninja_Ferret]

I have now found the drivers for my mobo so I will try that now.

 

[bledd]

Use driverpacks.Net to slipstream sata (mass storage) drivers into your xp cd

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

create a new disk with the sata drivers on although I am loathed to do this in case i corrupt the windows disk as well.

As mentioned above by Bledd, just slipstream in the drivers and create a new installation disk. You won't in any way affect the original disk, you'll just be creating a new image of it with the drivers pre-installed.

 

[bledd]

The method is..

Copy your disc to say.. C:\XPCD\

Follow the driverpack instructions and point it at that DIR

 

[Ninja_Ferret]

My windows disk is a 64bit when I tried it said unable due to something not being 64bit
EDIT iaStor.sys is not compatible with a x64 based version of windows

 

[Ninja_Ferret]

I used this tutorial