Installing XP on a Dell machine - SATA Driver error

Ideo

Following on from this thread, and some googling, I discovered that XP doesn't have RAID Drivers to manage SATA HDDs on installation!

So, I need to install the drivers RAID driver at the same time as installation of XP and was just wondering if any members here actually managed this?

I tried using nLite, got the drivers from the Dell website and made an ISO of XP but it wouldn't work. And I desperately want to go back to XP!

Any suggestions? Help? Words of opinion?

Dell service tag on the machine is 319QK2J. Don't have a floppy drive so was hoping to use the nLite route. It's just the Intel - Driver matrix storage manager that I need, right?

corkcomp

Ideo wrote: »

Following on from this thread, and some googling, I discovered that XP doesn't have RAID Drivers to manage SATA HDDs on installation!

So, I need to install the drivers RAID driver at the same time as installation of XP and was just wondering if any members here actually managed this?

I tried using nLite, got the drivers from the Dell website and made an ISO of XP but it wouldn't work. And I desperately want to go back to XP!

Any suggestions? Help? Words of opinion?

Dell service tag on the machine is 319QK2J. Don't have a floppy drive so was hoping to use the nLite route. It's just the Intel - Driver matrix storage manager that I need, right?

didnt have time to open the links you posted man but usual procedure is to press F6 at the beginning of XP install, it prompts you to install third party scsi or raid drivers and then put in your disk - can you get your hands on an external floppy drive maybe?

slowlydownwards

Did manage to do it few years back, but only because I had usb floppy drive at hand...

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unnameduser

as mentioned easiest way to do so is using a floppy containing the drivers,
2nd easiest is to slipstream the drivers using nlite. I have done so lots of times. Should be fairly straight forward tbh.
When you got the drivers from the Dell website did you slipstream the INF files?
I would get the driver from the website of the hard drive manufacturer. IE Seagate, maxtor or whoever. Stick with it.

What dell machine is it?

On another note if you really cant get over this issue some bios will let you change hard drive mode from sata to IDE mode to overcome this.

The_Thing

...any members here actually managed this?

I did, last week-end as it happens:

[1] Download the full version of Service Pack 3 for XP - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5B33B5A8-5E76-401F-BE08-1E1555D4F3D4&displaylang=en and save it to the root of your C:\ drive

[2] Download \ Install nLite.

[3] Create a folder on the root of your C:\ drive and copy the entire contents of your XP disc over to that same folder. Before doing so in Windows Explorer select "View Hidden Files" - this is to ensure that you don't miss any hidden files that may be on your XP disc.

[4] I have attached to this post the generic Intel drivers referenced on the nLite site. Extract these files to somewhere easy to find - another folder on the root of your C:\ drive for example.

[5] Fire up nLite and point it at the folder containg the copy of your XP disc.
On the "Task Selection" screen select "Service Pack", "Drivers", and "Bootable ISO" and then work your way throught the rest of the Wizard.

If all goes to plan you should end up with a an *.ISO of around 660 MB that you can burn to a CD-R which will include the necessary drivers as well as Service Pack 3 and a new era of installing XP will be opened up to you.

My own reason for making an nLite copy of XP was because the XP image disc that came supplied with my Toshiba laptop was loaded with all sorts of crap that I didn't want fouling up my machine.

As I said in part [4] above I used the Generic Intel drivers mentioned on the nLIte site and they seemed to work OK.

Let us know how you get on.

Regards,

The Thing.

shanemort

Looking at your service Tag on Dells Site you dont have RAID. You need to change the sata mode to AHCI mode in the BIOS for the installation of XP then once loaded with all the chip set and all dell drivers change it back (Or leave it still runs fine)

Ideo

@ The_Thing, thanks a mill for your post, will look at it in detail now.

@ Shanemort, are you sure? When I go into BIOS it's telling me RAID is on and when I turn it off the computer won't boot!