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I need help installing XP on a SATA hard drive. I also don’t have a floppy drive. Will I need a floppy in order for the system to recognise the SATA drive? I have a motherboard (ASROCK Conroe esata2) support CD. How do I go abouts setting the SATA so I can then load windows XP?
Also, does anyone know of any tools I can use to check my cpu, board and graphics card temps?
Thank you
do a search for neowins guide to making a intergrated XP CD, you can add the sata drivers on the XP install to work around the lack of floppy..
or go spend a fiver on a floppy like i did as i couldnt be arsed using xplite to make a new cd..
I might as well borrow a floppy from a friend. Cheers for the info.
Also, Does anyone know of any good tools used to monitor cpu, board and graphics card temps?
sorry forgot about that..
http://www.lavalys.com/ look at everest :)
Just as an aside - nlite is great for integrating loadsa drivers into your Windows XP install. Can be used to create an unattended install too.
Don't know if this will help,but on the 2 conroe boards i recently installed winxp on i did'nt need to install the sata drivers for it to find and install winxp.
I really doubt you'll need extra drivers if you are installing a single SATA drive, you need additional drivers normally when you are installing a RAID system and want to use an onboard RAID controller (the drivers for which would normally be on your mobo disk anyway). Not everything works as expected though :)
There should be a SATA port or two that will work in the installation without a floppy, check the motherboard manual it should say in there
Hmn... I did an install of XP x64 last night and it didn't ask me for any SATA drivers?