Need help with XP install on SATA.

[Isy]

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

[GoNz0]

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..

[Isy]

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?

[GoNz0]

sorry forgot about that..

http://www.lavalys.com/ look at everest

[Splash]

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.

[invalidpagefaul]

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.

[TamDigital]

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

[Mr Pants]

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

[chrisg22]

Hmn... I did an install of XP x64 last night and it didn't ask me for any SATA drivers?