thinking about getting a 76gb raptor for my set up,this will be the only hd in my system when installing xp will i have to install any drivers beforehand?
thanks.
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thinking about getting a 76gb raptor for my set up,this will be the only hd in my system when installing xp will i have to install any drivers beforehand?
thanks.
you will need a driver for your sata controller on a floppy. press f6 at the early point in the xp installer you're asked to do so, feed it your floppy.
If the sata controller is not part of the mobo chipset then you will need drivers on a floppy.
Copy them to the floppy (make sure they're not in a folder just on the disk) and when installing press f6 when it prompts during the setup. after a short while it come to a screen where you can point it at the drivers and proceed.
It's a good idea to have a disk on standby anyway even if the sata is part of the mobo chipset as people have sometimes been having problems.
It's situations like this which make me keep a floppy still in this day and age.
theres a floppy that came with my mobo (dfi nf4 ultra d).
sata raid driver disk
nvidia nf4
silicon image 3114
rev.1.0
will that be the one to use?
Yep
If I just bought a SATA drive as a third HDD (already have 2 IDE's), I'm assuming all I have to plug it in and away I go!?
wouldnt you be better off having the sata as your boot drive and the ide for storage?
Why, how much faster would it boot up? :)