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    XP and Sata drives

    Hi I am doing a new build again, first time in a while.
    Has Windows XP started recognising Sata drives from the install and if so which version. I cant recall doing it with Windows XP Service Pack 2 and there was a lot of fussing with installing drivers.

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    Re: XP and Sata drives

    I believe you still need to hit F6 when it witters about SCSI/Third Party drivers and feed it the relevant disk(ette) or else create your own XP install with the relevant SATA drivers slipstreamed in, which is a bit of a faff. Keeping the driver disk handy is usually easier and it does only take a few minutes. And here is a handy guide to building your own install disk.

    My inner cynic suspects that MS didn't update the XP installer to provide one more push behind Vista, which has a much nicer install process.
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    Re: XP and Sata drives

    I've never had to install Sata drivers, Only if i needed to install raid.

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    Re: XP and Sata drives

    You only need additional drivers if you really want all the AHCI functionality (e.g. hot-swap drives), or RAID. Most BIOSes default to IDE emulation, which requires no drivers at all. You get all the SATA bandwidth (which is what most people want), without any of the fuss.

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    Re: XP and Sata drives

    XP SP2 includes a number of SATA drivers out of the box (e.g. SiI3112, a few generations of nforce SATA), but not all

    and pre-sp2, you get nothing

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    Re: XP and Sata drives

    Best to slipstream the drivers for your controller using nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows installation .

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    Re: XP and Sata drives

    I spent some time trying nLite once. It crashed out on me a couple of times whilst using it, but in general I was well impressed with how easy it was to use, and basically how it just made sense. Then, after spending fair amount of time getting everything in I wanted, and building an unattended install disk, it just totally didn't work when it came to installation time.

    Guess I was unluckly/stupid somehow. I'll try it again one day, but it has put me off what otherwise looked like an awesome app.

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    Re: XP and Sata drives

    If you go a bit mad and remove/disable too much then problems are likely to occur. I just use it for the basic slipstreaming of updates/drivers and a few tweaks.

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