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    Installing Windows XP with SATA RAID PCI Card

    Looking for a bit of help with this if at all possible gents.

    One of my mates who lives down the road has an oldish AMD Socket 939 PC. the background behind it is the motherboard was originally mine some two years ago or so. Anyway the sata controller on the motherboard has failed, and I suggested he buy himself a SATA pci card so he didn't have to buy a complete new PC as his wife would kill him.

    Anyway the card turned up yesterday and ofcourse his Windows XP CD doesn't have support for the sata card built in (genuine XP Pro OEM) we tried the floppy disc drive option by pressing F6 but his floppy drive is something like 15 years old, and not used for at least 6 years and now all it does corrupt floppies.

    I've tried an nLited version of his XP with the raid drivers slipped into them, but that now makes his XP non genuine and won't pass WGA because a vbs script file and a file called wap.bat are now missing from the route of C:\ (I tried this using a virtual machine so know that will get the same problem when doing it with a live system)

    The only thing I can think of is taking his hard drive and putting it in my PC and doing the text based setup on my PC and then before the guided graphical setup starts shut down and put his drive back in his PC, but don't want to go down that road yet if I can sort it another way.

    Anyone else got any idwas on this ?

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    Re: Installing Windows XP with SATA RAID PCI Card

    No spare floppy drives kicking about?

    If not, another pass with nlite.. and disable stripping options is your only alternative.
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