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If you have done what I had recommended, there is only 1 explanation: The driver has been integrated into the XP x64 CD, which you had used as source.Questions: 1. Is there a file named WINNT.SIF within the i386 or AMD64 directory of your "original" XP x64 CD? If yes, which is the content of the file (open it with the Editor)? 2. Is there a file named NVRAID.SYS or NVRAID.SY_ within the AMD64 directory of the OS CD?

@ scstrato: Welcome at MSFN Forums! The driver named "NVRAID.SYS" is neither a Windows XP x64 in-box driver nor part of the "64bit nForce SATARAID drivers v9.99.09 mod by Fernando". The error message shows, that you have done something wrong (by using an already customized Windows XP x64 version as source, by integrating a wrong driver or by trying to "upgrade" a 32bit OS with a 64it OS).Furthermore it is not possible to slipstream a 64bit version of a Service Pack into a 64bit Windows OS from within a 32bit environment. This is what I recommend to do: Verify, that your Windows XP x64 SP1 CD, which you are using as source, is an original (= untouched) one. If you should find a file named WINNT.SIF within the source CD, you can be sure, that it is not an original Windows OS image. If you have verified, that your OS source is clean, run nLite and do nothing more than to integrate the "64bit nForce SATARAID drivers v9.99.09 mod by Fernando" as textmode driver and to create the ISO file with the integrated drivers. Don't integrate the SP2 and don't choose the "Unattended install" option. Boot off the just created CD and choose a fresh installation. Let the XP x64 Setup do a quick format of the partition, where you want to get XP x64 installed. Once XP x64 SP1 is up, you can run the SP2 EXE file. This way you should be able to get XP x64 SP2 installed onto the computer of your friend. Good luck! Regards Fernando

You obviously got the boot sector with the Master Boot Record (MBR) installed onto the wrong storage device.Solution: 1. Enter the BIOS and check the boot options. The CD/DVD drive should be the first bootable device, but the second should be your SATA hdd, where you got Windows XP installed. 2. Remove all USB sticks and extern hdd's, if you should have connected any of them. 3. Boot off the original Windows XP CD and choose the "Repair" option. Your currently XP installation will not be touched, only the MBR will be freshly created onto the correct place. Regards Fernando

@ matains: Welcome at MSFN Forums! Try to remove the USB stick while Windows XP Setup is rebooting the first time. Which settings have you done? Which Intel textmode driver did you integrate and which Controllers did you enable whiduring the integrating procedure?Regards Fernando

What do you expect from my side? I have neither developed nor touched the drivers themselves. Furthermore all users should keep in their mind, that the chipset manufacturers like Intel and NVIDIA do develop drivers for really existing hardware and not for Virtual PC's.

@ espensh: Welcome at MSFN Forums! This is what I suggest for you: Integrate the Service Pack 3 into your original XP SP1 CD - as Kelsenellenelvian already wrote. There is no need to integrate any driver. Downlad and unzip an nForce chipset driverpack, which is suitable for nForce4 AMD chipset mainboards, for example the one you get >here<. Enter the BIOS of your brother's PC and DISABLE the RAID option. Reasons:It doesn't make sense to run 1 single hdd in RAID mode. There is no need to integrate any TEXTMODE driver, if the SATA hdd is running in IDE Mode (RAID disabled). [*]Boot off the XP CD with integrated SP3 and install Windows XP. [*]Once Windows XP is up, run the installer (SETUP.EXE) of the nForce chipset driverpack. Good luck! Fernando @ Kelsenellenelvian: The nForce RAID driver you have linked will not work at all with nForce4 RAID systems, because the absolutely needed SATA driver INF file (NVATA.INF or NVATABUS.INF) is missing. The Windows XP Setup will not be able to install the OS onto a "LEGACY Mode" nForce4 RAID system (with the ability to support SataRAID and PataRAID simultaneously), unless there are separate INF files for both SATA and RAID drivers present.

Maybethe partition table of your hdd is corrupt.Solution: Either do a low vevel format by using a tool like KillDisk or boot off a Linux live CD/DVD like Ubuntu and format the hdd from within the Linux distribution. This should be impossible, because the original Windows XP (32/64bit) doesn't have any in-box AHCI driver.I suspect, that you either didnt use an untouched = original OS CD or didn't enable the AHCI Mode of the in-use SATA Controller (where your hdd is connected).

@ asdf1234: Welcome at MSFN Forums! Enter the BIOS and check the "HARD DISK BOOT PRIORITY" settings. The hdd, where you want to get the OS installed, should be on the top.Good luck! Fernando

@ Iceman1: Welcome at MSFN Forums! If you have used the unattended install option of nLite, you usually have to integrate the needed textmode driver and should not load them via F6/floppy.This is not an nLite issue. If the OS Setup detects a file named WINNT.SIF (it contains the informations regarding the unattended install), it expects all needed textmode drivers within the OS media. The driverpacks method (look >here<) would be the better option than trying to integrate all possible textmode drivers into the OS CD by using a tool like nLite. Furthermore the use of nLite is only allowed for private and not for business purposes.Regards Fernando

@ AhmedKayihan: More than 600.000 users of my guide succeeded at least with the XP 32/64bit installation onto their Intel AHCI or RAID system after having integrated the suitable textmode driver into the OS by using the tool nLite. So there should be no doubt, that both the procedure and the linked drivers do really work for everyone. If your XP x64 failed nevertheless, I can only see 3 possible reasons: You did not exactly follow my guide. You have integrated the wrong textmode driver. Little side note: your mainboard has an Intel ICH10R Southbridge and Intel SATA RAID Controllers, but additionally Marvell SAS RAID ports. If you have created a Marvell RAID, you should have integrated the suitable Marvell RAID driver and not the Intel one. You tried to get XP x64 installed by booting off an USB/SATA connected optical drive (CD/DVD-ROM), which does not work in RAID mode. To solve this problem you should either boot off an IDE connected optical drive or by doing the following: Create a bootable USB stick (you will find how-to's after having done a google search for this method) and extract the XP x64 ISO file with the integrated RAID driver onto the prepared USB stick. Then start the XP x64 installation by booting off the USB stick (precondition: correct BIOS setting regarding the bootable devices). Good luck! Fernando

my first cd only had the Intel® ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO/5 WHQL one, and because it didnt work (BSOD with 0x0000007b error), my 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc cd's ended up having all of the drivers.You should create a new XP CD with just the correctly integrated 64bit Intel RAID driver by using an untouched source.

You should not integrate all AHCI and RAID drivers, but just the one you need. If you have integrated the Intel RST textmode driver v9.6.0.1014, you have to enable only the "Intel® ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO/5 Series/3400 Series SATA RAID Controller".Here is my question again: Which driver (version, WHQL/modded) did you integrate? I repeat my question: Is there a file named WINNT.SIF within the XP x64 CD you used as source? That was not a good idea. The only thing you should integrate is the Intel textmode driver. All the other things are not necessary, but may interfer the processing negatively.

@ AhmedKayihan: Welcome at MSFN Forums! If you really want help, you should give me some additional informations:Please let us know the chipset and the Southbridge of your system. Alternatively you can post the vendor and the name of the computer or mainboard. Are you running your SATA hdd('s) in AHCI or in RAID Mode? Which Windows XP x64 Pro version (without SP = SP0, with integrated SP1 or SP2?) was on your USB drive, when you tried to get the OS installed? Did you slipstream any drivers into the XP x64 image? If yes, which ones? Most important are the vendor and the version of the integrated drivers. Where did you get the Windows XP Professional x64 version from? Did you really use an original (=untouched) OS as source? Which drivers have been loaded? If you are running your SATA hdd('s) in AHCI or RAID mode, they will not be detected by the Windows XP x64 Setup, unless you have loaded (F6) or integrated the suitable AHCI or RAID textmode driver.If you really didn't load or integrate any textmode driver, then you obviously used no original (=untouched) OS as source. You can easily verify it by having a look into the AMD64 directory of your XP x64 source. If you will see a file named WINNT.SIF, the OS has already been customized by you or someone else. If you are not able to send me a PM from within the MSFN Forums (I cannot understand why), you can send me an eMail (most frequent used address: fernando@win-lite.de).Regards Fernando

No, the new RST AHCI and RAID drivers are running fine after having been integrated into a Windows XP CD and installed onto a real (not a virtual) system running in AHCI or RAID Mode. This is not the usual consequence of using the new Intel RST driver.Please give us some informations about your hardware (Southbridge details of your mainboard), your SATA settings (IDE, AHCI or RAID) and a short report about what you have done and what happened. Regards Fernando

@ MaxikingWolke22: Welcome at MSFN Forums! Your problem has nothing to with the NVIDIA nForce SATA and RAID drivers. Assuming that the BIOS and the Windows XP Setup did recognize the complete RAID array size, you should run the Disk Management of your OS and look for the different partitions resp. volumes. It is very easy to create new partitions, to format them and to give them a letter (D:, E: etc.) and a name. After having done that, you will see all partitions within "My Computer" and the Windows Explorer. Regards Fernando

Upon your request I have reuploaded these specially modified 32/64bit versions of the Intel MSM driver v8.9.0.1023 to MediaFire.Here are the links: 32bit Intel textmode driver v8.9.0.1023 mod by Fernando 64bit Intel tectmode driver v8.9.0.1023 mod by Fernando Good luck! Fernando

Since I doubt, that your old Dell Latitude C840 with its Intel ICH3-M Southbridge has any on-board SATA Controller and a SATA AHCI or RAID Controller less than ever, your problem seems to be totally off topic.You probably do not have to load (F6) or integrate any S-ATA or P-ATA textmode driver. Maybe your system just needs a Processor to AGP Controller driver or something else. You will find some approproiate drivers >here<. I am sorry, but I am not able to help you. You should have read just my guide (=first post of this thread). There you get all needed up-to-date informations regarding the integration of Intel's AHCI and RAID drivers into a Windows XP CD by using nLite. As you already found out, this is the nLite and not the Windows PE Forum.The driver integration into a WinPE image works totally different than the driver integration into a Windows XP CD. Furthermore you are not abe to use nLite, if you want to slipstream a WinPE CD. Please post your problem within >this< or any other PE Builder Forum. Regards Fernando

@ cdob: Thanks for your heads up and for your quick work-around. @ filantrop: Cdob is right. The reg file entries were published by him within page 79 of this thread, but obviously the lines were cut by the CODE box. Consequence for you: If you have already downloaded the previous version of the file named "reg file for nForce AHCI systems.rar", you have to combine the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE lines before you are going to execute the reg file. To make it easier for you and possibly other future users, I have corrected this mistake and reuploaded the file. So if you use the new file, you don't need to edit anything. Please report here, if you did succeed with the IDE/AHCI switch or not. Good luck! Fernando

@ filantrop: I am sorry, but I don't have this nForce_720a_AHCI.zip file anymore. Nevertheless you may try to run this file: reg file for nForce AHCI systems.rar The procedure is very important: 1. Do a backup of all important data. 2. Copy the file named NVGTS.SYS of the appropriate nForce chipset driver set into the WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS folder of your OS partition. 3. Unzip the downloaded attachment and run the REG file. 4. Reboot and enter the BIOS. 5. Enable AHCI, save the new BIOS settings and reboot. 6. When you get the "Found new hardware" message, stop the installation procedure, run the installer of the appropriate nForce chipset driverpack and choose just the "MediaShield"/"Storage Driver" option. Good luck! Fernando

It may either be a driver or a Windows 2000 SP4 issue.By the way: Many users reported about the same problem with the generic MS AHCI driver under Windows 7. Their system hdd was shown in the systray as "Safely removable hardware". As long as your RAIDed hdd's are within the PC case and not connected via USB, nothing will happen. Yes, a separate RAID adapter card would be a better choice than the on-board NVIDIA nForce RAID Controllers, but I personally have never had any severe problem with my NVIDIA nForce4 RAID systems.

Fine, that you succeeded at least. 1. You should never try to unplug any of the RAIDed hdd's unless the power of the system is completely off.2. My recommendation: Let the RAID array be a "basic disk". Since I am working with different RAID arrays I have always used Acronis TrueImage.All the best to you! Fernando

If you are really searching for Intel ICH3M textmode drivers for Windows XP, I wish you good luck. I didn't find them, not even at Intel's download pages.I bet, that something else is responsable for your issue. Regards Fernando

Why do you think, that your hdd is not detected, if you just get the cursor pending on the black screen? You certainly would need to load or integrate a textmode driver, if you would get a message, that XP Setup didn't detect any hard disk drive,. There is no need to load (F6) or integrate any textmode driver unless your SATA Controller, where the hdd is connected, has been set to RAID (what I cannot believe). Windows XP SP3 Setup is able to detect any SATA hdd, except when the SATA Controller has been set to AHCI (is not supported by ICH3M chipsets) or RAID mode. In both cases you would not even be able to get any usual "Windows Sweet" version installed.

Yes, you should do that. No, nothing will happen with the already installed nForce SATA and RAID drivers, because they are the same. You should nevertheless check the MediaShield (IDE/Storage Driver) option to get the RAIDTOOL installed, if you want to have access to the MediaShield Console from within the OS. Good luck! Fernando

@ Treeant34: Welcome at MSFN Forums! The problems you got were caused by loading the wrong driver folder. Windows 2000 Setup (as Windows XP) needs the nForce SATA information file (NVATABUS.INF or NVATA.INF) to get the nForce SataRAID drivers properly installed. That is why you will never succeed by just loading or integrating the SATARAID driver folder. Yes, this method will work with Windows 2000 SP4 too.The W2k IDE drivers of the nForce chipset driver set 6.86 are a good choice for your nForce4 RAID system, if you want to get Windows 2000 installed. When you are going to prepare the W2k boot-CD with integrated nForce SATA and RAID drivers, you have at least 2 options: integration of the IDE\Win2K\LEGACY folder content as textmode driver or integration of the IDE\Win2K\SATARAID folder content as TEXTMODE driver and additionally the IDE\Win2K\SATA_IDE folder content as PnP driver. Whatever option you choose, you will not recognize any difference regarding the stability and the performance of your RAID system. The advantage of the second option is, that the nForce SATA and RAID drivers of your W2K installation will be digitally signed by Microsoft (WHQL certified). Good luck! Fernando