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Ok, thanks for having tested it. The NVGTS.SYS is the name of the AHCI capable 32bit nForce S-ATA driver, the NVRD32.SYS file is the 32bit nForce RAID driver. All other files within the SATARAID and SATA_IDE driver folders are information files (with the extention .INF and .OEM) or co-installer files (with the extension .DLL). That's hard to believe.I am trying to explain: If you are using RAID (RAID enabled within the BIOS), you have to integrate the SATARAID driver folder as textmode driver. Maybe it's needed to additionally integrate the SATA_IDE driver folder as PnP driver, but the SATA_DE drivers alone wouldn't work with these BIOS settings. Other option: If the hdd containing the active partition (with MBR/bootloader) is set to "AHCI mode", you have to integrate the SATA_IDE driver folder as textmode. The SATARAID drivers are not able to detect the hdd drives, which are set to AHCI within the BIOS. If you want, try it again and upload the SETUPAPI.LOG file. Maybe I will find the reason for your troubles by having a look into that file. Although I do not yet know, what happened during your XP installation, the scenario (RAID has been successfully detected by the OS Setup, but the installation fails at last reboot) is not new for me. The common reason is the fact, that the Windows Setup do not trust the nForce S-ATA drivers. That is why the installation routine likes to replace the previously already loaded and successfully used nForce S-ATA driver by the wrong generic MS IDE drivers. During the hardware integration part of the Setup it installs at least the wrong "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" instead of the needed "NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller". Bad consequence: The user gets a BSOD at last reboot. Tip: You are able to see the exact error message, if you hit F8 while rebooting and choose the "Don't reboot at system failure" option. Regards Fernando

@ smokozuna: Welcome at MSFN Forums! Fine, that you succeeded with the installation of XP by using my guide. It makes me happy, that I could help you. Your friend Fernando

@ jdfox: Thank you for attaching the screenshot, which verifies, that you were right with the HardwareID's of the nForce S-ATA Controller.It's hard to believe, because all my papers show the DEV_07F8 as a RAID Controller and the DEV_07F8 is listed within the NVRD32.INF file (primarily responsable for the RAID driver) and not within the NVGTS.INF file, which is managing the installation of the S-ATA Controller driver. Anyway this doesn't explain why your hdd's were detected by the IDE drivers of the 20.08 set, whereas the other nForce IDE drivers (of the 15.23 set and my "NF4-7 Performance Pack" didn't see them. What I cannot understand is the fact, that only the nForce IDE driver version, which is part of NVIDIA's meanwhile pulled v20.08 driverpack, was able to detect your hard disk Controller. I am rather unsure how to help you, since you have already tried all usefull combinations: a ) integration of the SATA_IDE folder as TEXTMODE driver b ) integration of the SATARAID folder as TEXTMODE driver c ) integration of the SATARAID folder as TEXTMODE and additionally the SATA_IDE folder as PnP driver. Another idea: Download this package, unzip it and integrate the SATARAID folder into XP by using nLite and try to install XP. The package contains the native nForce S-ATA and RAID drivers v9.99.09, but all other files are taken from the 20.08 package, which obviously has been usable for you. If your hdd's should been detected, but the setup ends with endless reboots again, do the following: 1. After the Setup failure boot into Vista (by the way: how did you get it running again?) and look into the partition, where you have tried to get XP installed. 2. Open the WINDOWS directory and search for the files named SETUPERR.LOG and SETUPAPI.LOG. 3. Open the SETUPERR.LOG file with the editor and look, if you see any entries. 4. If you should find a file named SETUPAPI.LOG, zip it and upload it to RapidShare. I will have a look into it. Good night! Fernando

@ jdfox: Thanks for the HardwareID's. There is something curious about the HardwareID's of your "NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller". The "DEV-07F8" are the ones of the MCP73 RAID1 Controller, which is something else than the SATA Controller. Please check the HardwareID's of the NVIDIA S-ATA Controller again. By the way: 1. Have you already tried my updated nForce IDE drivers v9.99.09? 2. Please to not put your answer into a "CODE" box. Regards Fernando

@ jdfox: The additional HardwareID and the regional dll files do not effect the function of the driver, but any typo within the important parts of the INF and OEM files does it. Thanks again for having your heads up and finding the typos. Regards Fernando EDIT: Another idea: Run Vista, open the Device Manager and look for the HardwareID's of the devices NVIDIA nForce RAID Controller (within the "Storage Controllers" section) and "NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller" (either within the "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" or "Storage Controllers" section). You will get the HardwareID informations, if you right-click onto the device and the choose the "Properties" > "Details" > "Properties" > "HardwareID's" menue options. Do a screenshot or post the listed HardwareID's.

jdfox: After having done a deeper look into my Performance Packs, I found the reason why they didn't work for you. The HardwareID's of your NVIDIA Controllers were within the INF files, but not within the TXTSETUP.OEM file. As a consequence I have customized everything and I am very confident, that my updated "NF4-7 Performance Pack v5.0a" do support your nForce chipset too. Here is the download link of the 32bit version for Windows XP: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mgzlj2jyiiz Good luck! Fernando

@ jdfox: As I just have checked, the modded nForce IDE drivers v9.99.09 of my "NF4-7 Performance Pack" do contain all HardwareID's of the nForce IDE drivers v10.3.0.42, which are part of NVIDIA's 15.23/15.24 and 20.08 driver sets. So I don't see any reason, why the v10.3.0.42 drivers did detect your hdd's and the v9.99.09 not. Question: Are you sure, that you have integrated the SATA_IDE driver folder as PnP driver? I ask this, because the actual nForce SATA_IDE drivers contain a TXTSETUP.OEM file and nLite will automaticly enable the TEXTMODE option. You have to manually change it to PnP mode. Recommendations: Try to find out the reason for the endless reboots at the end of your test scenario "Case 3". You should hit F8 at reboot and choose the "Boot in safe mode" option. If you are able to run Windows XP this way, you may find the reason for your trouble within the Device Manager (yellow marks!). If you get a reboot again, hit F8 again and choose the "Don't reboot at system failure" option. This way you get the exact error message. Try to integrate just the SATARAID driver folder content of NVIDIA's driverpacks v15.23, 15.24 or 20.08 (they do contain exactly the same nForce IDE drivers) and - if you want - of my "NF4-7 Performance Pack" as TEXTMODE driver. Do not additionally integrate the SATA_IDE driver folder. Good luck! Fernando

You can't succeed with the F6/floppy method, if you are booting off a Windows OS CD, which has been prepared for an unattended installation.Look into the i386 directory of your OS CD. If you find a file named WINNT.SIF, you will not be able to get the OS installed by loading the textmode drivers via F6. Reason: Windows Setup looks for the WINNT.SIF file. If the file is present, it expects, that the needed SATA/RAID drivers have been integrated into the OS CD as textmode driver. This is irritating, because the Setup accepted the F6 drivers first of all, but afterwards it "forgets" them. Solution: You have either to boot off a clean (original) Windows OS CD (if you want to use the F6 option) or to create a new nLited OS CD with integrated textmode drivers. In the latter case you shouldn't hit F6 at all.

@ jdfox: Thanks for giving detailed informations. I am sorry, that I didn't check, that you have already posted your desktop name before. It is not easy to help you, because you obviously got the computer with the preinstalled Vista and didn't make your current RAID and BIOS settings yourself. Since Vista's Device Manager shows a "NVIDIA nForce RAID Controller", the associated S-ATA hdd has been set to RAID mode. What I cannot understand is the fact, that a ) your 2 hdd's obviously are not combined to a real RAID0 or RAID1 array (which would make sense) and b ) the "SATA Mode select" BIOS option has been disabled for all S-ATA ports (maybe this is the reason, why the "RAID mode" setting is greyed out. What do you mean with "I integrated the Sata drivers"? You should have integrated both devices/drivers, which had the suffix "(required)", when you got the textmode popup window.RAIDCLASS = "NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required)" BUSDRV = "NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required)" Before I am going to give you any further suggestions, I want to know, if you really want to stick with the current S-ATA settings (RAID enabled, but without the creation of any array). By the way: You hopefully know, that you will not be able to boot into Vista after having successfully installed Windows XP (reason: the XP installation will distroy the Vista bootloader). As a consequence you will have to rebuild the Vista bootloader anyway after having completed the XP installation. You can do it by booting off the Vista DVD and repairing the bootloader or doing it by running a tool like EasyBCD from within Windows XP.

@ jdfox: I can't help you without any informations about a ) your mainboard (name and nForce chipset version) and b ) your hdd configuration (S-ATA IDE mode, S-ATA RAID mode or S-ATA AHCI mode). If you don't know the details about your hdd configuration, you should run Vista, open the Device Manager and look for the Controllers within the "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" and "Storage Controllers" section.

Yes, but you will need a tool like UltraISO.Run the tool, open the XP ISO file, search for the WINNT.SIF file (you will find it within the i386 directory), edit it as you want and then save the modified ISO file again.

You can do what GrofLuigi proposed, but I am nearly sure, that your S-ATA hdd is connected with a NVIDIA nForce 630i S-ATA Controller. To verify that, you should either look into your mainboard manual or - if possible - run Vista and look into the "IDE ATA ATAPI Controllers" resp. "Storage Controllers" section of the Device Manager for a special Intel or NVIDIA S-ATA Controller. In this case I recommend to set the related S-ATA Controller to AHCI mode within the mainboard BIOS and to integrate the SATA_IDE driver folder of a suitable nForce chipset driver package (NVIDIA's official set v15.24 would be fine) as TEXTMODE driver to get your S-ATA disk detected. For further informations you should have a look into the "Tips for users with a non-Raid nForce S-ATA system" you can find within the Annex II part of this guide. If your S-ATA hdd should be connected with an Intel ICH8R SATA AHCI Controller, you have to integrate the 32bit Intel textmode driver according to my guide within the first post of this thread.

I didn't expext that, because you wrote, that you have only 2 hdd's, one of them with Vista and the other prepared for the XP installation. It makes no sence to enable RAID with this configuration.Anyhow this changes my previous suggestions (unless you should set the SATA Controllers to "AHCI Mode" within the BIOS, but this would have the consequence, that you won't be able anymore to boot into your currently installed Vista). As long as your SATA Controllers are set to "RAID" (which seems to be the case now) you have to integrate the SATARAID driver folder as TEXTMODE driver. It is not necessary to additionally integrate the SATA_IDE driver folder as PnP driver. You can take them both. If you take my "Performance Pack", you might get a better performance.

Why did you slipstream SP2? It would have been better to copy your original XP RTM or SP1 CD and slipstream SP3 by using nLite. You should not use these drivers, because your mainboard needs an AHCI supporting nForce SATA driver. Furthermore you obviously don't have a RAID array (Tip: You can check it easily by running Vista and looking into the "Storage Controllers" section of the Device Manager. If you don't see a device named "NVIDIA nForce RAID Controller", you are not running RAID).The nForce IDE drivers v6.99 should only be taken for nForce RAID systems and nForce chipsets, which are natively not supporting AHCI. Consequence: You have to use an nForce IDE driver version, which is fully supporting AHCI. Recommendation: You may take either NVIDIA's official nForce driverpack v15.24 (get it here) or the 32bit version of my "NF4-7 Performance Packs" (get it here). Unzip the package and integrate the SATA_IDE driver folder as textmode driver. General advice:Since you obviously are not running RAID (see above), the main part of my guide is not valid for you. All you need to read are the "Tips for users with a non-Raid nForce S-ATA system" within ANNEX II of my guide and especially the chapter "New and important for users with an AHCI capable mainboard". Here are the answers to your questions: 1. Since you obviously are not running RAID, the nVRaid BIOS version of your mainboard doesn't matter at all. 2. You can, but don't need to integrate any NVIDIA video driver. If you want do it nevertheless, you may take the Display Driver you find within this official nForce chipset driver package. Unzip it by using a tool like WinRAR or 7-Zip and integrate it as PnP driver. 3. You can integrate all drivers, which are suitable for your hardware, but I do not recommend it for newbees. My tip: Integrate just the needed NVIDIA nForce SATA_IDE driver folder as textmode driver and nothing else. Once XP is up, you can install all other drivers. 4. You are wrong. The integration of SP3 into the "Gold" (=RTM) version of Windows XP is what I have recommended. So take your original Windows XP CD (without any integrated Service Pack) as source and let nLite integrate SP3 as first step of its work. Good luck! Fernando

Since the Intel textmode driver download links within my guide are Intel's official ones, I doubt, that the original IASTOR.SYS file of the "STOR_all32_f6flpy32_8.6.0.1007_PV" package is corrupt. You usually get this message, when you have integrated a 64bit textmode driver into a 32bit OS or vice versa. The easiest way is to ask the vendor of the notebook or the Sony support. You should always take the newest one with the highest version number. Here is the link: ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/Win2k_...R1.17.43.05.zip

Which was the exact message you got? Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize it earlier, because I didn't have internet access for a while. those links dont work anymore and i need the 32 bit drivers. could you put another link to the drivers i need pleaseThanks for the information. I will update the links as soon as possible. Thank you very much for the link to the brandnew 32/64bit Intel textmode drivers and the complete Intel Matrix Storage Manager pack v8.6.0.1007. I will add them to my guide (first post of this thread).@ all users of my guide (first post of this thread): Since Intel has released the version 8.6.0.1007 of their Intel Matrix Storage Manager, I have just updated my guide with the links to these brandnew Intel textmode drivers dated 10/12/2008. Have fun! Fernando

@ juggler314: If you want help, you have to give some informations: 1. Which nForce chipset has your mainboard (if you don't know it, which mainboard/notebook are you using)? 2. Which OS do you want to install? 3. Which nForce IDE driver version (off which nForce chipset driver package) did you integrate? 4. Have you tried to install the OS by booting off the original MS CD without integrating or loading (F6) any drivers?

Haven't you seen this guide?

@ gopi02: You won't get any help by quoting my guide. Please delete the quoted text and write about your problem. CU Fernando

@ babuda: What do you want to express by just quoting the whole text of my guide (first post of this thread)? This doesn't make any sense for me and for the users. Please edit your post and delete the quoted text. Thanks! Fernando

No, that is obviously not possible.

Have you tried to boot in safe mode?If this doesn't work too, choose the F8 option "No reboot at system failure" to see the error message. Additional advice: Use a clean (untouched) source and let nLite just integrate the Intel textmode driver - no other drivers, no tweaks and no removals.

If you have read my guide, you will certainly heave seen this important information at the beginning:

Pass complete, no errors, press ESC to exit.It is very hard for me to help you, because you obviously don't know much about your hardware and BIOS settings and I don't can look over your shoulder.If you cannot get any help from a friend in your neighborhood, you should try to use the default BIOS settings and to boot off the original (untouched) OS CD. As long as you don't even know, if you are running RAID or AHCI, everything else doesn't make any sense. Please keep in mind, that I currently am far away from home for some weeks and that I only have internet connection from within an internet cafe. CU Fernando

The nForce IDE drivers of the 15.23 package are not working for all nForce RAID systems. Yes. That's a good advice.CU Fernando Which driver version and which folder did you integrate? Did you check your RAM by using memtest?