October 23, 200718 yr I have a machine with Vista pre-installed. I installed XP into another partition for dual-boot. XP would not install or run unless I set the SATA drive in the BIOS to ATA mode. But Vista does not run in this mode. So I have to go into the BIOS every time I switch to a different OS.I used nLite to slipstream the SATA driver but XP still doesn't run in SATA mode. I suspect that XP did not install the driver because it didn't see a SATA drive.I don't have a floppy drive so I can't use the F6 method of loading the driver when installing.Is it possible to add the SATA driver to the drivers that are loaded at the beginning of an install?
October 23, 200718 yr I used nLite to slipstream the SATA driver but XP still doesn't run in SATA mode. I suspect that XP did not install the driver because it didn't see a SATA drive.What chipset does your motherboard have?... and which S-ATA driver did you integrate using nLite?Is it possible to add the SATA driver to the drivers that are loaded at the beginning of an install?You have to integrate the S-ATA driver as TEXTMODE driver. A TXTSETUP.OEM file is needed within the driver folder.
October 23, 200718 yr Are you sure that it´s (just) the driver ?http://www.jsifaq.com/SF/Tips/Tip.aspx?id=10807A vista/ xp dualboot is always tricky, since vista uses a differnt kind of bootloader.Sorry the link above is the only english one I found.All the others are in german on winhelpline.Agi
October 23, 200718 yr Author You have to integrate the S-ATA driver as TEXTMODE driver. A TXTSETUP.OEM file is needed within the driver folder.I've seen a few guides that do that and I didn't understand why. I guess I know now.
October 23, 200718 yr Author In Vista Device Manager the controller is listed as Intel 82801HR/HH/HO SATA RAID Controller. When inserting the textmode driver in nLite I choose the only Intel 82801HR option available. XP still crashed after loading drivers.So I then added two generic controllers listed and it worked.It sure would be helpful for testing this stuff if the BIOS could boot from an ISO.
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