sata raid problem

[halfwayblaze]

I have the similar problem with having to install sata raid drivers for windows xp to install properly. I have an asus mobo, 250 gig sata drive, 3 ghz pentium. I made a drivedisk with a floppy in hopes it had all the drivers on it. I went to load it during the install of windows xp. I get a crazy error message.

"File\raide\180\winxp\sisraid.sys caused and unexpected error (18) at line 108 in d:\xpclient\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.

Where have I gone wrong. I'm at my whits end with the raid driver crap!!

thanks

[Jeremy]

The easiest way to do it would be to take your original XPCD (if you even have one), copy it to your HD (C:\XPCD) and use nLite to integrate your SATA drivers (the txtsetup.oem file will be needed to specify appropriate OS).

If you have a brand-name PC (Dell, Acer, etc) they will have a copy of Windows setup files in "C:\1386". If you have this, then you can browse to this location from within nLite.

[halfwayblaze]

I do have a copy of windows xp in oem. My computer is not a brand name but a build. I had a asus p4800 mobo that went bad on me. I bought a p4p800 and now I'm trying to repair the copy of xp on my hard drive that I used with the other board. I have some things I need off of it. I'm not yet trying to do a fresh install.

[Jeremy]

I bought a p4p800 and now I'm trying to repair the copy of xp on my hard drive that I used with the other board. I have some things I need off of it. I'm not yet trying to do a fresh install.

To repair the operating system with the new motherboard, you should be able to do a typical repair install, which doesn't delete any files at all.

As for getting data off the drive, you could put it in another PC as a slave drive and simply copy the files to the master drive or burn to CD/DVD.