wristdirect Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Okay, I know there are questions all the time about how to install XP on a SATA drive. However, every answer I have come by is assuming there are SATA drivers on their motherboard's CD. My motherboard, however, came with built-in raid support, and therefore there is no driver for SATA drives to install during my XP installation. Any help? I could really use it >< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thinkster Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Whats the Brand/Model of the motherboard? Why can't you use IDE Hard Drive (PATA)? A lot less headaches with the well established IDE/PATA drives... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaqie Fox Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 To install SATA support (including SATA RAID cards) in XP you must have a floppy with the SATA RAID drivers for your SATA RAID card on it in .inf form. There are probably readmes on your driver CD for how to create that floppy if it didn't come with the floppy already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wristdirect Posted December 5, 2006 Author Share Posted December 5, 2006 (edited) Whats the Brand/Model of the motherboard? Why can't you use IDE Hard Drive (PATA)? A lot less headaches with the well established IDE/PATA drives...okay, new problem. I actually saw this before reading your reply here and realized that could be it, so yeah, you were right. but the new problem is that I cant get back to Vista now. I am running XP x64 version right now on one of my 100GB drives (the other 100GB has random music etc), and I have Vista on my raided 160GBs (all these drives i mentioned are SATA). For some reason, I cant boot off of the raided 160s to get on vista anymore. it tells me to select a proper boot device. I cant remember how I set my raided 160s as being a boot drive. how do i do this? oh, btw, my motherboard is an ASUS P5W DH Deluxeand thanks again alledit: oh thinkster, nvm, i misread what you were saying. but either way, i have the hard drives i have, and im not buying new ones at this point lol Edited December 5, 2006 by wristdirect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wristdirect Posted December 6, 2006 Author Share Posted December 6, 2006 bump? can anyone help me out? i have no clue whats goin wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gratz Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 (edited) Dont know if I can help but I have a asus p5ad2 premium board and have raid drivers load without intervention in a unattended installi have 4 sata disks using raid 1 + 0 ie 2 striped then mirroredIs this what you require?just re reading your last post if your sata raid disk is not being recognised you need to go into the bios and set the raid disk as the boot diskwhat raid are you using? 1,0,5 etc Edited December 6, 2006 by gratz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drazick Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 I think slipstreaming those drivers will solve the problem.Use nLite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wristdirect Posted December 8, 2006 Author Share Posted December 8, 2006 hmm. well first off, im doing raid 0 on the 160s. but when i put that raided "drive" on the top of my harddrive list, and try to boot off of it, i get an error telling me to pick a proper boot device. Drazick, I'm not totally sure what slipstreaming or nLite are, but I'll look into it. Thanks guys. I'll post back when I try all this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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