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Title: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: Power to people on Friday, August 13, 2010, 10:53:44 To build a laptop to XP not using the manufacturers restore disk (as it is Vista) and using a standard XP CD you obviously need the Sata drivers to see the hard drive, are there universal drivers or does it have to be manufacturer specific ? - I'm assuming you just extract them to CD and then F6 at the relevant point and swap CD's for drivers and then swap back once driver is loaded ?
I should really know this !! Title: Re: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: Barry Scott on Friday, August 13, 2010, 10:59:51 I had this problem before. I used nlite and created a custom iso adding the raid drivers into my new iso. I'm not completely sure you can add them as you say, or maybe mine were on a floppy? I can't be completely sure, but using nlite and creating your own ISO is a piece of piss.
EDIT: Although that's clearly longer if you can simply insert a disk as you would think! :) Title: Re: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: Peter Venkman on Friday, August 13, 2010, 11:20:49 When I have had this problem in the past I have disabled AHCI disk drive
In BIOS > Integrated peripherals OnChip Serial ATA - Enabled SATA Mode - IDE Onboard H/W Serial ATA - Enabled Try these first as its trying to recognise the drive as AHCI and not IDE. Title: Re: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: magicroundabout on Friday, August 13, 2010, 11:21:24 you need a floppy drive to instal 3rd party raid/sata drivers but do as Barry said and create your own CD with them pre installed. i did this on monday and it really is a piece of piss.
Title: Re: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: Barry Scott on Friday, August 13, 2010, 11:30:16 On a related note, I downloaded a stremalined verison of XP SP3, a only 180mb! That is some mega trimming! :)
Title: Re: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: Peter Venkman on Friday, August 13, 2010, 11:59:20 On a related note, I downloaded a stremalined verison of XP SP3, a only 180mb! That is some mega trimming! :) Oh sounds good, I am after an installation of XP sp3 to fit on my little usb stick. Was that a torrent Barry? Title: Re: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: Power to people on Friday, August 13, 2010, 12:53:26 So do you have to create this from a installation of XP or does it just pick it up from the XP cd if you point it and then point it to the relevant drivers for Sata, video, chipset etc
Title: Re: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: stfcinbmth on Friday, August 13, 2010, 13:43:19 Last XP is pretty good
Title: Re: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: Simon Pieman on Friday, August 13, 2010, 13:48:17 If you have an installation cd then use nlite to create a new one as mentioned. You just need to add the drivers in within nlite's options and it will create a new iso to burn to cd including the added drivers.
When you use the installation cd created from nlite it will install XP along with the drivers automatically, no need to do the F6 option. So it will appear to be no different to a normal install. Title: Re: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: Power to people on Friday, August 13, 2010, 14:29:08 The installation CD is Vista and I want to put XP onto the laptop
Title: Re: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: Barry Scott on Friday, August 13, 2010, 14:50:23 Oh sounds good, I am after an installation of XP sp3 to fit on my little usb stick. Was that a torrent Barry? No I found it on a site somewhere, it was just a rapidshare or megaupload link or something. I forget where to be honest, but I've just found the ISO and it's called XP Lite. I'll see if I can find the DL link for you and send you a pm. Also there was another one kicking around called TinyXP and that's only 55MB! Supposed to be crazy fast. :D Title: Re: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: Power to people on Friday, August 13, 2010, 14:52:38 No I found it on a site somewhere, it was just a rapidshare or megaupload link or something. I forget where to be honest, but I've just found the ISO and it's called XP Lite. I'll see if I can find the DL link for you and send you a pm. Also there was another one kicking around called TinyXP and that's only 55MB! Supposed to be crazy fast. :D And me..... Title: Re: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: Peter Venkman on Friday, August 13, 2010, 14:58:02 No I found it on a site somewhere, it was just a rapidshare or megaupload link or something. I forget where to be honest, but I've just found the ISO and it's called XP Lite. I'll see if I can find the DL link for you and send you a pm. Also there was another one kicking around called TinyXP and that's only 55MB! Supposed to be crazy fast. :D Cheers Barry :) Title: Re: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: stfcinbmth on Friday, August 13, 2010, 17:03:08 I'll pm you some links JJ
Title: Re: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: Simon Pieman on Friday, August 13, 2010, 17:45:03 The installation CD is Vista and I want to put XP onto the laptop Assumed you had an XP disc because that's what you were talking about. You'll need a license or a dodgy license key then. Title: Re: Laptop Sata drivers Post by: Power to people on Monday, August 16, 2010, 12:52:38 Assumed you had an XP disc because that's what you were talking about. You'll need a license or a dodgy license key then. I've got a licence key not worried about that - going to create a xp cd for one of the work laptops and give it a try before I do it for the home laptop ;) That's me sorted for the afternoon then ;D |