A Friend wants me to put XP on her current laptop that has Vista. After copying all the files it says can't find the hard drive.. I was going to take it out and use my USB interface to format it first then I realized it was a SATA drive and XP doesn't have any native drivers.
So I need a way to load the drivers in dos mode. I downloaded an image that creates a bootable CD. It might load the driver then I may be able to put the XP CD in and type "D:\setup.exe" Any ideas? Basically the F6 option only allows you to load 3rd party drivers from a floppy but this laptop has no floppy.
If you can find the sata/raid controller drivers for that particular laptop, you can use a program called nlite. I've used this nifty program before and it works well. It's been a while but I know I was able to pre-load my raid/sata controller drivers using nlite.
It basically makes a new XP (and now vista)install disk with preloaded sata/raid controller drivers. As I recall, you can even type in your CD key and all the personal crap XP ask you during the install process.
You can even select which options to leave out during the install.
I had a flash drive plugged in one time when I was trying to load XP but the computer crashed. Sony had already told her not to plug anything into it while loading. I'm thinking it crashed cus the drivers for the flash drive were Windows only. Does the XP disk load real time(DOS) drivers for a USB floppy drive?
According to this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916196 Not all USB Floppy drivers are compatible with XP at install. What brands have you used at "Install" time that XP installation CD will have drivers for?
Yea I got that Sting but I need the real mode drivers to get that to work and I'm waiting on a reply from Sony now. I have the .exe but I need the actual driver. Anyone know an easy way to decompile an exe?
Yea I got that Sting but I need the real mode drivers to get that to work and I'm waiting on a reply from Sony now. I have the .exe but I need the actual driver. Anyone know an easy way to decompile an exe?
That sucks, you know which raid controller she has?
no not raid controller. I need SATA controller drivers. I have no idea. I know it has Intel controller chips so I'm guess it's part of them. The bad part is the drivers from Intel wont install. Says not the right hardware so apparently Sony has modified them in some way and you have to use their drivers. I don't understand why it's not in the BIOS chip. That would make it easy. :)
How Can I Load SATA Drivers When Installing XP????
Posted - Sep 22 2008 : 15:16:20
