installing xp on a sata drive

i've allways thought this was no bid deal...just download the drivers and put them on a usb flash device....guess its not that simple...where do i get them, and how do i get to use them when i dont have a floppy....
im on a toshiba x205 by the way....

superjorn

 

Use nLite and slipstream the drivers into a new XP disc.

 

i had this very same problem trying to install xp on my laptop, even when i got the right drivers and used a pendrive or a cd it wouldn't work. I found the best way to do it is use nlite to implement the drivers you need straight into the windows install cd. this worked flawlessly for me. you dont even ned to press F6 for aditional drivers it just works on its own

 

hmm...so i need to slipstream...ok...but where do i get the drivers? isn't there a way to disable sata in bios...i couldnt find it...

 

There should be an option to disable it in the BIOS, though it won't specifically say like "disable SATA"; from previous experience, it'll probably a switch between "ATA" and "AHCI".

 

Edited 12:14 AM 10/17/07
When I initially posted my comment below, I erroneously quoted from messages #1 and 2 above. These two quotes are those and I am leaving them here to provide context to the two subsequent messages (#7 and 8) which CORRECTLY took me to task for my comment!!!!

These are the two messages I SHOULD have quoted and hopefully make my comment have at least a modicum of sense to it now. Sorry for the confusion! We now take you back to your regularly scheduled thread already in progress.

But if you do this, you will not have full speed access to the hard drive. The whole point of having SATA is the speed.

Gary

 

Where the Hell did you get that from?
You can't install WinXp on a SATA hard drive without disabling SATA or slipstreaming the driver.

 

Er, you don't lose anything. What happens is simply that you put the SATA driver on the cd itself, so you don't need to use a floppy or usb stick when installing.

(Also, there is no speed benefit from using SATA. No harddrive is fast enough to use the bandwidth offered by IDE/PATA, so there's absolutely nothing to be gained performance-wise from using SATA instead)

Anyway, where do you get the drivers? From the manufacturer.
On a laptop, check the laptop's manufacturer's website.
On a desktop, check the manufacturer of the motherboard chipset.

 

Oops! Sorry! I intended to quote messages 4 and 5 from this thread and instead I quoted 1 and 2. Mea culpa! Mea maxima culpa!

Gary

P.S. I'll clean up the post so some poor soul doesn't get the wrong idea and make note of the original quotes so your two messages have the proper context. Jeesh I really have to start proofreading the quotes not just my own typing. ...big ol' grin...

 

Then what benefit is there to even having SATA? This is interesting, I was under the impression (mistaken obviously) that SATA was all about a speed improvement.

Gary

 

Smaller, nicer cable (better airflow in your case, and I believe more flexible cable length)
And of course, having the extra bandwidth means it can handle future disks too (15k rpm harddrives, which atm at SCSI only, would be impractical on IDE, but could work on SATA)

And then a couple of new features:
SATA can (if the disk and motherboard support it) handle hotplugging (connecting/disconnecting the drive while your computer is running), as well as NCQ (which reorders read/write commands for the drive so it performs better under heavy load, mostly useful on servers), and... a few other things.

Mostly, it's just more convenient to use (feature-wise, where it's adopted most features from the server-oriented SCSI), and physically, with smaller connectors and cables), but it doesn't usually perform better.

 

1. try to use a windows XP Service pack 2. I have the same problem in a toshiba laptop last month.
2. if it doesn't work. use nlite, load the drivers using nlite. how to see and find the drivers? use the device manager of windows to find the driver name and just google it.
I have the same problem also when i installed a windows xp (dual boot) in my latituded630 with windows vista.

 

Thanks for clarifying that. So then for folks who are struggling with an XP install and can switch modes in the BIOS, that is probably the best way to handle this. That, of course, assumes they are not setting up a dual boot where Vista (or another OS) is already on the machine using SATA. Is there any downside to NOT using SATA and switching modes at the BIOS level?

Gary