Dragos Jijau your method works flawlessly, I have a laptop that doesn't have a floppy drive which made it impossible to install XP, I followed your method and created a XP disk with integrated drivers for my ATA drives and it found my drives without a problem. Great job Dragos. Thanks for the info.

Immortilus

THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You were an answer to many hours of pain.

i created the customized version of win xp adding the SATA driver without any problem. When I will install xp, what i've got to do? the system will recognize automatically the right driver o i will have to do something else?

i have try the method you describe but i have a few problem regarding the usb driver. after i intergrated the sata driver, i found out that the usb driver in my windows installation had a problem. for example, every time i plug in a usb device, i need to install its driver, even a usb mouse. can u help me with this?

Really informative and detailed instruction and ive managed to achieve everything except it still won't load. My problem is i think i'm not including the right driver, i have a fujitsu siemens amilo pro v8210, when i go to the fujitsu site and download the driver it comes as an exe which i install but then where do i find the driver? i've looked in the programmes folders but i think i'm missing something glaringly obvious. I'd be really grateful for any help as this has so far taken me 10 cds and endless hours of frustration

Thanks to this Post I was able to solve may Issues that have been Haunting me regarding Newer Laptops.

Thank you for this post and Thank you to the nLite team.

Grate work!

XP should install fine on SATA drives provided you dont enable AHCI or RAID in the Bios.
A much easier method & less complicated.

You have just resolved a dilema I have had for several years: changing from Windoze to Linux. I have installed OS's on PC's since the dawn of time but this SATA problem is the final straw. Forcing an expensive upgrade to Vista because only it supports SATA is blackmail. That's it... I've officially joined the Revolution! Where's my penguin suit?

Big thanks, i doubt i would have managed to dual boot my new pc without your article. The trickiest part was finding the specific driver to use. 10 out of 10.

AWESOME!

Worked perfectly, I also incorporated SP3, So Cool and I burned it onto a DVD...

Very Nice!

Hello.Thanks for your method.But i have an issue. When I boot the new windows CD with Sata drivers,an error apears when charging the final step.What can I do?
Thanks.

After tearing my hair out, I stumbled upon this excellent article.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Mwah!

Dragos Jijau Thanks it worked perfect. A helpful piece of advice -Make sure to use text mode when intergrating the drivers! Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some times details make the difference... Thanks for this Precious Detail on saving as text... I was going crazy as i was doing the different way till i read your opinion. Thanks again to all...and a little message to vista...YOU SUCK VISTA!

OK, not to be a dolt, but how do I use text mode when integrating drivers? I didn't see any option for that- my drivers for a vaio vgn automatically load pnp, not giving me the option to find any kind of a text mode.

THX!

If you don't get the option for text mode, then you don't have the correct drivers. I know it's a pain, I just made about 7 cd coasters trying to locate the correct ones. I believe that there will be a txtsetup.oem in the directory when you have drivers that will load in txt mode.

dash ur comment was short was very useful .....infact very very very useful.......i went thru a stash of writables because cud nop use textmode until i discovered thatTXTSETUP.OEM file in the drivers
I still cudnt access the textmode.....what u have to do is put the file in the same folder as the (***.inf) file for it to be recognised and enable textmode.....hepe this is helpful to some1 else.....

Thanks Dragos.

Your guide worked excellent.
I have a Lifebook S7110 and it worked perfect.

i've exactly the same problem:
Lifebook S7110 XP Professional WD1600BEVS
(or it can be replaced by WD1200BEVS if the 160Gb
Scorpio's driver would be a problem);

however, the installation process description is somewhat summarily about "getting, unpacking, and installing SATA drivers" - there are none (or at least I'm just too blind to find them) on the WD download pages,
from where you've found yours (I do assume that Fuijtsu is installing WD Scorpios into their's Lifebook S series, but perhaps it has been done by my local vendor)

any halp will be much appreciated

Hey Dragos,

I did exactly the same and was able to create an ISO image of the widnows-xp with SATA drivers (i have Lifebook 8020D) but lifebook does not recognize this CD.

Meaning with the original windows CD it would atleast ask to install/repair/quit and then error out saying that hard disk not found.

But with this CD it does not even ask for installation or anything. It directly goes and loads Ubuntu (this is already installed). There is a 40GB FAT32 partition for windows kept separately.

Please help me out!

Many Thanks,
shami.

Reply to Shami Thoke:

I had the same problem when burning the ISO with a normal CD-burner, so I tried burning with the nLite program directly.
This worked as a charm!

Best regards
Inge

OK, but then how do I choose wich controllers in text mode? I'm now making the second CD and probably it won't work, cause was done in pnp, but i don't hane any idea what to choose in the givn list...

OK. Second CD and nothing happened. The PC doesen't even start the instalation. I did the image OK. I chose pnp cause I didn't know what to choose in the text list. I have a Toshiba Satellite A200-21T. Just saw a comment from somebody sayong that we shoulg use nlite burner - how do you do that? And another from somebody saying only text will do in the integration mode - what exact text mode should I use for my PC? were can I find it?

Wonderfull.... This is really great.
Many thanks

I have followed you directions perfectly on "Install Windows XP on SATA without a Floppy (F6)" with one problem. I am to the point where I am creating the bootable ISO to save so that I can burn it to a CD. I have clicked on the "make ISO" button and it starts (says progressing) but it never shows any progress. I have let it run for several hours (something like 5 or 6 hours) and it never shows any progress. I check Task Manager to see if it is hung up and it is not. Can you help me? Thanks in advance!!!

dude you saved my life. I got a new laptop with a sata drive and vista installed. Yuck! so I try and install xp, no joy. Also my drivers for the sata drive are on a floppy image!!!!. With luck I have an old computer kicking around with a floppy drive, few! created image create new CD using method above, and hey presto, it worked flawlessly!
Many thanks!!!

Thanks very very much!! You saved the day:D (my day actually)

Many many thanks. This worked like a dream.

I need help please. I really hate Window Vista but I follow the method and still can't get it working.

I recently purchase Asus G2S with Sata HDD of course.
It is a system with Window Vista pre-installed but I hate Window Vista and want to re-install Window XP.

I follow all the procedures, using nlite download all drivers that I can find on web. But what happen is, up to the stage where it detected my HDD (suppose to be 300G) to 286 Meg.

My Bios detect the HDD no problem showing 300G. Can someone help me please?

That's not an error - there's always some waste space on the HDD (presume it's taken up by format tables etc)

I have a 400GB HDD (identified as such by BIOS) but only get 372GB usable.

300GB usually means on a harddrive 300'000'000'000 Bytes. With Computers you usually divide by 1024.

Example:

1024 Bytes = 1KB
1024 KB = 1 MB
1024 MB = 1 GB

300'000'000'000 Bytes = 292'968'750 KB = 286'102 MB = 279,4 GB

You didn't lose any space, it is just calculated differently.

Hi, I was wandering if Windows XP ISO can be burned on to a DVD instead?

Boy, this really saved my butt. Not only was it a miracle to have this article, but gateway had the drivers for the sata notebook hard drive on their website, and the awesome program of nlite was available. Thanks so much!
Sincerely,
Dave Schmidt
Wolfland Computers
www.wolfland.net

Why do these drives say that they are compatible with XP and in there mauals it tells you that you can either load the drivers from the CD ROM it comes with or just boot from XP and install? Why do they say this if you have to go through the above steps anyway to get XP to work? Or do some drives install XP OK and some don't? I just bought a SATA drive and still have to install it since my PSU doesn't have a SATA power connector. Have to get an adapter for it. Anyway, it came with a CD that has drivers on it so am I OK or will I still have to go through the above steps?

Hi I have the same problem with my ACER travelmate 5310 and I've tried this method but when i hove to select the driver to be integrate, nLite does not found it. The drivers that i downloaded from ACER website is in *.INA format but nLite search for *.INF. Could anyone help me please. Ireally hate vista and have a lot of problems with it.

im not going to tell you what to do, but as a cpu tech i strognly recommend that you degrade to XP PRO unless you like vista. i researched for your drivers and the best drivers i could find were for XP i didnt many vista entries. if you do feel like degrading to XP PRO i can personally build you an ISO for your laptop and send it to you via aim,msn,or yahoo

I ve the same laptop & ve the same problem .. hope some one ll help me to install windows xp .. with my thanks

Thnx!!! It works sooooo fine :)

Dragos,
i just have two words for you.. YOU PWN... im a cpu tech and ive been LITERALLY working on this LIFEBOOK C 1410 for the last 13 - 16 hrs STRAIGHT. i tried at least 20 - 25 diff tutorials on driver integration and slipstreaming before i came across yours. and when i did i was done in 20 min!
Thanx alot man you rule!
-TRU

I see in your post 13.1 that you are willing to build an ISO for someone. I would tremendously appreciate your help on building an XP ISO with the SATA drivers. For some reason I just can't seem to get it to work...

Thank you Dragos, it realy works. I tried it on a vaio with vista integrated and without floppy, maybe the manufacterer build it like this to make us buy Bill's new 'powerfull os'. mersi omule. macar tu nu faci tzara asta de rahat

hi there, usually how long would it takes to finish for running the integrating drivers n do you guys think that it can be burn to CD cos it already more than 1GB n still haven't finish running the integrating drivers...somebody help me plz..thanx

Hey, I have a problem integrating the driver. I'm using a Compaq laptop that comes with Vista. I downloaded the SATA AHCI Controller Driver from Compaq website but nLite can't seem to locate the driver from my HDD. I browse to the location in where I saved the driver but it just doen't show on the list. Please..somebody help me..

My XP SP2 also did not see my SATA hard drive in my laptop, but this fix worked beautifully, thanks a lot!

This is an excelent guide! It works!!!!!!!!!
Thanks so much :)

Wow. Worked Great!

I have a problem integrating the driver. I'm using an Acer Extensa 5620 laptop that comes with Vista. I downloaded the SATA AHCI Controller Driver from Acer website but nLite can't seem to locate the driver from my HDD. I browse to the location in where I saved the driver but it just doen't show on the list.Can anyone help me please

Thank you Dragos! It works great!
To everybody with fujitsu siemens notebooks: you can find sata drivers for your wd's at support.fujitsu-siemens.com by simply finding drivers for the type of your notebook and downloading the device driver/AHCI intel driver and the rest is written by dragos.

Hats off to you dude......

i actually removed my old floppy drive from the previous cabinet in a desperate attempt to get the damn thing running.....

then i read your article and .......bammmm..........everything back to normal.....!!!!

thanks a lot buddy....thanks....a....lot.....!!!

Hi, Dragos Jijau,
MAN! you are so great. I followed your method. It worked great.

Thanks

can anybody help me with the sata driver of Compaq Presario V3660TU ? I'm trying to find the driver. thx

If your HP (cpompaq) came with preinstalled vista, then your comp has no official XP support. Look at http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3571627&lang=en&
and see what's in XP category... nothing useful. Under Vista you'll find all the drivers that wista needs. I don't know why they even list XP and 2000 there. I guess those categories are relics from the old times.
Anyway, in cases like this you have to be a little more creative. HP (compaq) has no XP support beacuse they want you to use bloatware vista, which you don't want to use. When you take a look in Vista drivers category you find that V3660TU uses ICH8 chipset. Probably Intel® 82801HBM I/O Controller Hub (ICH8M) - AHCI only. (Just my guess)
Go to > http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2101
and just download the Intel Matrix Storage Manager. You will run installer file with -A setup flag. Just type
iata_78enu.exe -A
It extracts all files (does not install) to if -P is also supplied; otherwise, the files are extracted to the default location. (program filesintel).
Now you have the drivers you need. Locate them and use nLite to implement them to your XP CD.
This applies to many different systems that use Intel controller not just this Compaq Presario V3660TU.
If there is something not clear, just ask.
Hope this someone helps.

Guys.

please help me. I have reached the point where I have to integrate the drivers. nlite just cant see the drivers. It is looking for .inf type of files where as my drivers downloaded from DELL ) are EXE type. How can I overcome this problem??

thanks
Joe

Run the .exe file... it'll just dump some .inf files into a folder of your choice and from there, nlite will see them

sounds like it works great but I can't get, and have used several different downloads, to get nLite to work..error- unable to excecute nlite doce 740- requires elevation??
please help, I have been working on this all day
thhx

You should set it to run with administrator rights.

I got to all that...made the boot disk and XP searched for hardware and then I got a ntdetect fail..Is this because my modified boot XP has the wrong driver?

This works Great. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
Couple of notes...if you have an older CDROM definetly burn right from the NLite program.

AND - I actually have a floppy drive and used the Intel floppy configuration ulility that creates a floppy disc for you (http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=2101&OSFullName=Windows* XP Home Edition&lang=eng&strOSs=45&submit=Go!) AND IT DOES NOT WORK. But yours did. Thanks again!

Guys, I'm also stuk on installing the XP on my pre-installed Vista acer 6291 notebook. I'm trying this procedure but I'm stuck on option three where you've to found the driver supplied by the manufacturer for installing the XP. The driver which Acer provided me is in IMA extension, name is temp.IMA. Nlite don't recognize this type of file, what to do? Thank you

Acer provided you a file temp.ima?? I think you've been too creative with trying to extract it from the .exe that writes directly to floppy pal. But guess what, not enough. If you have floppy drive use the .exe to create the floppy for you, if you don't and you don't have other source of the drivers, get a virtual floppy for example here >> http://www.freewarereview.info/2006-03/virtual_floppy_drive_-_floppy_disk_imaging_and_virtualization_part_ii.html
and use it to extract the drivers from .exe so you can add them to your modified Win XP CD.
Option too, if you are lucky, is just to disable SATA AHCI mode in your BIOS (can have different names like 'native sata support' or whatever) and you don't need to fool around with any drivers. BUT, not every bios has this option so look around and see. If you can not force your sata controller to emulate IDE instead of using AHCI you have to implement ahci (sata) drivers onto CD...
hope this someone helps.

You can use ultraiso to extract .IMA files

Help. If I get this right on Nlite and my HDD can be detected on the new XP cd. Can I still use BCD in vista to repair the xp boot and load the vista CD and restore

Great work thanx heaps, i tried it on a HP nx7400 and it works perfect..

Hello... To program worked.... It is very easy... Thanks...I have laptop acer aspire 5920 and i can't find drivers for xp... Is there somebody who have the same? Thanks....

Hello,
I have tried to do the same as you have mentioned but when i select the Multiple drivers option and get the browse option to select the directory, i do not see any items in the list, so the NEXT button is inactive. Can not proceed from there. I am installing WinXp in my new HP Pavillion laptop and the SATA HDD is WD2500BEVS (Western Digital). I downloaded the driver file from this page - http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=14&swid=53

I would highly appreciate if you could help me out in this.

best regards,
Sangeeth

And what do you want at wdc.com?? Don't worry about your hard drive, you need a driver for your SATA controller. Try to look in your BIOS for disabling native sata support first so you don't need any drivers if you wanna run XP only. If your BIOS doesn't offer this or you want to dual boot with vista already installed in ahci mode, you need drivers for XP. Look up my other post how to get it from intel.com if you have intel controller.

Great help, thank you. It worked for Lenovo 3000 N200

yes yes it works on my fujitsu siemens c1320 nice program..

i want to know how to install sata drivers in latest hp laptops when i am installing xp it booting and after that it giving error their is no hard disk the installation cannot continue.

And what is your latest HP laptop?? Does it have a model number at the bottom? If you happen to have DV6000 or DV9000 series, I know the BIOS there lets you disable native sata support so you don't have to worry about any drivers. Let us know how you doin'.

I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH F6 DRIVERS I CANOT INSTALL THE XP ON MY LAPTOP

hi there,

I have an amilo xi 2428 laptop and have followed the instructions to install xp but have had no luck. Found the driver from the original vista drivers and utilities cd that came with the computer. The driver i am selecting is the silcon image sil3531 satalink controller for windows xp/server 2003 in textmode. Can anyone help, it would be much appreciated

I have the same problem on my Amilo Si2636-24P, I downloaded the XP/2003 drivers and went through the nlite proceedure and had no luck. I also tried the same thing with XP ISO builder but also that with no luck. I have no idea what to do next. I guess I have to try to get hold of a usb floppy or something. :(

If anyone have any ideas please help me out!

I follwed the same instruction but it did't worked,
The same error came Windows did not find any hard disk
I have Hp Pavillion DV9500 CTO
Please Help ME

Thank you very much !!! It is working !!!
I have a new Gateway laptop without a floppy, I tried this and it is work good.
Thank you !
Thank you !
Thank you !

Zohar

I follwed the same instruction but it did't worked,

i download and include Intel SATA AHCI Controller Driver v. 5.5.0.1035 A

The same error came Windows did not find any hard disk

I have Hp Pavillion dv9690ev

Can any one help me ???

Dragos, great article, and great find. AWESOME!! NLite has saved me much aggravation and not to mention money. Thanks!!

Gave you guys props at my blog at www.aryeltech.com!

Thanks again!!

D.J. Thank you so much for this tutorial... you don't know how much headache you have saved me. Your tutorial was so straight forward. Thank you again for taking the time to write such a great a tutorial. Have a wonderful day!

Foarte tare frate ! Bravo !

umm... about the SATA drivers.. where can i get them? i'm using my dad's pc cause my notebook has no operational system right now. all i can download are exe files which cannot be unziped, but only installed.. and i don't need to say that i can't install them on my dad's pc cause it's not compatible.. so.. anyone know where can i find the SATA drivers zipped so that i can add them to my windows cd..? thanks in advance.

Do i still have to use the f6 method or will it automatically recognize my hard disk drive.. Plz Reply ASAP
Much Appreciated,
Arjun

You DON'T need all this effort! just go into your BIOS and disable the SATA setting inthe boot devices

THATS IT!

now insert the XP cd and reboot.

It Worked thanx a lot

Disable SATA is not an option in all BIOS setups. I saw that option on other sides but it was not available to me.

DUDE!!! No way! I did all that and did collectively 3 hours worth of work with no results. i did what u said and it worked BEAUTIFULLY!!!! THANK YOU!

Thank you, Johann!
Had this problem with a DELL Latitude D830. I changed in BIOS the SATA settings from AHCI to ATA and then I could install Win XP!

How do i get to my BIOS? im not noob at this but my laptop doesn't say how to and i haven't got an operating system.. my hard disk has been completely wiped.. so maybs i deleted the bios in the process.. plz help?

Plaese, can you help me,

T didn't find driver sata for xp for my sony vaio vgn-nr11ms HD: hitachi HTS541616

Thanks

Hi,

i couldn't even install Vista on my HP Compaq nc8430 which has sata hdd too.

is it mean that my hard drive has broken? or vista has same issue about scsi disks too? do i need to compile a new cd with scsi drivers inside for vista too?

actually i'm a bit confused because i can easily install Linux on it without any errors..

thanks in advance

can somebody help me , i can't find the sata2 drivers on the mobo website (my mobo is GA-P35 DS3L). i have the cd that came with the mobo but i don't know what to choose from there. HELP please!

Ruben, the instruction which tells you the location of the driver is found in chapter 5 of the Mobo manual.

THIS ONLY WORKS WITH A DESKTOP COMPUTER

Ok, here is a trick I learned the other day while installing Windows XP with a SATA hard drive and CD/DVD. What you have to do is get a IDE CD drive install it. Run the windows set up and it will work fine. No need to install 3rd party raid drivers. Once you have installed windows xp successfully. Run the drivers cd that came with the new motherboard. Then shutdown your computer and install the SATA cd/dvd drive back in and it will work perfect. I have done this several times and each time has worked.

RECAP:
1. Take out SATA CD drive and Install IDE CD drive.
2. Run Windows XP from the IDE drive and install it on the SATA hard drive.
3. Once inside windows run the drivers & utilities cd that came with the new motherboard. And install all drivers needed.
4. Shutdown the computer and install the new SATA cd/dvd drive back into the system.
5. You're done!

My new Gateway is all SATA. DVD/CD ROM and all the drives. BIOS has no options for SATA to IDE. NVidia Motherboard has no connectors for IDE anything. WHat a drag! HP had it all. SO there goes the IDE CD Rom method unless you have another way to get around it. gk

Multumesc Dragos. Esti tare. Acum HP-ul meu 530 A revenit la viata dupa ce i-am schimbat inima (hdd) . Continua tot asa .

Thank you! This saved us lots of headache (and having to buy a floppy drive). My husband was about to chuck his new pc out the window :)

hi, i have msi vr601x-082sk nb (originaly with no os) and i tried your receipt, but i failed. maybe i have not correct sata driver, could you help? hdd is wd1200bevs and western digital is not giving any driver for this hdd, itried also tools to prepare hdd, but it doesn´t help. where is the mistake? thanks everybody

Hi, I am trying to install xp professional on my HP Pavillion a6123w desktop computer, which came with vista home premium pre - installed. I went through the xp set up process until i got a "disk read error". Now I'm stuck here without the ability to boot back into vista. My chipset is NVIDIA nForce 430 and my processor is an AMD Athlon 64 X2. I found the chipset drivers for XP (at least I think I did). What should I do? Should I try to reinstall vista first so that I can create the slipstreamed xp install disk? How do I integrate the drivers I got from NVIDIA onto the xp install disk? Do I just run through the tutorial above or must I do something extra like Reply #26.1 details with the intel chipset. I need some help badly, thanks so much!!

What driver do u have to have, Windows XP or Vista?

I need to make this work for me but When I download the nlite.exe,
I cannot even execute it. The system says the file is corrupted! I have net.framework 2.0 - Would appreciate some help,

I notice that the webpage Soft... states that net framework 1.1 is
required - not 2.0. Could this be the problem?

thanks for all

Found the nlite.exe file now downloads and executes for me.

Thanks for any help you might have been.

Have successfull, run the program and have new augmented
windows xp pro disk ready for testing.

What to do when fujitsu only supply driveres in exe. or ini files?
nlite can only see inf files

This solution is amazing. I had two computers to build for a client, and the client order computers from his supplier that neither had floppy drives, nor would support an external USB floppy drive until the OS was installed. Installed Windows XP Pro perfectly on a RAID 5 based system!!!

This utility is a true keeper.

Thank you!

I have tried this several times now with no success and am getting fed up making coasters.

The problem is that, although I have integrated the RAID and SATA drivers into the image, and then burned it to DVD, the windows setup still doesn't recognize my SATA drive and reports no HDDs present.

If I connect my RAID array with vista installed, the drive appears fine. I then disconnect these and leave only my alternative SATA drive connected and XP 64 does not see it.

Now i get an error every time I run Nlite, saying that "The process cannot access the file 'G:XP filesusbport.sys' because it is being used by another process". This happens even when I cam creating the disc image, so nothing else can be using it!

Awesome solution! Thank You so much!

Thanks a lot !!!

I can install WinXP on to SATA Drive, by your suggestion.
nLite is nice utility software

thank you once again

I did as instructions required however, my xp pro disc (fully legal) did not recognize the SATA hard drive still.

I am using a compaq presario desktop w/ a 160 gb SATA 3.0gb/s, and I bought this computer which did not come with a vista re-install disc, or any driver cd's. If somebody could help me find the drivers required for this it would be much appreciated, and as far as the BIOS settings go, should I have sata enabled, or use RAID or what? Thank you!

I also tried your solution but this is not working for me. I am having Intel 945GCNL mother board with core 2 duo E4500 2.2 Ghz processor and seegate 250 GB harddisk. I did the same as you explained in your article, but it is not working. It is still unable to find SATA drivers. Please help me. Also giving an error of "pci.sys..."

Thanx a lot, Nice and Cool article.. Really helped me alot..
Great work man, good show

Fantastic instructions. My SATA HD has been recognised! Thank you guys!

Pat

I have brought Toshiba l40 18w notebook. I have tried your method of using nlite and creating a new CD. But still i am unable to make it run. Can you please provide me the correct driver for the same and the procedure

You got the driver on the toshiba web page. Flip down your laptop and see the marking in the middle right. Then in the download selection find the sata driver (AHCI HDD drivers ICH8M_32bit on the search). That worked for me . I hope it will help you

I have install N Lite and i want to integrate the Intel SATA driver into the windows XP SP2 cd so that it can recognise my SATA hardisk.
But In Nlite it cannot integrate the Intel SATA driver into it. It cannot recognise the EXE file. It can only recognise inf file.
pls advise me what to do.
Thanks.

u can unzip it, and you'll get your .inf files

Nice work! But what to do if the sistem (like HP 6820) need
Intel Matrix Storage Manager, before sata driver?

Works flawless as well, for the gentleman that asked about the HP/Intel Matrix drivers being in a .exe file all you have to do is run the .exe file and you should end up with the drivers on your C: drive somewhere similar to here:C:swsetupSP38088Files32 (this is for a HP Pavilion dv6814ca Notebook PC that is now installing XP).

This method works, but make sure you check your BIOS before doing all this. I nhad the problem where win xp c did not see my sata drive either, but i went into the bios and changed my sata mode from RAID to IDE, and it make the sata drive appear as an IDE drive. Now xp cd see's it without an issue.

Fara cuvinte....o idee pe cat de logica pe atat de simpla...bravo Dragos....as putea puncta...atentie mare la tipul driver-ului....sa fie e cel pentru chipset-ul placii de baza....pentru hp dv6700 aici... http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-56416-1&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=3650196&os=228
Doamne ajuta !!!

Thanks Dude !!!!!!!!!

Cheers !!!!!

You Rock MAN ...............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FLAWLESS

Vista crash and burn. 3 days of steady work on a Gateway laptop. No recovery. UPGRADING to XP. Your prog got my drives recognized. YOU ARE THE MAN!

Dragos you are my own personal Jesus Christ!! This process was so straightforward and your instructions were impeccable.. Thank you for your diligent post, you really deserve a trophy.. bless you and all teckies like you!

Top Man
Worked a treat with an Acer AM5620 and the dreaded Vista. Was able to get XP on with no problems after your instructions ;-)

I recently purchase Compaq SR5410F desktop with 320G Sata HDD and Window Vista pre-installed. My Bios detect the 320G HDD, but when I install Windows XP Pro, it only detected my HDD for 130G. Can someone help?

This is a really nice program. Got problems with Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop. Installing Windows XP runs just fine after adding the driver Intel(R) 82801HEM/HBM SATA ACHI Controller (Mobile ICH8M-E/M).
I wanted to get rid of the original installed Windows Vista and go back to XP Pro.

Paul - After installation of your XP use the "Disc-Administration" and get the rest of your harddisk up running :o)

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Hi from Bulgaria.The program is super!!!! Work very well. Thanks

I WAS GREAT, YOU HAVE THE BEST KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HARDWARES, I WAS STUCK AND GOT THE GOOD IDEA.
MY WORK WAS DONE.

THANKS
NITIN SINGHAL
NEW DELHI - INDIA

Hey.

A little hello from Denmark.

tryed your guide and must say, that was the best! This works 100% and is super!!:D

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

This software is great

Just wanted to say thanks. That works superbly. i had bought a Dell Inspiron 1525 with SATA disk, and my XP install didn't recognise it. Followed this guide and it worked first time! Excellent. Thanks once again.

Dear Dragos,

Million thanks to you for making my life easier!

Hi, my Laptop version is HP Compaq Presario v3791TU.(Intel Dual Core processor)

I have tried the above method suggested by the Author to install SATA driver to my Laptop. However, the same problem persists. The error saying something about could not find my hardware is still there.

Besides that, I have also tried following some of the the suggestion in the comment,

Getting a driver straight from Intel:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2101
When I tried to use it, it says that my computer do not meet the minimum requirement.

When I contact a HP online technician, he said that I can only use an external floppy drive to install the SATA driver.

However, I really do hope there is a way for me to install the SATA Driver without having to buy an external floppy drive.

Grosso de Grosezz total... re va la solucion
Great man with with a greatest wisdom. go go go the solution

Thanks, I had the drivers loaded on a usb floppy but after F6 and format the system kept prompting for SATA Drivers in drive A and process died there.

Making boot image resolved that problem.

Thanks Again

Dragos Jijau love you man .... worked ... and thanx Hillyard for g8 advice "Make sure to use text mode when intergrating the drivers! '

This guide totally saved me. THANKS

Awesome ! you made my day. I was worried that dell sent me a lemon :) ... Whoh ! I love you man ! Just awesome !!!! Why google does not pull up your posting the first??? I am going to write to them...
Thanks again to you, where ever in this world you are.....
Thanks...

I installed windows, but when it reboots the first time (after configuring language and time zone) I get a blue screen and the laptop restarts itself... HELP!!!

There is a much easier solution to this all. Go into your BIOS at startup. This can be with F2 or F8 depending on the motherboard. Then go the the IDE devices in which you will see you SATA drive set to AHCI. You need to change this to IDE. After install you can change this back when you have the SATA driver installed in Windows (using the CDROM from your manufacturer).

Good luck

Hi guys,

One quick question; Is it neccessery to have the original XP cd, or will a copied version also do the trick? I don't have the original XP cd as it was also pre-installed on my previous desktop, just like Vista is on my new laptop...

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best regards,
M.

Great, it works! Many thanks. Just one thing: when I added the drivers of my Lifebook C1410, I could choose in nLite between 'PNP' and Text modus. I've got to admit that I just picked one, and PNP was apparently not working. Text modus did, so the machine is up and running now. It might be just me being stupid or the Lifebook drivers, but in case others have the same problem: Text modus is your friend.

Thanks again, Dragos.

Hi everyone,

Quick Question: I have a PC that has both IDE and SATA. It picks up my IDE drive but it doesn't pick up my SATA drive and l need to install Windows XP OS on the SATA drive..My motherboard is a PT800TWIN..

Please help!!

You have given a detailed guide but my problem is how and where to download the SATA drivers for my Extensa 5210 laptop. Your help would be highly appreciated. You are doing a great job.

thanks

I also need helps to install windows XP professional in my Toshiba brand New laptop -A205-S5831 . Its have SATA HDD and Its giving Hard disk Driver error .
Please mail me How I can solve this problem?

thank tou Dragos Jijau!!! i've burned my customized version of win xp pro adding SATA driver on it. if i must install xp, the system will be able to recognize automatically the right driver o i've to do something else during the installation?

I really want to know about nlite programe please help me

Magic! Fixed someones laptop and mucking around with Nlite is interesting and an INVALUABLE tool I've come to realise. Although don't go mad on taking out things you might not need.

I did that and then add
emove programs wouldn't work. Lol

Hi Folks
I have a paritioned HDD 80g.XP paritition came with my NC6320 , pre-installed with SATA drivers. I wanted to install Vista to a new partition. In my BIOS , I disabled Native SATA mode and then it recognized my new partition and installed onto that.
NOW THE PROB IS THAT AFTER VISTA WAS INSTALLED. OTHER SOFTWARE COULD NOT BE INSTALLED.
I GET ERRORS LIKE "CANNOT FIND XYZ.DLL" ...CANNOT WRITE TO THE TEMP DIR. ...CANNOT WRITE TO THE PROFILES DIR. ETC
RATHER THAN GO THROUGH ANOTHER DVD BUILD FOR VISTA USING NLite. IS THERE A-N-Y WAY FOLKS, WHERE I CAN INSTALL THE SATA DRIVER ONTO VISTA . LIKE EDIT SOME STARTUP FILES OR SOME OTHER OPTIONS SO THAT IT LOADS THEM AUTOMATICALLY THEN ONWARDS FOR EVERY BOOT.
Thanks

The directions worked up until I got to the point to load the driver from the multiple driver folder. The issue is that the F6flpy32 WinImage Self Extractor file that the SATA driver cannot be recognized by nLite. I still seem to need a floppy in order to add the SATA driver. In other words, when I unzip the SATA, it is only in a form that the floppy will recognize. Did I miss something? I thought this was supposed to load the driver without a floppy. Many thanks for any guidance.

Dragos,

This is fantastic!! Well done to you.

I had some trouble installing XP on my laptop, i used a usb floppy for the sata drivers and it seemed to work fine, but after windows formatted the hdd it asked to insert the floppy disk(!??) and didnt recognise the usb drive any more!

So i found your method and tried it all out. much to my dismay it didnt work on the first iso that i made, but my advice for anyone having trouble here is PLEASE DONT GIVE UP. After checking caerefully I discovered i tried to add the wrong drivers!

THe NLITE program was a little confusing to use, but i dont think id have xp installed on my laptop if it wasnt for it so thanks again!!!!

This might seem a stupid question, but what DRIVERS do I have to use? My harddrive is a ST3500830AS. Do I need to find drivers from that?
Thanks in advance

i created a disk using it.but it did not searched any hdd.what do i do???

Excellent article, it helped me a lot. Thank you so much!!!!

Thanks for this post, it saved 90gb worth of my data thanks to corrupted windows! I really appreciate it.

Hi there,
I have a Vaio CR220e with Vista and I'm trying to install a windows xp in an external USB SATA disc. It seems that I'm failing to identify the correct Intel Sata driver. The XP installation allows me to partition and format the external drive but it fails to install XP giving the blue screen error error 7B.
I saw your recommendations and maybe you can help me.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Just wondering will NLite be able to insert the installation package with a OEM Version of XP? Is it the original OEM Disc that is being modified or is nLite taking a copy of XP plus inserting the SATA onto a blank CD?

i did everything and all went fine.
the instructions are clear and all but
when i try to use the new cd to install xp
i get an error message saying that the file "viamrx64.sys"
is corupt
what do i do now?

Thanks Dragos !!!!!!! Your article was extremely usefull & I am sure will gain popularity day by day as most of the Laptops these days come with SATA Disk & no floppy drives ....

Hillyard ........ Your input regarding using Text Mode was also important .... I didn't see your comments initially & wasted a couple of CD's troubleshooting ... Finally , after reading your comment , things were clear ....

Thanks a lot again !!!!!!!!!!!

I am doing a Vista removal to be replaced with xp pro ser pack3 version,
p.s. where you use the word "import"to get the drivers the word on screen is actually 'insert'. Correction would help the challenged like me follow the instructions better lol. Once I got past that snag everything went perfect. I have been working on this for 3 days to no avail. Thank you so very much. I was afraid I would have to give it back to my son with Vista still on it. thanks again

I have been loking for this for years...

thanks its a great solution
since a week i try to slove this probleme
thank u

Beautiful!

Followed your instructions and everything worked perfectly. Burned the ISO and now I have a full on SP2 with Sata installtion disk if ever I have any other problems.

It's ridiculous that in 2008 we should have to rely on a floppy to install an OS so this was a welcomed alternative. Your instructions were clear and helpful. I've been searching for a way to do this for a few years but recently for about 24 hours after losing XP due to a registry issue caused by an overheat shutdown and now I have a foolproof way of installing XP on any future machine that has SATA. Thanks again.

the program is very good and thank you.

is this going to work with servers? i mean i have a dell 2900 with perc 5 integrated sas 4 hds. i need install windows 2000 and it seems i ve a problem with the boot cd that came with dell. if i get the drivers from dell and install will it work?

I can't thank you enough for this excellant tutorial, The only item I came across that differed was when choosing a folder of drivers to be slipstreamed into the original XP dsik, there was 2 modes one was a plug and play mode the other was text mode. I tried the plug and play first which was wrong. The text mode worked flawlessly. THANKS AGAIN!!! EddieT.
Gateway dx430S, Intel duel processor on an Intel DG9650T MB.

I tried the procedure with my computers pc it worked thank you very much but I have a question. how about for scsi hard drive I mean I have hp pavilion dv 6700 cto notebook pc having scsi hard drive what can I do with it.

Thank you for your really good information.
Please help me on this question:
I want to install Windows XP on my Laptop (VAIO VGN-FW139E), and Windows XP setup can't detect my hard drive. Now I want to follow your instruction.
But there is a problem exist: I have SATA Driver that's work in VISTA Not in XP, Can I use this driver to merge with windows XP Setup CD?

@ Comment #1.4 by: Dalzell on 22 Aug 2008, 09:46 GMT:

I suspect the file is a self-extracting archive file. You can try to open the .exe file with using WinRAR, WinACE or some other zipping program. Then save the content to a desired folder for further treatment.

this looks like it would be great, unfortunately my installation does not work.
I have a western digital WD 800JD and I downloaded the drivers from manufactures site and intergrated them into the new windows cd using the above method, but when it boot up, windows loads all the drivers and then states it cannot continue due to no HDD, so i tried the F6 command instead and still cannot find drivers due to having no floppy.... :(

This is the BEST Trick I have learned for long time. This is the answer to my prays.

Thaks a million!,,,,

Perfect
it works !!!!!!
thanks alot for your excellent work

Has anyone figured out what to do when all your drivers are in .exe format???

nLite is awsome but it just will not integrate .exe files. Of course it wants .inf

Other people with same problem but no answeres.

HP DV6500 need .inf drivers not .exe !!!!!!!!!!!!

For all those people like me.
I found a way to take manufacture driver downloads in .EXE and other forms and 'extract' them to .INF works perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Use the WINRAR program to extract .EXE driver file. Then extract it again with WINRAR so it is a 'temp.IMA' file. Then use MagicISO to open the .IMA file. Drag all the .INF and other files out of MagicISO into a folder.
Select any one of the INF files in the almighty nLite program and all the driver shows up !!!!!!!!!!! works so well so easy so happy!! magic iso rocks.

I tried your trick with the "extracting" and no success! anyone have other suggestions? i have a Dell Dimension 8400 and my file is a .exe that won't open without a floppy drive.... any way to get .inf files out of it?

Excellent guide. This has got me out of trouble twice now! have now got an XP build cd with all the right drivers on! Thanks very much.

Thanks a lot. I have a laptop, I managed to install by changing from sata to ata in BIOS, but that slows down a little bit. With this I now can instal xp and use my hdd as it is:SATA
:)

hi
Thanks for great idea for this problem
But another problem pops up, after installing winxp the USB drivers have some error.
each time you connect a USB device (external HDD, mouse, ..) you have to install the divers manually. No more auto search for the drivers.

and that was mentioned by ""b00t_f4il"" before and no one reply was made by any one
and this is what he wrote:

Comment #1.3 by: b00t_f4il on 17 Jul 2008, 16:51 GMT
i have try the method you describe but i have a few problem regarding the usb driver. after i intergrated the sata driver, i found out that the usb driver in my windows installation had a problem. for example, every time i plug in a usb device, i need to install its driver, even a usb mouse. can u help me with this?

so anfter integrated the drivers in the cd, this problem appears.
any suggestions.

please help.

My Email
hamedm76@hotmail.com


thnks

are you working as? Ihave an AMILO Pi 1505 with that problem. I can not load windows XP on sata drivers with any way even with the way you tall us!!!

Dragos are you from Romania ? Because only 1 romanian guy can prepare something cool ! Thanks ! Multumesc frumos !

thanks
this problem make hadage to me and my laptop dos not contaning floppy
to use sata driver
thanks

i have an amilo v2035 and the same problem with SATA driver package - Via hyperion VN800 has all drivers together coming as a package. help pleez !!

I bought a Dell laptop with SATA drives and had issues with Vista. I had an original XP Home CD and needed to install it. This process was not only simple but it worked perfectly first time. Thank you very much for posting this tip.

The NLite help pages also suggest that if you're really desperate then you can switch your SATA drive in the BIOS settings to IDE mode and then the standard installation should work in any case. However there was no need to do that in this case.

Kind Regards
Steve

All i did was

1. Change BIOS setting to IDE
2. Install XP and the drivers that come along with motherboard CD, especially the chipset driver
3. Change the BIOS setting back to RAID

Cheers

Dragos Jijau Is The XP Boot SATA Issue God!
If positive comments were money, I would've given you a BILLION DOLLAR!
Thank you very much and please keep us up to date with your expertise!

RPM

I knew that my old copy of n-Lite would save my butt someday. It did. Did Microsoft forsee the day of notebooks without floppy drives? Probably....
Did they ever intend for consumers to downgrade from one of their newer Operating Systems to an older one that had many of the bugs fixed?
No Way!

Thx for the fix.

hey, im using a TravelMate 7320 and i have the same problem, the Nlite only accepts .inf files and here i have .sys there is some software to convert these? or some way to find new archives in this format? here you have my email

agustin_enriquez A T hotmail.com

i have an advent 8117 with a sata hdd this is the only computer ive got access to and i have a question: can you do this on the computer with the SATA hdd? my email adress is: tw9902@edu.clacks.gov.uk

I have sony vaio laptop with 2 hdd drive of sata and installed windows vista ultimate. each is 250 gb with 4 gb ram and I Want to install windows xp but it is not showing hdd drive while installing xp is is giving message that now fixed drive found and I have no flopy disk to install windows xp so how can

I would like to say thank very much for the help, It really works without floppy drive, Youre the MAnnnnnnnn..............

Thanks for saving me lots of time. @#144 use whatever windows version you have to do add the drivers to the windows installation cd and then you can use it to format and install windows xp onto the sata hdd

Great article. Everything works like a charm. It saved me quite a few hours of pain.

you are the man ....
Mate you are great !!
I own a Pavilion DV6860EV notebook with SATA HDD ...
XP setup was impossible to recognize the HDD up to now !!!
Thanks a lot !!!

Hi there all , i got Dell inspiron 1525 , i too wanted winxp on my machine , i did as on this article , great really great all worked , thanks to all of you
Reagrds

I have tried this several times. from reading all the post I have determend thet i must have the wrong drivers. i have taken them from my MB disk, Downloaded from asus website and from sis web site none of them work. Still get error say no hard drives found. I have a P4s800d-x MB any help would be greatly apriceated.

Thank you Dragos and ALL. Excellent instructions. Got XP installed smoothly on my Acer notebook. Now I want to buy a 12" Thinkpad without an internal CD-Rom - to keep it light. Don't want to buy an external CD-Rom if I can. How can I install XP using above method with an USB stick?

i bought a new laptop of FUJITSU SIEMENS. i want the fresh installation of win xp , but the problem iswhile insatalling time the error of unknown disk will be occured....

It works fine!!!

Tried to add ICHR9 raid driver for Gigabyte x48t dq6 controller diconnected all other drives other than te x4 sata raid drive. Created my disk and yes i saw the drivers being installed by xp64 but then got to the end and said no drives detected? arrhhh!!
Nlite need an option to insert a USB CD Rom to search for driver have not got a clue as to why my raid array is not being seen in the custom xp64 build any help appreciated.

Oh gigabyte x48t dq6 and vista 64 raid drivers under inter storage matrix 8.5 kept crashing/verifying the drive volume yet drives reported 100% hence trying to port onto xp64 see if more stable. Ive heard people note that v46 and ichr9 has problems me thinks its the v64

before using this method try before entering the setup (bios) choose configuration, choose sata , make disabled. in some versions sxitch to AHC...
and reboot with XP cd.

Brilliant stuff. Worked like a charm - you are a DUDE.

Worked flawlessly for sony vgn-z540n downgrade! Thanks!

I've followed your tutorial in order to install XP on my Fujistu S7110. It worked great.

A big thank you to you and the other people who pointed out the "Text" option (PNP won't work)

If someone still needs a quick howto to extract the drivers.
-The driver on the Fujistu sites comes in a exe file called iata55_cd.exe
-Read the readme.txt file :) to extract the files
- Select the driver folder with nlite (choose text mode and select the drivers)

For my part I creacted a folder c:extract and i typed the following command
iata55_cd.exe -a -a -p C:extract

Dragos Jijau you are a genius!

You rock ... i was searching for 3 hours ... you are the MAN

This is the most effective and simplest way I could find to get XP on SATA.
Thanks very much indeed.

Thanks dude this really helped me a lot...... I've looking for a solution how to Install Windows XP on my hard disk for almost 2 days.... Luckily I've found this and it really helped me a lot....THANKS A LOT..... Now I can continue.... More Power

Excellent!

Nu mai trebuie sa imi conectez vechiul fdd la computer.

the method work great , thanks Dragos Jijau,
a note: before going all this , make sure that u can not disable the native sata
in the bios settings , i did that in a laptop with this option and the installation just went as usual
good luck

Dragos, you rock! I was stuck in the usual problem: recent laptop with no floppy support and XP who needs AHCI drivers to install.

Thank you so much

DRAGOS, ESTI GENIAL!!!!

Esti roman, nu? Geniile ca tine fac tara asta sa straluceasca. Mi-ai facut seara mai frumoasa, si acum pot instala si windows-ul pe laptop. Felicitari!

nice work here

very nice info, but i have sony VGN-NR21M
and i have no floppy disk,i already did partition and now i unable to instal xp on this machine
plz tell me from where i can download SATA controller for this ,
can u give me the link from where i can download SATA controller , thanx
waiting ur response
Thanx

created bootable with nero, slipstreamed in my sata/raid drivers, but when i boots i get "the file iaStor.sys could not be found"...

searched the web a bit, but couldn't find any concise answers on how to resolve it,

any ideas? thanks in advance... computer is gateway MX8715 notebook with intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller

Its very important to use the TEXT MODE option for the drivers.
i followed a tutorial that said to use PNP option and that didnt work.
thank you very much for this info.

Fantastic. Works a charm. Many thanks

Hello, I have problem with same file as person above except my error says 'iaStor.sys is corrupt'
This happens when the installation files are being copied from my cd. What shall I do?

For HP Pavilion dv6000 users:

There is no way to disable sata or change it to ata mode in BIOS.
To install windows XP just download latest storage manager from HP site, extract and select all drivers from c:swsetupSP38088Files. Do not change textmode in driver integration options!

Cheers,
Jakub

I tried alot to follow the procedure and when i created the CD, and tried to run the setup of windows, it says that you cannot run the windows set up.

Please help me with it.

works like a charm, burnt xp sp3 with ahci sata controller drivers which is for intel, the built the compaq laptop that was giving me issues, will work for my thinkpad too as also intel sata controller... don't undertsand why these drivers weren't included in sp3 though... anyways just used the xp sp3 cd, drivers from hp, and nlite to prepare, add drivers and save as iso, then double clicked the iso and used default program to burn with, not sure if this was from nlite of the one on the hp...

Thanks to Hillyard it worked.
If it wasnt for the text-mode thingy, i would've given up.. Didnt work w/o it

awesome.... thanks for the guide and solution,by the way, I've tried and succeed to copy onto my cd. I tried to install until finished... but it stopped on the way.. I don't know why.. would you mind giving me your ISO copy for the installation package. pleaseee.

after booting from cd u must press the F2 fonction button to star detecting any raid or sata hdd, goofd luk

very nice information . I saved my full day

This worked flawlessly... I was given an Inspiron 1525 with a bad hard drive. Upon replacing the hard drive I wanted to put XP on it and soon realized that I had no floppy drive to load the SATA/RAID driver.

Thank you so much for your help!

THANKS YOU!!!! Windows XP is being installed now. Took me a while but I finally got it (Main snag was the windows version & my SATA drivers) Your guide worked like a charm!
THANK YOU!!

WOW! You are amazing! I've spent the past week nearly cutting my wrist over this problem, and this process has worked flawlessly. I've tried countless processes to get this to work, even bought one of the supported IBM floppy drives. This is the road to go!

Hi I can not install win XP to Acer Aspire M3640 ...could anyone help me as this is nightmares to me

Thank god man, I was so worried i'd wiped my friends laptop for xp for nothing, and that id have nothin to show for it ah! But that explanation was EXACTLY what I needed! Thanks a million (for earning me 40 bucks!)

Dear friendly friend,

Your trick is working very well, and thanks for your help.


Khalil - Afghanistan

Thanks, I was already losing my mind. It is working perfectly!

I've made all these nLite operations on a W2k3Server system (not an XP), but after booting up the HP Compaq 6910p with this newly created iso, it didn't see my Hitachi 80 GB SATA. So I swicthed in BIOS the option of the SATA NATIVE OPERATION to Disabled, it worked perfectly...

So thanx man, you rule!

I'll try this out with Win2K3 Server CD too...

This is amazing! I had to uninstall vista with a fresh copy of XP. No floppy, SATA HDD only - drivers downloaded for sata and integrated with nlite! DONE! You definately made lots of people happy with this tutorial! Respect

YOU MADE MY DAY. I spend you a virtual beer now!

Many thanks, I couldn't believe I was about to have to install a floppy just to install XPSP3 on a band new machine . Then I found your article and now I don't have to. BTW, just to throw out a bit of a gripe to Microsoft, you would think they would have made it easier to install SATA drivers (by USB device or such) by their third service pack.

Everything worked perfectly. I was not sure by reading the article if you still needed to press F6 during the Windows installation, so I just want to clarify for anyone else who has that question, no you do not, the drivers will be installed automatically as long as you loaded them properly.

Thanks again!

I have hp Pavilion 6000 and i want to downgrade it to WindowsXP, but the setup could not found any hard drive on my laptop, But some friend ask me to get a software install before the setup, Please i want you to help me out, its very important

Can any one please kindly tell what is the chipset for Compaq V3780TU

Thank you so much, worked great on my Gateway MT6840. Thanks to those that advised using text mode when selecting drivers and burning with nLite app. Picked up my hard drive right away.

I looked into slip streaming an XP install and about pulled my hair out trying to figure it out. This works flawlessly.

hi i have notebook presario v3906tu. i want to install it with windos xp support sata. how can i find that?

Fantastic. Works a charm. Many thanks

Hi, Can anyone please let me know the link to download the WD1600BEVS 60RST0 ATA device driver. I have Vista pre-installed on my laptop and I want to install XP on it. The laptop is HP Pavilion DV2750ee.

Best regards,

Syed Taha Mustafa

This really great. It worked perfectly with my new dell latitude e6500. A lot of my professional software do not support windows vista yet and thus I "upgraded" my windows to windows xp. The best part of this procedure is that I can also integrate SP3 and make the installation automatic. Thank you, Dragos. You saved me hours of trouble.

Lifesaver...it worked great. Burning the CD definitely works best using nLite, I tried two other burning programs and it didn't work. Anybody need some coasters?? I have a few extra now.

i tried nlite but its not working again its saying the same problem, may be i didn't choose the right drivers can anyone please help me whr the drivers are located in windows vista ultimate

i tried this c:windowssystem32drivers and c:windowssystem32driverStore

Please help me asap

Where do I find the drivers? I have a laptop HP9870ep. Two harddrive each 250 GB Modell: HTS542525K9SA00. Intel chipset PM965. I have been trying for two days to install xp pro without any result (hours of searching an burning 5 images). XP still can not find the harddrives. There is nothing wrong with the hardware because Vista is installed on the laptop and everything is working. But I want to go back to XP pro. The laptop is new and came with Vista. Any help would be appriciated. Or if someone can provide alink based on the information provided. Thank you in advance.

Thanks for the guied.i've creted the ffile Winlite.iso size 590 mb.Now please guide me n tell that have i write to this winlite.iso file in my cd or any other ? im confuse so please guide me and tell what or which file i have to burn in my cd.
thanks lot

Thank you, Thank You !! Excellent article. Got me going with XP on a Vista-supplied laptop.

Good stuff, thanks a lot!

hi

I have the same model notebook.
Could you plz send the links of all the drivers which are relevant to my notebook.
please

Awesome article! It got me out of trouble when I recently had to install XP on a SATA drive after never having used SATA before. Without this, I would have been lost! :) Great work!

kindly let me know from where you got hold of the driver
thanks

Worked Perfect with my HP 530 SATA drive
Thanks !!!!!!!!

Your article just saved my life as I had to install XP on an SATA equipped computer and had no clue how to do it..
Thanks a lot Dragos!

thanks heaps. this worked perfectly!

Did't work for me, either. I've got an HP dv9690ev

Just brilliant. I still cant believe that i made FSC amilo to accept XP ice.
THANX THANX THANX........................................and THANX

this nlite thing works fine, for the guy who left the program more than five hours, let me guide you, after awhile the program letyou press the next key just click on it and thats it, then finish and ask you where r u going to save the iso thing for burn it later ok, i hope this let your doubts away.

I know there's probably enough comments already...
but honestly, it's been driving me mad for more than 10hrs today and i was close to throw it all by the window, run to the nearest apple store and buy a G5.
thanks for saving my bank account, and my day :)
Lian

Thank you so much. I could not have asked for a better explination on how to complete this task!

Worked like a charm on my Compaq 6710b ! Thanks.

I have a problem with installing XP Pro on my computer. I got a fresh WD SATA HD (WD3200AAKS), hooked it up to the SATA1_SB port on the motherboard (Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro) and installed XP from CD. Installation works perfect (without providing drives on floppy via the F6 option) but when it is finished and it reboots, XP gives me the following "blue screen" message:

"A problem had detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damgae to your computer. If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your computer.

If this screen appears again, folow these steps:
Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated.
Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive curruption, and then restart your computer.

Technical information:

*** STOP : OxOOOOOO7B (OxF898963C, OxC0000034, OxOOOOOOOO, 0x00000000)"

I disabled all RAID functions in the BIOS since I only have 1 HD and I don't want to use RAID function.
So I searched the internet and it seemed to me it was a drivers problem.

I downloaded the "NVIDIA nForce3 250 / Ultra Driver (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows setup to read from floppy) O.S. : Windows XP" driver, put it on a flopppy and used it during install with F6.

However, XP is telling me that the driver files are older than the ones on the XP CD. But what the heck, just use them and continue. Again it installs and I still get the blue screen.

So I got a manual from the gigabyte site and it told me to use the driver provided on the CDrom specifically for installing XP on the nForce3 250 chipset. So I did. I made the flop, fed it during XP install and it just tells me that the files are older than the ones on the XP cdrom. But I force to use the driver on the flop. When it continues to install it's telling me that it can not copy the drivers files from the flop to the HD so it gives you the option to skip them or quit installation. As you can guess, I am still confronted with the same blue screen...

I am a bit out of options now. Any help?

* motherboard rev. 1.0 Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro
* BIOS F6
* HD WD3200AAKS (WD Caviar Blue 320Gb SATA

Many thanks,

Geert

Problem solved!

What the exact solution was I can not say, but I did the following things and it finally worked:

* set my HD manually to the 150Mb/s speed with a jumper as my MB does not support the higher 300 mB/s rate.

* the CDrom drive was hooked up to IDE 1. I do not know whether it was critical, but I hooked it up to IDE 2 to prevent the cdrom being contrrolled as a HD and causing a conflict (since IDE 1 is typically used for HD).

* I used Nlite to slipstream the drivers for my SATA controllers and this finally provided the solution. Before I had a Floppy drive hooked up to install the drivers, but although XP installation with F6 could identify the drivers on the floppy, when it came to copying the files later in the install process it gave errors. This was solved by slipstreaming the drivers on the cdrom.

BTW I dumped the flop drive in the trash... it caused me more problems than it solved ;-)

Thanks to Nlite.

Geert

I am totally desperated with this issue!!!
I was having this problem, and I was able to avoid it changing in my bios the hard disk mode: I had three possible options: IDE, RAID and ACHI. I changed from RAID to IDE, and Windows menu appeared. But when I chose to format main partition, setup was cancelled with this message: "setup was unable to format the partition, the disk may be damaged"

I then followed these instructions (they were fantastic by the way!!!!), and I was able to modify Windows XP Pro bootable disc to load my hard disk drivers. I was cellebrating I would be able to install XP on my new HP desktop computer (and format bloody Vista) and the same message shown up: "setup was unable to format the partition, the disk may be damaged"

Honestly, I dont know what else to do....I am totally desperated....anyone can help? Thanks a lot

I have a new Gateway laptop without a floppy, I tried this and it is work good

Hi, I'm planning to buy a New Compaq CQ60-101AU. that comes with athlon 64*2 Nvidia MCP77MV Chipset, And Just DOS.
I'm buying this only to work on XP pro and use it for some Music Composing and editing and some Mechanical designing as well.
However, When i enquired about using XP, the vendors here said that it would be really difficult to get all the drivers required for the Laptop.
I tried getting them, but as i am not into Computers much i do not know where to get them from. The vendors are not of much help.
What do i do?
I believe the Nlite solution will work for this laptop as well.
plzzzz HELP!!!!

Thanx a bunch guys. Hard to find straight forward, and good advice like this. This procedure worked like a charm, and gave me alot of other fun options :)

Sorry to view this, actually i have bought this model ( -HPcompact CQ40 115 ) but nlite doesn't do much to help me install Win XP. By right we need a USB Floppy Disk to interfere while we install Win XP with the Sata Controller. I swear to God the process take a longer time to finish up the whole thing. I suggest that you or anybody show us about the step by step procedures to ged rid of the Sata Controller to convert from Vista to WinXP with the use of the floppy disk and the intaller itself. Modification at the BIOS and Nlite definitely wont help anything on Compact AMD CQ40 115AU, I mean it. Those laptops nowadays are free floppy disk but we can use external USB floppy desperately in case. Unluckily, most of the forum shows incomplete procedures. I hope you can help those who are loyal to Windows XP.

I have HP dv1827us, Vista laptop and desperately wantig to install XP.
ON the 4th step where nlite asks you to select driver files, what drivers files are we supposed chose?

Another thing I am confused is, before creating ISO file, do we have to include the driver/s for SATA? If so how do we do that? Is this what needs to be added as driver in above step ie, 4th step in nlite?

If SATA driver needs to be added before making ISO file for bootable CD, where can you suggest to get SATA driver for HP DV1827us note book?

Any Help will be greatly appreciated.

Microsoft oughtta be shamefull for makng so many people's life painful. Oneday consumers will be able to punish and fine any manufacturers for malpractice of their authority to manipulate the merchandises.

I followed these instructions to a tee and created a bootable windows xp home edition disk with sata support . I replaced a hard drive and decided to put windows xp instead of windows vista and the disk I created worked flawlessly. Thank you

I have a Packard Bell easynote MB series. It came freedos and I tried installing XP on it, but the setup manager did not detect my HDD. I Modified the advanced section of my BIOS setup - disabled the AHCI Configuration - ant then it worked just fine!

EXCELENTE!!! FUNCIONA A LA PERFECCION. ! GRACIAS A Dragos Jijau y a Hillyard POR SU SOLUCION Y EFECTIVAMENTE HAY QUE TENER CUIDADO CON QUE SEA EN TEXTMODE. Al principio no me daba la opción Nlite pero puse el archivo txtsetup.oem que viene con el driver (solo que venia en una supcarpeta diferente al driver winxp) en la misma carpeta del driver windowsxp SATA de mi tarjeta madre y funcionó !!!

GREAT !!! WORKS FINE !!! THANK YOU Dragos Jijau y a Hillyard for this solution. Just to be sure of using textmode. If you can not gain access to this option, just put the file txtsetup.oem (sometimes this file does not come in the same directory as the driver) in the same directory as pnp driver of your motherboard and NLITE will give you the option. !!! Omar Costa Rica.

Any one can provide the SATA driver text files for the laptop HP Compaq presario CQ40 - 108 TU which required to integrate with Widows XP inorder to successfully load Windows XP on my laptop

I have ASUS P4S800D Mobo. Just bought WD SATA disk that XP would not detect. Got drivers from Asus disk and added as guide said. I successfully created the Lite disk as you mentioned. Tried to install, still cannot detect SATA Disk. What am I doing wrong?

I am from iran.
My laptop's model are: Toshiba Satellite A205-S5880

but i don't find Sata Raid driver

it isn't in toshiba site

Plz help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Plz :(

Dragos Jijau, I just want to say you are the best and Thank you for this wonderful instructions. It works like a Charm!!!. I'm able to resolve this issue after following all your instructions.
Thanks once again, Saad

If the SATA Controller is from Intel you can download Intel Matrix Storage Manage Driver and there are many drivers which may be suitable drivers for SATA. Moreover I found a very easy way to install Windows XP in a SATA controller. First of all you have to disable the SATA from Bios and do an ordinary installation of XP. After the installation of all the drivers please locate the driver for SATA Controller. Then go to device manager by right click My Computer - Hardware. You can see a list of devices. Click the + sign near to IDE ATA *** Controllers. Click the driver TAB and update driver. If it prompts update search for software click no and proceed to next. Choose the install from specific location and proceed to next. Click on dont search I will choose the driver to install and procced to next. click on have disk and locate the driver file and select it. It may give you a warning that it is not suited for your device. Ignore this and continue. After the installation you may be asked to restart. While restarting during th POST please go to the bios again and activate SATA mode this time and save the bios and exit and you can see that windows xp is being loaded without any problem. Please wait a while until the installation is complete and again system prompts for a restart. Now you have sucessfully installed SATA on windows XP and you can enjoy the full performance of XP on SATA Controllers.

Ew Thats kool, anybody can help me to find out SATA DRIVER FOR ACER TRAVEL MATE 2410 ??? Thank you!

HILLO, I HAVE HP DV7 PAVILION, I DON'T KNOW WERE TO DOWNLOAD SATA DRIVER........PLEASE HELP ME........?I HATE VISTA.........

Really an extraordinarily helpful posting. I *do* own a floppy drive but it's in the wrong PC and I absolutely did not relish unplugging everything, opening the box, moving the floppy across etc. Your tutorial was simple, well-illustrated and, most importantly, the process works. Many thanks, Jason

can any one tell me inspration 1525 (DELL LAPTOP) hard drive driver in the net. please help.

Click "Download now" (Intel Driver)
Vista:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?os=WLH&osl=EN&catid=27&impid=-1&servicetag=&SystemID=INS_PNT_PM_1525&hidos=WLH&hidlang=en&TabIndex=
XP:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?os=WW1&osl=EN&catid=27&impid=-1&servicetag=&SystemID=INS_PNT_PM_1525&hidos=WLH&hidlang=EN&TabIndex=
run .EXE to unpack, read README and use.

i'm getting frustrated i did everything and i get an error message with the new nlite boot disc, "the file iaStor.sys is corrupted" and truthfully i'm about to toss this computer out the window... is a Gateway laptop model MX6920 if anyone is willing to give me a hand i will appreciate it.

Thank you. All works perfectly on GATEWAY M685-E.
The Gateway website provided SATA drivers. I had to choose the one containing 32-bit Windows XP. Inside the driver there was a file to create a flappy disk ;) to load with F6 during Windows installation. Instead, I used WinImage extracted the ini file and loaded (text more) with nLite. Check carefully that you have use the correct driver for the SATA controller.
VISTA SUKS!

Wow! THis is great. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out that the F*** was going on with the SATA driver and the USB Floppy I have for the install. This worked great! Much Thanks. Gateway M465G

Bill

Amazing!!!Simply outstanding trick!!!
Dragos you are the 'Man of the Year - 2009' for me!!!
I was wandering here and there to get rid of Vista without reformatting and losing data. I was googling like anything.
And finally this article came to me like a message of GOD!!!
My laptop vendor told me it can't be done normally and he would take F****** INR 2000 ($40) to install dual boot without licensed copies of OS and with a pain all previous data going to hell!!
But I found Dragos like angel!!!

My laptop is HP dv6907tx Entertainment series which cam preinstalled with Windows Vista Home Basic OS. Better than OS I would like to call it as VIRUS!!!
I was about to buy USB floppy drive to give last try but Dragos changed the way of thinking to get rid of SATA lock!!!

I would like to recommend to my friends also about this way.

Before you begin the installation I would like to share some optimising / cost saving tricks before you though.

1) Use re-writable cd/dvd disk for buring your SATA embedded XP package.
This will save your money if you did not find correct SATA drivers for your HDD as you can re-erase and re-write to such disks.

2) Use nLite application to burn ISO image.
Other apps may not work!

3) Before downloading / hunting for your suitable SATA drivers on internet ,
look if you have Intel Matrix Storage Storage console installed on your Vista machine already. If it there then, go to C:Program FilesIntelIntel Matrix Storage Manager.... or something like that.
In this directory you can find one folder called 'Drivers'.
These are the nothing SATA drivers. Normally one OEM(OMV?) file, two CAT files, two INF files, one unidentified systeminformation file.

Pick that all to manipulate your XP package using nLite.
It worked great for me!!

The thing is that, SATA drivers ;I think has nothing to do with OS specification. They are meant for way of storage and data access optimisation.

I even found that Sound Card drivers (RealTek) are the same one for XP and Vista , might be only true in the case of HO laptops.
But it is worth to give a try as it may reduce your further headache of hunting all new drivers for XP.

Thanks once againg to Dragos and all,
Regards Mayur

there is several "textmode integration options" in "storage device textmode driver"... i do not know which i must chose for my SATA driver for dell 1525. Do you know it?

i have
acer aspire 4710
with sata hd 120gb mitsumi
intel core duo
1024mb ddr2

how to get the sata driver??
and which one is the sata driver..
is that in the f6floppy disk folder..
coz i download from acer site...
http://www.acerpanam.com/synapse/forms/portal20.cfm?recordid=4506&formid=3394&website=AcerPanAm.com/au&siteid=8116&words=all&keywords=&areaid=12

but there are download with folders..
AHCI, subfolder HESBC002, then subfolder f6floppy utility, after that 2 subfolder f6flpy32 and f6flpy64.
so which one is the correct folder driver to use..

confused

Your guide solved my problem. Thanks for the clear instructions. After wiping Windows Vista from my Gateway MX6958 notebook, the Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005 installation could not find any hard disk drives because my notebook uses a SATA drive but the XP MCE installation CDs do not ship with SATA drivers for my notebook. I added the gateway driver set "D20035-001-001" to the XP MCE media using NLite software. Then, I booted with the "modified" XP MCE installation DVD (Nlite even merged 2 CDs into 1 DVD) and the hard disk was recognized again. There was no need to press F6 during the XP installation to add extra drives.

Thx mate for the expanation.
Very clear and a step-by-step procedure.
Thumb up mate. Keep up the good work.

Cheers

What an awesome tool! I've been dogged by this floppy need on this MB for the last several years. Now, I've been also able to integrate an SP into it to save me some time - super awesome. Great job on the documentation.

my cousin has a compaq presario cq40,will it work for fine for the laptop?

You are the MAN!!! I bought a new top of the line system...that didn't have a floppy!

This took care of the problem.

Great job. Great explanation

This worked great! My wife's Compaq Presario V3000 needed the Intel ICH8M driver, and had no floppy drive. nLite integrated it just fine (actually, nLite crashed the first time, I think because the original install of WinXP is Chinese language... setting the language default to English got it to work).

WinXP installed without a hitch after that.

Thank you!

i installed the nLite software correctly and add my add SATA file to the image shown in the tutorials then burned an xp image file . After reboot with the XP disc it didn't find my SATA hard disc. is any problem in the driver? My motherboard is MSI K8MM-V. help me..

When you select the driver destination, for example: c:mydrivers184.32 ... but my problem is i don't have any drivers organized in a folder, will an application work? ex: c:mydriversalienwaredriversetup.exe - will this still work? and if not, how do i extract the drivers from a setup file? thank you.

I'm going nutz!!!! I've followed all the steps and have burned about 8 supposedly bootable xp disc with no luck. They just won't BOOT! Vista is causing me sooo much grief. Its a brand new Gateway. All SATA. No way to change BIOS to accept an IDE. CAn someone PLEASE tell me how to load the SATA drivers using a floppy. I really would appreciate. thanx. gk

I really needed this yesterday, but right now will do just fine! Awesome... thank you!

I tried this and it doesn't work. After I burn the ISO to a DVD, my windows disc is no longer bootable anymore. wtf?

THis ISO image that nLite creates....its saved in a WInZip file. If I extract them to a folder can I burn them on another computer? I'm using my new Vista controlled Gateway and it just won't let nLite burn it for me. Everytime I try to burn it with Gateways burner (9 times and counting) the computer will not boot from them!!! The drivers embedded perfectly as plannned but I just can't get a cd to boot. Help. Puleeze. gk

Thanks Johann. Now my Lifebook S can find my WD1200BEVT simply by just disabling AHCI (not even SATA) from the BIOS. Now I am installing XP! Can't guess how many hours I will have to spend just trying to find the darn drivers from WBC and make the CD if I do not find your little reply here. I think the author should update his article to mention this. It will say people a lot of time.

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* THE ANSWER IS HERE!!! YOU MAY NOT EVEN NEED TO DO ALL THIS *
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Thank you so much! This guide really helped me!!

I have been trying to load XP for 2 weeks with no luck, but your way seems
promising but i get stuck when i get to the stage where you must add drivers
and i downloaded the right drivers, can you please talk me through the stage where i have to load drivers and create a bootable disc.

I have a Gateway cx2618. I downloaded the driver from the Gateway website but nlite doesn't recognize as a driver. It is an executable and does not give me the option to put it on anything but the floppy.

You rule man! Many thanks! I am now installing XP 64-bit with the SATA HDD in AHCI mode on an HP dc7900 and the install is working fine for the first time ever!

Hello!
Please advise me where you have got drivers for dc7900. Drivers from HP are not working
Thanks!

Thanks a million for this ! With this info I was able to recover the data from my corporate laptop of which I did not have a backup !

I tried the same for Win2003 Enterprise Edition... but it does not work. I have HP DV2918TX.
Please help me.
Thanks :)

I tried this also but was not able to get it to work. In my case, I was trying to slipstream the RAID driver for my Intel DP35DP motherboard. Like so many others I found out on the Web, I got the "File iaStor.sys file is corrupt" error at the point where it tried to load the driver. (And, yes, I am *absolutely sure* I was using the correct driver, I did pick textmode, all that stuff.)

I was able to slipstream another I/O driver with no problem at all, so the basic method as outlined here works fine. It's just that there's something weird about the iaStor.sys driver or the INF files that make things go wrong.

I was finally able to get XP installed by adding an entry in the "txtsetup.sif" file on the Windows install CD so that it would recognize my USB floppy drive. Then, I was able to use the F6 method to install the drivers (the same ones I had tried to slipstream) and all was well.

VAM

That's weird as I tried vista 32 bit business edition until Vista service pack 1 came down the pipe and caused my copy of Vista to take a instant dislike of USB devices which ment my system would lock up after 30mins to 1hour therefore I reinstalled Windows XP Pro back onto my mechine which just happens to have a DVD-RAM Lightscribe drive and a WD250AAJS harddrive boath which are connected to the M2N68-LA Narra 3 motherboard and did not have to install SATA drivers so what is the fuss. Maby my sata drivers where on the Install disc but I don't think so.

This has been an awesome help. Many grateful thanks. Worked perfect the first time around!! Got rid of Vista on Sony Vaio VGN-NR220E and put in XP. Also, dowloaded all drivers from Sony support for XP for that machine. It was great.

Thanks for such dedication and looking out for others.

i need help. i just bought a fujitsu siemens amilo pi3450 with vista. i want to format it and get windows xp. cannot find any SATA Controller drivers to use with the nlite. searched all over thw net but its impossible please help....!!! my hdd is a Western Digital WD3200BEVT

Another satisfied customer. Thanks for the great info. With your help, I was able to successfully free a family member's laptop from the clutches of Vista. Thanks again!

i have downloaded the n lite sofware and installed it.. but tre ia an error in running the application like application failed to initialize... can anyoone help me on this plsssss....

hi thanks so much for your tutorial the hole thing makes sence to me. but i cant fine the driver. if some one could help me. the computer is a TOSHIBA satellite A200 PSAF3A and the hard drive is a FUJITSU mhy21608h.

thank

Yet another factory-installed Vista removed on a Gateway laptop sans floppy, and XP added. My wife is now very happy with her laptop. You helped me do what I'd thought was impossible and be the hero.

Like others, I couldn't get the .iso file to become boot-able when copied via Nero. So, just used the Burn Image commandd in nLite and it worked great! nLite is a great program - who knew - and your line-by-line instructions on how to use it and slipsteam the drivers (and SP3...) were excellent. Thanks for providing it!

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I accidentally bought an Asus K8v-MX/s thinking it was the K8v-MX. It was an OEM from Fujitsu-Siemens. It took a long time to find the right drivers and also determine that the SATA drive had to be jumpered to 150. Even after hooking up floppy disk disk drive and putting drivers onto floppy could not get it to work. The one stumbling block was adding drivers during Integration Step. Thanks to one poster for text mode tip. In order for that option to be available, you must put the textsetup.oem file in the same directory as the drivers. Once I did that, it was a snap. For those who keep saying you can disable SATA in bios, that is not an option for all bios. Most likely, older boards (such as mine) and oem boards do not have the most robust or current bios. Therefore, this option works like a charm. Wish I would have seen this webpage prior to wasting 20 hours. Thank you once again.

Very good - I was so annoyed that I didn't have any floppy disks and I just wanted to get Windows on my media center (so many dramas).

Thanks very muchly.

Grant

Just wanted to thank you for your above solution. I had been working on a Compaq 6910P and getting frustrated for not being able to install Windows XP Pro SP3. Thank again for all your help, it worked great. Abraham Chavez (K&H Computer Solutions)

Thank you very much - I managed to finally install Hp Compaq nw8440 notebook with SATA working properly (no more windows bluescreen while booting)

Everything I needed was:

* UltraISO (tryout trial was enough) - to extract drivers from HP installation programs (image) - it was really fun - you have to extract sp32478.exe, then exract F6flpy32.exe and finally you can use UltraISO to extract drivers from temp.IMA - see http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1237717317360+28353475&threadId=1187686 for details
* nLite - to modify WinXP installation image (add drivers), create new image and burn it
* Then, during installation the only thing was to pres F6 - and installation worked fine
* Later, I experiences problems with unknown devices - "Mass Storage Controller" - it was necessary to install Texas Instruments Media Card Reader Driver, and 2 more unknown devices - resolved by installing HP Quick Launch Buttons and HP Embedded Security for ProtectTools and Infineon TPM Driver - see http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=1839210&prodSeriesId=1839152&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1093 for complete list of drivers for NW8440.
* and note that for bluetooth you need Intel PRO/Wireless Drivers (Broadcom Wireless LAN Driver - this is WIFI only)

I my last message I said I don't know what to choose on the list for txt integration. I mencioned I have a Toshiba Satellite A200-21T but I didn't mention what I'm trying to instal - windows XP Professional. Can somebody help me please?

I tried Nlite and followed all the instructions, but the laptop still does not see the hard drive, I am going to try to buy a USB Floppy drive and see how it goes. Thanks for your posting.

I read all the instructions and followed them. I created and burned the ISO. My computer will not boot up the disc. So I direct burned them once to see if that worked. It booted up but didnt install the drivers. I am stuck, I created another ISO and will burn it here soon to see if that works. Do I have to do something other than just create and burn the ISO to get it to load up like a bootable disc? Maybe its the disc I am using? If it does bootup do I still have to do the f6 install for the sata drivers? Can someone please help me with this problem.

I have a new Dell XPS 730 with Vista that I want to change to XP. This is a RAID/SATA system. PATA is disabled. My storage controllers are Microsoft iSCSI Initiator, NVIDIA nForce RAID Controller, and NVIDIA nForce SATA controllers. I am having a hard time finding XP specific drivers for these on the web. My question is can I use the drivers on the Vista machine? I don't know much about the rules for drivers. I looked at the details using Device Manager and the only driver that made any reference to Vista was the iSCSI Initiator in the description. Are hardware drivers OS specific? I would appreciate your help.

After initial failures because I was adding the wrong drivers, I finally got this to work for XP x64 with my new Dell Inspiron 530s. It was preloaded with dreaded Vista 64.
Drivers I need to incorporate into the burned ISO image:
1) Intel(R) Chipset Device Software. This was needed for the HD controller. Make sure to get the one that supports x64 bit XP.
2) Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver for x64.
Oh, another thing was when selecting the matrix storage manager driver I clicked on the Plug n Play (PNP) mode, and NOT the text mode.
Good luck. It was not an easy process, but it did get me past my problem of the install not finding my hard drive because of not recognizing the SATA hd. Patienceis the key and getting the right drivers splipstreamed.

All I can say your the greatest. Bye bye Vista Hello XP. Program works awesome. Wish I had known about this years ago. Life saver. Thanks again.

This solution did work great but I also found the text file drivers were needed (wasted one CD using PNP drivers).

I am following these steps. and i burned ISO file on the CD. but it is not bootable. do i have to care of something else during buring the ISO file on CD.
Help wil be appericiated.
Rikky

I also have a lenovo 3000 n200. Itried to do this but I think I didn't have the correct drivers. Could you tell me what drivers did you use and where did you get them from. I'd really appreciate the help.

My sister's husband bought a Sony Vaio Laptop, Model No. VGN-CS215J. The laptop was installed with Windows Vista Home Edition, which we both hated very much. We decided to install XP Pro on this 64-Bit System. But i was continuously disappointed while installing XP. Everytime i tried, Before installing it returns to blue screen saying ............ I was very tired of this and angry as i was already fdisk the hard-disk to install XP since i was failed couple of times. Then i google for it, and it return to me this site. Even with the processor my luck ran out. I was not sure which file to choose to intregate as there was lot of stuff going on to this thread i had no patience at all to go for each comment. Finally, i saw i can add all files to integrate with XP. And it saved my life.

Those who facing the problem blue screen while installing XP. Kindly follow this process:
1) When you at the stage of Integrate, select multiple drivers> then when u select the folder where you downloaded Sata drivers frm your manufactures (if they do not providde then google for it), when you select it will find a lot of options to select. Just Press "CTRL" Key and select all driver one by one. And Click ok. then do all other steps as said. There you have the CD with all drivers of Sata integrated and you no need to worry which driver to select as windows automically select the required one.

Nothing you need to do while installing XP. Just with the CD you boot it. and stay still and will be done successfully. :)

thanks.... i am burning a modified version of XP to install this on my old computer... i just installed a WD500 disc.

tomorrow i tell ya how it works!

I downloaded the drivers for my sata hard drive wd800jd and started nlite and selected my windows xp cd and the drivers folder to combine them and then make and iso to burne and make a new install disk then i boot from the new disk and gives an error about loading fasttx2k and if i try F6 it still asks me for my floppy A: witch i don't have. now what?

i have read the whole page and i tried to install xp on my hp dv5 1106ax many times..................but the only thing i get is a blue screen at the time when it asks for formatting drive.... may be i am using the wrong sata drivers or the ahci raid drivers but i cant the drivers for my system anywhere can anybody help me..
iam having an rm-70 motherboard i.e. amd chipset with ati 3450 and turionx2
and a wd hard drive
please help my find my drivers o integrate with n lite

You are Really great!!!!!!!!............. Your solution really worked for me flawlessly... It put to an end for so many hours of painful reinstalls I was trying to get it worked. THANK YOU!!!!.........

Nice, very complete guide.

However, as some have already pointed out, there are BIOSes that will let you configure your disk interface to be fully XP compatible: in that case, you don't need to find your drivers and integrate them in the XP installation disk, simply setting the right BIOS option will do.

I installed XP on an Acer Extensa 5230E, the BIOS option was "SATA mode" and you could toggle between "AHCI" and "IDE". I set it to "IDE" and could install WinXP as straightforwardly as usual.

I have hp pavilion dv6623cl notebook and i want to install windows xp on it... for this purpose i need SATA drivers to put them in floppy disk. i searched it on the manufacturer webpage but could not find there. can someone tell me from where i can get the drivers for SATA hard drive

to:Dragos Jijau

i just really need to say thank you very much to you.
because by your explonation and describe, finally i can install windows xp-2 to hard disk sata. may god bless you man..
once again, thank you very much..

cowokcakepp
jakarta

Si inca o data am cazut de acord ca DA, romanii sunt cei mai tari. Super tare Dragos

Dead man became alive, the day I bought pavilion with Vista i died on the spot when I opened it. After one year of wandering in the wilderness of Vista with all its gimmick and glittering, with billions of bilious blue blistering unnecessary animations which burned my eyeball then my bloody brain etc etc... I came back alive when i read your well explained stages of installing XP in HP Pavilion where it was very difficult to find a way to install it. Thank you very much for helping people like me who was thrilled and enthusiastic when saw Vista, but when my eyeball and all other balls were lost and found after reading your post. I decided to offer a free recipe of 'vista ball spicy hot and sour chilly soup' to Mr. Bill Gates who created Vista with a million percussion all over the world just to fool and again fool people like me.

Hello,

I wonder if anyone could possibly point me in the direction of a source for the Sata drivers for the ASROCK 775i65G motherboard, I've been to the ASROCK web site but couldn't seem to find anything? I wish to add a Sata drive and Install Windows XP home on it but I believe I need the Sata drivers first.

Many thanks

thank you thank you thank you, perfect example of a well thought out tutorial and excellent solution, I can't thank you enough! keep em coming!

it's the better thing i have ever seen
thank you so much
it solves many problems

Good work!!! Bravo Dragos! A mers din prima pt Lenovo Thinkpad SL500.
Felicitari pentru articol!

Great Article. Saved me from loading Vista!!!.

Hi,
I am another victim of "Vista-Only" laptop. I did all steps explained here. With external floppy driver, with slipstreamed installation cd etc...always stucked in the same place and get 0007B error.
I am afraid I have a model specific problem. So I want to know if there is anybody having the same laptop as me.
I have HP Pavillon DV 5 1254 eg. (Intel CPU)
I downloaded the driver coded "SP37005.exe" from HP web site. Used nLite in both PNP and TXT mode. No positive result. I would really appreciate if someone give a hint about what is wrong.
Cheers,

Ok. It was a wrong driver problem. Now solved. However thanks to all for the valuable comments under this topic which helped me to defeat Vista from HP Pavilion.

I've burned my new Setup CD with nLite and the integrated drivers, and it boots fine into Windows XP setup, but do I now press F6? Or should it automatically pick up on my integrated drivers?

Whichever options I choose it always ends up with the "Setup could not find any hard drive...etc".

The integrated drivers are from Gigabyte's site, I'm using the GA-EP43-DS3R and trying to install XP on a Seagate Barracuda on SATA with no floppy disk drive.

Please help someone :(

Who ever Drago is; he may, oneday, have his own monument. According to all the comments this thing should work and I just want to say THANK YOU. I'm doing this for my cousin and hope this works. But still this is a very useful post and the nLite will make me happy multiple times in the future. Thanks again OP!!

Hello. Thank you VERY MUCH. Your post helped me to solve my problem after fighting with XP installation on SATA HDD. I spentabout 8 hours before I found you solution. I have my XP now :)

Can someone please help? This article seems to have everything I need, and I was doing just fine until I got to the actual integration of of the sata driver. I'm using a desktop (running Vista) to make an XP install for a laptop with sata hard drive. My laptop was from Dell, so I downloaded the 'driver file' they provided at the support page, which was in .exe form (does not integrate). So, I ran the .exe, and it unpacked the files ... but there are still no .inf files in the folder that it was unpacked into! There are .bat files, .ini files, .exe files, .blz files, a whole bunch of freaking files in the new driver folder ... but none of them are .inf files. I tried running the driver unpacker as an administrator, but got the same result. Virtual cookies to whoever can help me figure this out!

Man,Thanx for ur article. At least it helps me to get rid from floppy dilemma. But there is one thing I need to confirm. Do I need to turn off the SATA function before beginning the XP installation or it needs not? Bcuz when I install XP with the function turns on,my system couldn't recognize the SATA HDD. But when I turned it off, then it can recognize the HDD. What will happen if I let this n proceed to the installation progress? Does XP able to recognize it once it is installed?

well i am now burned the CD wiht the drivers i think are my sata drviers.
Thats becuase the site wiiht drivers for my computer dont have much info about it and i am not sure is that are these the ones.
in Bios seens like there is an option but unlucky me my bios has almost no info or options jsut the hour and day to change o_O

if work i come here tell my thanks

Thanks for the helpz. Finally a good working solution and e very decent walkthrough.

Wow! this is GREAT.... This one help my problem 3mon life cycle, and THEN! BWALAAAAA!!!!!!!

You deserved all the appreciation you had, and I will not forget this "Dragos Jijau" anymore... A million of thanks to GOOGLE always, a billion of thanks to nLite and comp. and a countless thanks to the one who made this POSTS....
May the GOD of elements from heaven blessed you always. Keep up the good work and the brilliant spirit will pay you ahead.

Thank you Dragos Jijau,

This was the one and only solution for my Sony Vaio.
There was nothing in the bios about AHCI or RAID to disable so i had to install the driver. I used text mode for my Intel ICH9M-E/M. Thank you verry much for this short and clear guide.

ok, everyone with SATA/RAID setup systems:, YOU HAVE TO SLIPSTREAM THE FILES WITH THE TXTSETUP.OEM file, and use "TXT mode"! OTHERWISE you'll end up wasting 10 dics like I did, till i finally go this.. good luck yall!
P.S. I have a RAID 1 setup (400g), and I kept getting BSOD and "unknown dics", until i slipstreamed the directory with TXTSETUP.OEM and finally the damn xp saw the RAID drive! yeah!! lol

Hey, I got as far as partitioning the HD with this boot disk. But then it says I have no hard drive!!!!!!!!!I'm So close!!!! Someone please help. I've got a Gateway M series laptop! Has this happened to anyone else?

Thank you so much for this guide. I was quite distraught when my brand new hdd wasn't being recognized by xp.

OMG I was so stupid!!!! Don't waste time trying to pick one driver from the folder. select them all and stream the lot of them onto the disk. You will have to reinsert the disk again during reboot and start up process, just re-insert, press enter and ....WELCOME TO XP LAND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!!!!!!!!! THANKS A MILLION FOR THIS PAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAW!!!!!!!!!!!youre the best!
KILL VISTA! LONG LIVE XP!

This was an amazing article. I was going insane trying to install a clean version of XP on my HP. I thought my HDD was bad. Thanks a million.

Can u recommend a driver for a WD SATA2 HDD WD3200AAKS

I've been on their website and the only option is a data lifeguard tools programme which doesn't appear to be the thing I'm searching for.

its so frustrating being this close to getting my computer to work!!!

worked FLAWLESSLY!!! I am very pleased!

I don't know if I should select all drivers in text mode or just some?
I notice one is definitely the right one among certain things in chipsets (ich9r) but then there is esb2 and i thought maybe i should do all to have that too...

I also have the option of choosing IDE in the BIOS, but how do I install XP in a partition I've made? When I boot from the installation CD it just starts installing without give me the option of choosing where I want to install. I get scared at this point and abort the installation. I want dual OS's, that is I want to keep the Vista and utilities that came installed but have the option of running either XP or Vista. I do have VistaBootPro but it only works once XP is installed on a partition. Any ideas?

Tomasel wrote: I installed XP on an Acer Extensa 5230E, the BIOS option was "SATA mode" and you could toggle between "AHCI" and "IDE". I set it to "IDE" and could install WinXP as straightforwardly as usual.

I have an Acer laptop E525 and I've changed the BIOS to "IDE." I'd like to install XP on a partition I've created in order to use both VISTA and XP, dual OS. When I boot from the XP installation CD the installation begins immediately without me having a chance to choose where I want to install XP. I'm afraid if I keep going I'll lose VISTA and all my utilities. Any help? Thanks.

dude.. i have done everything but the cd won't boot.. help pls. T_T

When i put my xp disc in and restart and cd boot first it says setup is loading... then gets the blue screen of death? do you know why

Excellent article. Well written and easy to follow. Solved a huge problem!!

thanks

Thanks - that worked perfectly! Nlite is great :)

hello everybody.i have read all info about nlite and sata drivers,but i dont know the way(path),i had to take.for example: i must put on my dvd driver a new cd,and after all(nlite) i have to burnt it with daemon?please help me,because i dont know the right way.(if you can,step by step please!)

(my laptop is an amilo xi2428)

thanks a lot

Mark,
"XP should install fine on SATA drives provided you dont enable AHCI or RAID in the Bios.
A much easier method & less complicated. "

ur genius, just disable AHCI or RAID in BIOS and XP recognizes the SATA drive.
In my case, i just disable AHCI. GENIUS!!

Thanks Mark

Casty

The only reason you do it the long way is to use all the new drives features... Like NCQ etc. Otherwise your fancy new SataII drive is treated like an IDE drive by the system.

yes but you can install the SATAII drivers via CD or flashdrive once you have already installed XP, no?

OMG!! after about 8 hours and a lot of money spend on helpdesk we tried this and it works!!
Thanks so much!

Hi Dragos,

Well done. This solution helped me to install XP on a new hard disk on Sony Vaio. The install was not detecting the hdd earlier. And now I am able to format the HDD with your instructions.

Thank you very much for this detailed instructions.

Regards
Jomon

Excellent documentation! Thank you very much Dragos!

Saroj,
Oxford

Excellent guide. Saved me from installing Vista as I couldn't find my floppy disk or floppy drive connector to load sata drivers for xp.

HELP!
I installed nLite v1.4.9.1 and it starts normally.
When I insert the WinXP installation CD it starts copying, but when it finishes it just shows the information about the Windows and it freezes.
I have tried copying the files from CD to hard disk and then loading them into nLite, but it still freezes after showing Windows information.
I seriously consider buying USB Floppy drive (I have a laptop - Fujitsu Siemens Amilo PRO v3505 - with SATA HD). This seems not to be worth the trouble.

uhhmmmm.. i havent tried this course yet.. but i have an acer aspire 5710 and currently running in windows vista.. i want to change the OS in windows XP professional but it says HDD cannot be found.. I just cant see where i canf find to toggle the AHCI or RAID in my BIOS.. please kindly tell me where i can find it in the bios system.. Any suggestions sir.. I will try this course of step later.. But i think i will be going the long way but effective.. thnx for this info sir.

Exellent instructions on how to create Windows XP with SATA drivers, very usefull. Thanks

I have bought my Dell studio 1555 Laptop with pre Installed Vista,I tried to Install Xp with the option in BIOS for SATA has ACHI but I couldn't do it.Then I changed the option to IDE,I could Install Xp.But the problem is with Dual Booting,I need to change every time in BIOS,for Vista ACHI and for Xp to IDE.

can anyone suggest me,what to do without changing option in BIOS?????

Thanks a lot!
Your explanations are very accurate and works fine.

the file viamrx64.sys is corrupted!!

can anyone tell me y this error is popping

Adrian

I had the same Problem. This is how it worked for me:

Select the right folder in the packege with all the possible drivers for all the operating systms, i.e. Windows_V-RAID_V580FVRAIDDrvXPx86 since I am using regular XP, not 64 bit.

Make sure to check the textmode button. At first, nLite would not display it. I had to copy the textsetup.oem file into the folder listed above. Upon this, the textmode option appeared.

I found the textsetupfile under Windows_V-RAID_V580FVRAIDDrvdrvdisk

I hope the pahts correspond to your case with a VIA chipset

Thanks ............ it worked
1 suggestion that when adding the driver file in nlite , download the sata Raid drivers of your motherboard model and extract them then in those files there will be a file named txtsetup.oem . rename it to txtsetup.inf then in the nlite choose this txtsetup.inf file and text mode will appear.

and before starting setup copy any .sys files and add them to the i386 windows installation folder from where u will run the setup

Now my problem =
windows installed successfully but now after install windows dont run, it reboots.

thanks

i can't find a sata drive for my laptop -msi s420
http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=downloaddetail&type=driver&maincat_no=135&prod_no=1030
is it in one of those????
PLEASE PLEASE I NEED MY LAPTOP 2 WORK :(

I'm not sure who posted it, but my solution was to go in to the BIOS and change the HD mode from SATAII to IDE even though I am using the SATAII cable and motherboard port.

So go in to your BIOS and try it this way! It's much faster.

Thanks for all the great info in this article and replies.

I followed these instructions and booted my PC up with the disk in. Are you supposed to press F6 with this new process? I tried it both ways (F6 and no F6). Neither worked. I still get the message"

"Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer"

Any ideas?

Followed the directions to the "T", and did not work. And I am sure I have the correct SATA driver off of the Western Digital site. Another hour wasted.

god bless this article and its author, when will someone start making 3rd party lap parts so we dont have to deal with balony

Every time i copy WINDOWS to another folder it freezes as soon as its done, it says scanning but never stops......what am i doing wrong?......some one please help!!!....what should i do?

I have done all the steps and burned the cd but my computer will not recognize the cd. the message I get is DISK BOOT FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. I used imgburn to create the cd. Can someone please help?

(Sniff) (Sniff) it actually worked.....For 4 days straight I've been stuck behind a laptop with no OS now I'm back on. No more relying on my friend for his poor computer. I HAVE XP!!!!!!

Hello, I looked everywhere online but can't find the SATA drivers for HP Compaq CN6220. I learned from Drago how to add them to my Windows XP with NLite but cannot find these drivers. I am stuck and cannot install Windows XP because the CD does not have these drivers. Please Help! Thank you.

Hello, I looked everywhere online but can't find the SATA drivers for HP Compaq CN6220. I learned from Drago how to add them to my Windows XP with NLite but cannot find these drivers. I am stuck and cannot install Windows XP because the CD does not have these drivers. Please Help! Thank you.

Great article and a necessary one if we are going to continue using Windows XP instead of the Windows Vista and Windows 7 crap Microsoft is throwing at us. The procedure using Nlite works fine, just follow the directions carefully! Try to use the manufacturer's website to find Windows XP sata or mass storage drivers or find out the chipset on your computer's motherboard and go to the chipset's maker for their native drivers. You can use a USB connected floppy drive and test the drivers using the F6 switch in the XP install. For some reason this works fine and the XP install will initially see your hard drive but will choke later on and fail the install. But, this will let you know early if the sata drivers are correct and you can use these in your Nlite program without the hassle of guessing.

You are the man!!! I followed exactly what you said and everything went MARVELOUS!!!! THANK YOU.

Guys, I am struggling to fix my laptop for almost 5 days. I saved all my files by using Ubuntu but now i cant find the Driver for my SATA hard drive to put it on the Xp install cd using nLite. hard drive model number is Seagate st96812as and im trying to reinstall my Hp Pavilion DV6000, Please help me to find this driver thank you

Hi, guys I am struggling to install Xp on a HP DV6000 with a Seagate st96812as model hard drive. It gives me the death screen saying, it preventedme from doing further damage... I am so close to solving it... but I cannot find my hard drives driver to put it on the XP cd by using nLite..Please help me
HP pavilion dv6174cl
Seagate- st96812as -60gb hard drive Momentus 5400.2
cant find the necessary driver from seagates website as it's stupid and complicated to find from...

Thank you

Hi, guys followed all the steps... but stuck on puttin the driver inside the cd by using nLite, which driver am I suppose to use? Do I have to search it for my mainboard or hard drive??? again DV6174cl with a seagate HD

This is a great article... The only downside is that if you want to install Windows XP in another computer with the same problem you'll have to do it all over again. There's any way to create like a MULTI-SATA Win XP disk? It will be great... I'm gonna be checking arround.

Absolutely Great!!

I did it all at once, XP, SP2, my drivers and Direct Burned the ISO using Nlite all in one session. Worked like a charm! Man, that's sooooo much easier! Plus I will always have the CD, since I'm keeping XP for a long time to come, instead of going to Vista or 7.

Nlite is really fantastic! It really is simple to do.

I've done 2 different systems so far, with different sata drivers and they both worked without a hitch.

Hello!Thanks for your method.It's cool.But,I have an issue:when I try to boot the new Windows CD with sata drivers,an error apears when loading some files at the end of process.What can I do?
Thanks!

Followed your directions and you are the BOMB !!!!
Many Thanks

thank you so much!!! i have a new dv6 HP laptop and have tried slipstreaing the sata drivers to the xp install disk using other blogs, but none of them worked besides yours!!!!!

Mr. Dragos I can kiss you, but I will left my lipstick in your cheeks. Thanks a lot for the information great utility.. !

wow !!! thank you. you are wonderfull. without this article i would have thrown my laptop to attic.pl publish an article regarding repairing an installed winXP

Where can I download SATA driver for fujitsu fmv nfa50?
I tried searching in the net but i haven't found anything.
Please help.
Thanks in advance.

I have compaq cq45 205au and i want to downgrade it to WindowsXP, but the setup could not found any hard drive on my laptop, But some friend ask me to get a software install before the setup, Please i want you to help me out, its very importan

This is an excellent tutorial. A perfect score.. Simply what I've been looking for a very long time, this does not only allow you to add these drivers, but anything you want included on your Product Disk, I can include the utilities I have to search for over and over again..

Thanks
Russ

Ideal solution to problem Redmond people knew about but did nothing for us. I find my sata drivers for Panasonic Toughbooks(C30-C19), Fujitsu Lifebooks(T4220-T4210) on the companies Support download drivers website. Same with HP and Compaq sata drives, now ALL of the big names will send you out a recovery CD or DVD, or also called a Restore Disk
if you supply serial number, phone them, and some are free, others a bit pricey, but always better then retail XP box price ! If you ask, may have to call several or write, they do have different OS available. Example:My HP came w/XP Home. I had the restore partition on the drive, and also had a cd set of same. But I noticed the website listed several different recovery/restore disk(s) some single,some several, and XP Home, XP Pro, Vista, XP Media Edition, Win2000 Adv. Srvr., I sent in my $7.50 and in 5 days had a 9 cdrom set that had a full blown XP Pro and tons of applications. For the SATA drivers alone, Fujitsu sends in a EXE file that self extracts to about 6 to 9 small files to place on a FDD or point device manager to. Same with Panaonic Toughbook. All these come with OEM restore DVD and alot of extras. But to try to take a non oem XP and apply it to a floppyless system, this is the only way it can be done unless you learn how to compose an MSBATCH.inf file for
an automated instalation. XP will do the WINNT.EXE and WINNT32.EXE (see syntax /? for styles) if you copy the entire XP cdrom or DVD to a folder, the documentation will suggest folder names:C: $OEM$$(now I have forgotten) where you can leave the sata files for setup to use. Nlite is the ideal way for most people. the comments I have read most of the 350 and so many of you same issues, seems your unaware of your chipsets, motherboard supplier, unaware of bios cmos parameters for choosing CDROM bootup 1st, Some are not even extracting the sata files from the archive first ! Others get sidetracked with the model, brand, size of HDD, it does not matter!Suggest: Go download any company SATA driver set, average size is 250 KB for all the small 5 to 9 files inide the archive. For most all of the files, open them using NOTEPAD and have a read, you will see that they are simply text files to assist the OS in choosing how to handle the signals that are comming in. My laptops each had several sata driver sets I could select. I was not sure at first, so I got all of them. Later I learned that I should have read the laptops spec sheet to know what was in the chipset makeup. Special order models, same as mine can be had with higher end Raid sata chipset. If you have your documentation still, read its detail to locate your model/style sata chip on the bus. For XP that works but always reboots, use the CD to get into either automated recovery or a special msdos mode where you can type commands to repair the MBR code (master boot record) once in type HELP for a list, and /? on any to see what it does. Use another pc to read documentation (Microsoft knowledge base files) on each command, most cases you need to only repair the mbr or set the partition as the active partition, etc. The C:oot.ini has the boot partition by number, usually (1) but if it is in error, you wont bootup. Next project: try to get Win988SE or ME to work on these new laptops !! properly, not crippled..good luck.

Thnk u very much! Now I have made my own modification of Windows XP! It can now detect all kinds of drivers from IDE until the future SATAs' even Removable Storages and Add-ons on your PC like cams, wireless, and etc...

Without nLite, maybe dozens of Floppy drives are already sold in the market...

For all concerns about of what I've did just mail me and I will reply anytime...

Wait, I'm still 15 and still finding for new techniques on how to solve these problems I can create my own modifications of Windows with nLite, Notepad and ResHacker...

nLite - www.nliteos.com (you still need .NET Framework 2!!!) But I have it on my mail...
Notepad - just go to your accessories
ResHacker - I have it on my mail...

Did not work for me. After creating iso opened nlite again and burnt cd (chose burn image). This time XP did boot from cd however still could not find hard drive. maybe driver is wrong but i was pretty sure it was the right one from manufacturers website. Stuck now

Ok, what do i need to do if i wanna install the raid 0. I had the disk made and burned. I know before you have to press F6 during the setup and use a floppy drive to install the raid 0 drivers. Will the new cd created automatically install the raid 0 or do i have change anything in the BIOS first . I have a asus extreme motherboard and two 500g hdd Trying to install Widows XP N SP3. Can anyone help please. Thanks in advance.

i Have Compac Presario CQ60
no function to make BIOS disable for SATA
i try to do this way but it dosent work no solved to my problem
i cant install XP on Vista
any help