Updated : Small note (01st July 09)


!! Please try slipstreaming your XP Setup disc with SP3 and try the setup again before attempting anything below as SP3 setup seems to work fine for most people. !!


There is 3 part of the guide :

• Slipsteam the RAID/SATA drivers to the XP Setup and create an updated driver setup disc
• Load the SATA/RAID drivers from floppy (USB Floppy needed for laptops)
• Slipstream only needed driver to the disc using nLite (Not providing help for this one since not written by me & credits to zea)

Slipsteam the RAID/SATA drivers to the XP Setup and create an updated driver setup disc

! I would recommend that if possible use a CD-RW for your work unless of course you don't mind throwing a CD in case something mess up !

! As to simplify most of the errors that i get through PM, I recommend you to use the vanilla version of Windows XP aka clean setup itself without slipstreams. Avoid any "D3vil SP3 Edition" or such. This is due to the fact that some of these CD might have already been slipstreamed with drivers before and the tools listed here might not recognise the previous slipstreamer and mess up the CD. !

There is an increasing amount of thread on the matter and wish that i could be of some help and solve it easy way. I dare not put this in the Guide section so hopefully if its not appropriate here too, Mods please delete the thread or move it elsewhere. Thanks.

Opening :
Even with the existance of Windows Vista, XP nonetheless is still the choice of OS for a lot of people for now. But because of how old XP is to date and with the emerging of new technologies, the original drivers that came with the XP Setup itself is almost obsolete.

To cut the crap short, laptop doesn't have a floppy drive and XP is unable to load SATA/RAID drivers from another location besides floppy. Of course, not all laptop BIOSes can enable native SATA to emulate PATA hence the existance of this guide. So the only ways to install XP on your ub3r new laptop that runs SATA HDD would be to update the driver database in XP Setup itself.

Tools needed :

• Windows XP Setup CD
• DriverPack
• CDIMAGE GUI (http://unattended.msfn.org/files/global/CDIMAGE_GUI.EXE)(Copy and paste link in new window)
• CD/DVD Burner to burn CD

How-to :
First of all, copy the contents of your CD to a working path, in this case i'll use C:\WINXP

Download DriverPack BASE from the link above as well as DriverPack MassStorage. Extract the BASE pack into a new folder and put the MassStorage pack you downloaded into the DriverPacks folder.

Run DriverPack...



Select "disc" and choose "Browse". Browse the folder which you copied from the CD earlier and in this case it would be my C:\WINXP.

If the setting is grey out like the image below :



The solution : DO NOT extract the downloaded files into DriverPacks folder. Leave intact as is (i.e. copy that archive into DriverPacks folder). The DPs_BASE will automatically do the extraction. See the image below :





If you do it right, you can have the selection as below :



Credits: keyz

Execute DPs_BASE.exe and use the installation platform selected to disc. Browse to the XP working directory you copied from the CD just now, in my case C:\WINXP earlier. Select the DriverPacks list that will appear after loading the working directory and put a check mark on DriverPack MassStorage. Put a tick in the box which says "DriverPack MassStorage text mode". Leave all the other settings as it is if you don't know what is it for.



After you're done with everything, hit the SlipStream! button and wait for the process to finish. The process should finish in around 10 minutes. After the slipstream process is finish, proceed by downloading CDIMAGE GUI. Extract and run the application, only change the "Root DIR" to your working directory in my case C:\WINXP and the "Iso file Path" to where you want to save the ISO file generated.



Select the boot.img file to load the bootable image into the ISO file.



Leave all other settings intact as it should unless you know what its doing. (Thanks Sk8teR)

After the ISO file is generated, burn it with any burning software to a CD and proceed with booting the setup. Your SATA hard drive should be recognised now without the need to press F6 and load drivers.

The DriverPack should contain most SATA/RAID device drivers so it should work on most computers.

The End.

This post has been edited by SubKi||er: Jul 1 2009, 11:22 PM

Load the SATA/RAID drivers from floppy

!! I don't mind looking for drivers for those people in need, but some manufacturers like Compaq is giving me a hard time. They have laptops with the same model number while having different specification from each other which makes it hard for me to find. So i insist that please try to list out your hardware specification as detail as you can for me to help you faster and easier. !!

For those who have access to USB floppy drives, here's the step how you want to get XP Setup to detect your SATA harddrive.

1. Attach USB floppy drive
2. Copy SATA/RAID drivers to a floppy
3. Reboot and boot from XP Setup disc
4. Look at the bottom of the screen and hit F6 when it says "Press F6 to load 3rd party SCSI/RAID Drivers"
5. A screen will show a list of drivers to load from the floppy which in most case only 1 item in the list
6. Select the driver there and XP Setup should be able to detect your hard drive
7. Resume XP installation as how you do normally

Here's a list of drivers to stop everyone from creating new threads to ask for drivers.

! I have updated some of the laptops with its chipset model !
! There are some laptops which their manufacturer haven't put up the corresponding drivers therefore i would link to a generic driver which should work the same. !
! I am just providing these details as per my knowledge to computers and would not hold responsible if any damage is done(which in this case should not be possible) to your computer. !

Acer
Aspire 4710 [i945GM] - ftp://ftp1.acer.com.sg/Support/files/Acer.../XPSP2/SATA.exe
Aspire 4720 [GM965] - http://downloadcenter.intel.com/license_ag...ystems&lang=eng

Dell
Dell Inspiron 1420 - http://support.ap.dell.com/support/topics/...pup&file=205611

Please be awared that for certain cases, drivers would be the same if it is the same chipset. For example, if Aspire 4710 would be a 965GM chipset and 4720 is also using the same 865GM chipset, the same RAID/SATA drivers could be used to do the installation. If you're not sure, please ask first...

Post or PM me the laptop model here and i'll find for you and do the updating here.

This post has been edited by SubKi||er: Apr 18 2008, 07:28 PM

i have a aspire 4720. tried using the same drivers as 4710 b4 but it doesnt work.. could u please tell me which specific driver to use?? i really want to install xp.. thanx.. mayb u can email me, jess_jyl@yahoo.com. thanx

Updated the list, please try the link i provided above.

Thanks SubKi||er for all ur Help....

I should thank you too

Ooh, thanks for the tutorial. Very useful indeed.

alrite,
minor glitch here


my laptop already has pre installed vista home
but tried installing xp since few programs n games that i wanted to use
can be used in vista only
so after cd finished installing & everything,
can's enter windows at all,
got BSOD!!!!

so tried pressing F11 but still no use
so how ah???

You're dual booting or what? I can't really understand since you said you finished installing so i don't think it has anything to do with the CD you created?

Mind telling me what error does the BSOD gives?

ah,
sorry for da lack of info
my bad


ok just did few tweaks, so this is situation rite now
my laptop already has vista home premium
so,
tried dual booting by installing xp pro
now,
i can logon to win xp but not vista

i've read somewhere its about the bootloader for vista being overwritten or something
& most solutions are for
situations where people can logon to vista & needed help to logon to xp
mine is the opposite


so,
hope this helps you so you can help me


alright
prob fixed by using vistabootpro

source:
vista fix

This post has been edited by apache_utara: Aug 12 2007, 01:34 AM

Haha, that's a totally different topic now won't it?

Glad you fixed it.

Thanks mod for pinning this too

does now work on Intel board.....965 LTCK...SOBSOB

does now work?

It should work on every platform provided that the drivers are in DriverPack.

just bought aspire 4720,found these hdd not recognize problem,found these topic and supprise its not only me who get it,and the rest.....bro SubKi||er ! YOU RULE 99x!

No problem dude, just glad that you find it useful...

sir, if i have win xp already install, do i nd those driver pack OR just plug and setup in disk management. sorry for my question because i'm doing google, get some help in LCN since this morning. i decide to do it on my own rather than carry my cpu to computer shop. i need clarification before i go on and buy things.

I don't really get your question so if possible please enlighten me more...

If you are saying that you are going to format the computer or doing any re-installation with the XP CD that don't have SATA drivers on it, then yes, you need driverpack thing unless you do the F6 insert floppy disc part as stated on my guide.

no. i just want to add another sata hdd.

Lawl.

I own a IBM eServer x345.

It's SCSI disks.

Couldn't regconize. =.=

So no choice lol can't find the SCSI driver

Then you can just plug it in and XP should detect it and you can install the driver from there.

You using XP on a server

Please check if your SCSI card is in there if you know which one is it...
http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/devices.php?pag=m

Probably the driver *might* not be in the pack,..

This post has been edited by SubKi||er: Aug 28 2007, 12:26 PM