THX bro !!! i got it !!

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〈=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.

i got this error bro Sub
"stop: c0000221 unknown hard error
\systemroot\system32\ntdll.dll"
(which one shud i choose pnp or text in nlite?)

have anyone know where get download sata raid driver for windows xp?
I face 1 problem when i wan to reinstall windows xp,but can;t detect any harddisk.
my laptop model is>>>V3759TU hp compaq.
urgent help~~~~~~

hihi . I m J0shua
thx for ur post, wil help us a lot.
But how with the compaq model notebook.
can use acer driver also?
;J0shua

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Added on December 14, 2008, 11:29 pm
Are u sure it work?

I cannot say ur not working because I see b4 use pen drive to fix this problems b4.
Last time i press it to find third party driver but ntg happen and keep on installing
The files which downloaded and put into the pen drive is exe file?
I dun like to use nlite etc to fix this problems, It causing a lot of time.
how can get ur help.
;J0shua

srry subkiller. I typing too rush with my broken english.

haha

I mean the file download from acer.com in wat kind of ext?
it's *.exe?
;J0shua

Downloaded file should be *.exe where it should be a tool to prepare your floppy. It would format the floppy and copy all the needed files into your floppy disk.

Updated : Small changes (14th May 08)

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.

Last time my frenz solving cannot detect problem by  upgrade his motherboard bios version only. It's work?

;J0shua

Might be because when he updated the bios, the IDE mode was changed from SATA to AHCI 

hie bro... any1 knows where to get Compaq V3839TU sata driver...? can't seems to get even in google

I bought a CQ-40-128AU the 1st & 3rd choice doesnt seems to be working. I dont have a floppy disc. Help me pls.
I doesnt work coz it did not found the driver rite?
End up having blue screen. Is that normal?

i get this error : Stop 0x0000007B (0xF79E0524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

I think its a problem with your slipstream. Might be your disc wasn't clean initially and the slipstreamer might have spoilt something.

You need a clean XP setup disc before you start slipstreaming it.

I will try another xp cd later and tell you what is the prob
I will try both nlite and slipstream

Tried another xp cd but still the same thing.   

Help ms PLS