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

try to download it at manufacturer website

TS, followed your step to created the xp setup cd and it work. Thanks for the tips.

I'm testing this tools now just bought new Acer Laptops for my friends. Still have problems even though it could detect using the floopy disc but it could not copy the files.

This post has been edited by MX510: Sep 1 2007, 09:53 AM

You're using the external floppy right? I'm not sure why as well because its how XP Setup loads driver by default. Actually i'm having problems with the floppy part earlier and that's why i find other ways to put the drivers into the disc in the first place. Normally it *should* work unless you put in the wrong driver so even if it shows the driver it won't install.

The floppy part of the tutorial is just what you're suppose to do with the drivers and i never created something new. I only made the slipstreaming part which works for me. Perhaps you want to give my slipstream part a try which should save you all the hassle if you're installing XP into more SATA HDD next time as it contains *almost* all common drivers.

EDIT: I did some finding on my part and just for your assurance. From the model of your notebook Aspire 4310 when you put in the driver, XP should load "Intel 82801GM SATA RAID CONTROLLER (MOBILE ICH7MR/DH)".

This post has been edited by SubKi||er: Sep 1 2007, 11:06 AM

THe floppy tricks works but on some Windows XP CD Installer or DVDROM it will not works got sys.os copy error.

Erm? That's the error on my slipstream guide or not?

Because if its not, i can't gurantee that it would be error-less for everyone since everyone would be popping in all different kinds of versions of XP to slipstream

It's already being done using Windows XP March edition. but the problems with acer Aspire 4310 is the Wifi driver is not working. So tension to fix it

I want to ask something.Everyone says you have install sata driver before installing winxp because winxp will not detect sata HDD before driver installation.But that rule looks like not applied for me.Previously I used WinXP SP2 and every I installed windows it will detect and install windows like normally.No need to install driver and all.Can anyone tell whats the reason?

Glad you got it working...

Maybe you want to try slipstream the wireless drivers too

2 reasons :

1) Your XP *IS* already slipstreamed with the drivers
2) All the machine you installed to somehow have native SATA support which turns SATA = PATA which lets XP detect and install.

i want to downgrade to xp from vista
how can i get all the drivers for my aspire 4720?tq
also where can i get all the frivers needed for win xp for aspire 4720?

what should i do before uninstalling the vista because i have the ultimate version.

If its not related question to my guide, i suggest you make a new post on the problem. I want to try keep the thread clean though...

You can't uninstall an OS. Format XP over your Vista and it should be fine.

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/501772.......i have try this ways to install windows xp....but it cant work.....any other way?? thank....


headache....

Your question is too simple that i don't know how to answer you...

thanks dude. like it very much

Glad you made use of it.

help here; howcome "Select the DriverPacks to slipstream" choices are all greyed out??

I've copied the driverpacks into the "DriverPacks" folder in DPS_BASE Folder.


pls help here.


thanks in advanced.

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Added on September 17, 2007, 4:41 amGot it!! in fact you don't have to unzip the driver's pack! just plonk it inside the DriverPacks folder.
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smilie


This post has been edited by tmzz: Sep 17 2007, 04:41 AM

No chance for me to help

maybe ur mainboard oni support for add-on oni. just make add-on as primary boot.

You know what you're posting? Or you're spamming?

erm.. currently im using acer 4720. i'm using the usb floppy to foramt the windows.. but it says th file txtsetup.oem could not be found.. wat should i do??

It means the driver files you copied into your diskette lacks a file which the setup needs called "txtsetup.oem". It should come with the driver. Maybe you want to redownload the driver and recopy into your A:?

in wat condition, we nid to use this one?

Which one are you talking about?

y nid to installing xp with MassStorage(SATA/RAID) driver?

izzit having SATA hardisk, so nid to install in this way?

sorry for noob ques....hehe

I tot i explained it in the first page?

Some SATA devices are not supported on the actual XP setup disc because that CD is kinda outdated. This guide is just to add in more recent drivers so it would detect all the latest SATA/RAID devices during install.

i redownload thwe software form the link that u giv fer many times dy... still having the same problem wo..... how??

How am i suppose to help when i don't even know which you are doing?

You using USB floppy? Or slipstream?

usb floppy

then can u clarify "not supported">?

means cannot start the installation win xp?

You mean you downloaded the drivers a lot of times?

Can you make sure for me you're using GM965 chipset on your laptop? Or at least tell me your specs, like CPU, RAM, Graphic at least...

Not supported here means you will get "Hard Disk not found!" error because there is no proper drivers for the setup to detect the new SATA hard drive system.

i'm using ACER ASPIRE 4720..i download the SATA driver from the link that u giv me...

Can you like answer what i'm asking please? I am worried that you might have a Aspire 4720 that might be different from some other people here. So can you like tell me what CPU and graphics that you are using on your laptop?

As for the link i posted there, i did even tried it myself using a floppy and it does contains txtsetup.oem file for the XP Setup. So in your case the missing txtsetup.oem is almost impossible unless there is something wrong with your floppy drive. Please check again.

sorry for the troublesome. c2d t5250,51mb ram, 120 hdd,x1300 onboard

OK, seems correct...

After you run the setup to create the driver disc, you can make a screenshot of the contents of the diskette?

is this the only contain file?

Figures....no!!

You put that on your desktop, put in the diskette, then run that file...

It should copy the needed files into your diskette. Then you proceed with the setup.

This post has been edited by SubKi||er: Sep 28 2007, 11:47 PM

me also got the same prob

As in you extract the file in the zip into the diskette?

As i said, unzip the file to desktop, run the file and it should create the diskette with the appropriate files for you to detect the drive when you run setup.

SubKi||er, nLite integrated with DriverPack should be no problem right?

my case was F6 process is done with all the needed file copied from the floppy, then error came out with "cannot find file" even the floppy is still inserted when windows started to copy the file from the cd.

nLite integration you have to do a little research of your own as i don't really like nlite that much. My version of integration was done using RyanVM integrator which doesn't mess with this tutorial. nLite do things a little different from this....

as there is 4 things to install
.. which 1 should i install

Now, what 4 things? I don't remember saying anything about installing?

erm.. there is 4 drivers there.. wat i mean is which 1 should i install

ICH9 SATA AHCLController (desktop ICH9R)
82801HEM SATA RAID CONTROLLER(MOBILE ICH8M-E)
82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI CONTROLLER( MOBILE ICH8M-E/M)
ICH8R/ICH9R SATA RAID CONTROLLER
MAY I KNW WHICH 1..

TQ.

82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI CONTROLLER( MOBILE ICH8M-E/M)

thank u so much!!!finally ok already.. but nw another problem.. where can i find 4720 xp driver?

Here's some tips on searching drivers my way...

1) You can try get the drivers from your laptop manufacturer's site.
2) If you can't find, try to get the device name. For example, sound devices mostly from Realtek so you can get it from realtek.com.tw.
3) But the tricky part is to get a programs that would tell you what devices you have. For this, i use Everest by lavasoft but since the free version is no more, you have to find your own programs for this until i can find an alternative for it and maybe make another simple tutorial on that.

subkiller i try your way of the image.
after all done, i burned the xpcd.iso
then load into my laptop
but cant boot from cd la bro.
how? can help?

2 Possibilities :
1) Did you follow my instruction to add the boot image to the disc to make it bootable?
2) Are you sure you booted up the correct disc or drive?

If both are a sure yes, please try the disc on another computer for me...

i add the boot image. but how to make it bootable?

Did you read this part of my guide?



If not please read again...if yes, it should be bootable already, so try the CD on a computer and boot.

i have the iso file generated but how to make it bootable? i dont quite understand your explanation.

Haha, don't worry about my explanation. You're the first who don't understand it

Basically, if you followed the instruction on adding the boot.img it means your CD is already bootable.

After restarting your computer after the BIOS screen appears, please press F12 to get the multi-boot menu and select "CD-ROM" or any devices that the CD is located.

Tell me if this works...

ive already put the boot.img. but if restart still nothing. =(

Restart? you need to read what i'm telling you...

Did you boot CD-ROM?

I followed everything and burned into a dvd+rw. Everything runs ok. I've install in a nforce4 desktop running raid. No problem so far.

Glad its running fine for you

thx alot TS...the tutorials n guides works perfectly and i'm able to install winxp for my friends laptop..Thanks!

Ello peeps I'm having trouble installing WLAN driver on my Aspire 4720. Just downgraded it to XP this morning, everything else worked except WLAN. And there's an exclamation on network controller in device manager. Tried to update it with WLAN drivers I found on Acer China website but to no avail. Would appreciate it if anyone could help me out. Thx

Sure, if only you would tell us what brand and model your WLAN adapter is.

This post has been edited by SubKi||er: Oct 29 2007, 04:00 PM

bro...
why i cant select the driverpack to slipstream?
oredi download the driverpack massstorage and put it same directory with driverpack folder.
but still cannot...


PROBLEM SOLVES!!!!

This post has been edited by hairol83: Oct 30 2007, 04:50 PM


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Oh yeah, that was totally my mistake. I formatted without making sure what the model was. I thought that maybe all the drivers were there.
Had to reinstall Vista just to check that. Yeah, I know, that was totally lame Anyway, I've found the model and the driver for it (Intel Wireless Wifi Link 4965AGN). Thanks for replying though. I appreciate it

Wireless Wifi Link 4965AGN XP driver by Intel

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_res...44&submit=Go%21

got another question..
everything just fine.
except the audio driver..
when looking at device manager the audio already install..
but when i open the control panel to check the sound driver...

aik..
no device found??!!
WTF....
oredi download the Realtek Audio high definition for winXP..
but still no sound..

any idea?

This is seriously out of topic already... No more drivers problem after this please, else i won't answer.

Your Realtek drivers are outdated or something did not install correctly if according to what you're describing is what i'm thinking.

It has something to do with http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888111

This post has been edited by SubKi||er: Nov 6 2007, 03:06 PM

From my PM :

@evilpuppy : HP Website never does provide enough detail on the specification of the laptop you're using because HP seems to have a lot of different hardware configuration for one model series.

You will have to track it by looking at the model number on the bottom side of your laptop. Determine its series 400, series 500 or series 600 nVidia chipset before you download.

Your PM is full

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Added on November 6, 2007, 3:19 pm@evilpuppy: Not that i don't want to reply but tha...



This post has been edited by SubKi||er: Nov 6 2007, 03:19 PM

guys... have problem here... i wanna add new sata drive to my current pc that already have another sata with winXP installed..in BIOS the new drive detected,but in windows cannot detect...so how to make the new sata drive appear on windows??

Detect new hardware? Check your device manager?

i already solve the problem myself..anyway thanx..

rightclick on my computer..click manage
under disk management can see the undetected HDD on windows..
then right click on the undetected HDD and after that i forgot...

Bro,i'm not very understand what u say about this?
Is it we need to check mark the box in the "DrivePack MassStrorage text mode" or we need to remove the check mark on that box? Because i see in your picture, the box left empty..

This post has been edited by one_guy: Nov 8 2007, 12:09 PM