SATA HD Drivers for XP

[uniqueclone]

I didn't see any of those files on the cd that came with the motherboard . . .

I updated BIOS by the way. No change.

 

[Neosphinx]

You should look for the drivers of sata on the website of your mobo manufacturor, if you want, give me the brand and model type and i will look if i can find anything for you

 

[mad.max06]

need help cant get anything to work

I am having problems with installing windows 64x pro on my new sata drives. I have a 36 gig sata rapter and a 250 gig WD sata. Im running a AMD 64bit 4000+ on a gigabyte board, Ga-K8NXP-Sli, 2 gigs of memory and a ega 7800 gt graphics card. The drivers i downloaded from gigabyte's website, for windows 64x pro os, are too big to fit on a floppy. What do I do? I am brand new to raid and sata. My mobo as SATA II connections controlled by gforce4 sli, and SATA connections controlled by Sil3114. I dont know which one to use and i just want the fastest and best config for my system. PLEASE HELP FAST really want to run my new graphics card to see if it was really worth the money.

 

[RKS]

I discuss this very problem (installing onto SATA drive) in my thread "How to set up SATA, SCSI, RAID boot drive (workaround)"

This should get you there:
https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic33846.html

Kind Regards,
Robert Karl Stonjek

 

[boronia]

Obviously the contents of that file are too big to put on a floppy. The only thing you need to have on your floppy are the following files (all located inside the zip file you've downloaded):

• Si3112r.inf
• Si3112r.mpd
• Si3112r.sys
• SIISUPP.VXD
• SIWinAcc.sys
• TxtSetup.oem

With these files on a floppy, once loaded at the beginning of the XP install procedure, it will find your SATA HDD & offer you the option to install XP on that drive.

I've looked on my original mother-board (A7N8X) CD, I've downloaded the drivers from ASUS, but I cant find SIWinAcc.sys on either, I cant find it on my hard drive either. Is it necessary, I am going to do a re-installation of XP shortly.

 

[Didou]

I have just downloaded the latest version on the Asus website & indeed that file is no longer included in the driver's zip archive. I would thus think it's not necessary to have it during the install process.

 

[boronia]

I have just downloaded the latest version on the Asus website & indeed that file is no longer included in the driver's zip archive. I would thus think it's not necessary to have it during the install process.

Thanks for that. I will try it out sometime over the weekend.

 

[basker]

Hello To everyone,
I was wondering if there is someone out there that can guide to me some software that would unlock a SATA Western Digital Hardrive 80GB,
Everywhere I Plug it up it ask me for a Password.. Ive Tried Formating it .. it wont let me access It At all..
Can Someone plz Help...Thank you

 

[ganga]

SATA DRivers

Hello all,

I have a HP notebook nc8430, i am trying to install Xp but it is not supporting, could anyone please help me to install the SATA Drivers on my computer, where can i find the suitable drivers for the HDD.

 

[Clothahump]

I just got a new Toshiba with a Hitachi 5k250 drive. Anyone know where I can get XP drivers for that drive so that I can purge the abortion known as Vista and replace it with XP?

Thanks!

 

[mailpup]

If the drivers are available, you should find them at the manufacturer's website, in this case Toshiba. You are not looking for a driver for a particular brand hard drive but for the SATA controller on the motherboard.

 

[wsnett]

no need for sata drivers just go ahead wiht xp installation and dont press f6 as xp will take default drivers, later you can install drivers,
if its not insatlling please send me the exact maasege you are getting