Comments on: Installing Windows XP On a SATA Hard Drive

By: -=LRO=-

-=LRO=- — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:18:48 +0000

WoW!
Paul, you offered the exact level of accurate detail needed to assist novice and advanced users in conquering the XP/2oo0 install issue on SATA.
However, just like Odyssey, I am a user of Norton Ghost, and need to figure a way to BOOT the SATA via the Ghost PC-Dos based Start-up disk.
I am running an ASUS P5LD2-VM board.
I did use the “MakeDisk” util to make an F6 third party disk for the installation of XPpro, but want to now use this system as my “Ghost box”, to clone or image SATA drives.
So far, I have copied the iteatapi.sys, and pciide.sys and the pciidex.sys files to the floppy. Then added device line(s) to the config.sys file.
Unfortunately, I get a hang soon as the OS begins to load.
Did a quick search online, found reference to a Panasonic driver for USB devices, but that all seemed to go a different direction than I wanted,…
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thank You in advance for your input! :=]
-=LRO=-

By: Odyssey

Odyssey — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:11:41 +0000

Also - although I could update the MB, I have a hugely expensive Parhelia AGP quad video card that I really don’t want to have to replace (or the 4gb matched DDR memory), so the asus 8v is the board that supports the highest spec while still using AGP.

By: Odyssey

Odyssey — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:01:10 +0000

Paul, I’ve managed to get it sorted by editing the boot.ini file so it searches on boot for the scsi drive, system now dual boots quite happily.
Thanks for your thoughts.

Alastair

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:29:33 +0000

Alastair,

In most cases older boards that require the use of SATA drivers to boot off a SATA drive are able to see SATA drives as secondary drives within Windows. Unfortunately you would still need to load the Windows setup with additional drivers by using the “F6” option when starting the install.

One option (depending on your time vs. budget) to avoid having to reconfigure the triple monitor system would be to consider buying a new motherboard combo as all current boards support booting from a SATA hard drive by default.

As long as your triple monitor color calibration settings are completely handled by the software I do not foresee a problem swapping the base hardware. Otherwise you will probably need to reinstall the OS onto the new SATA drive. (Unless there is a way to load the SATA drivers after the fact, but in all honesty it has been years since I have had to work with boards like that. Maybe another site online might have info on that.) Good luck!

By: Odyssey

Odyssey — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:39:00 +0000

Hi - I have a similar problem, but with a slight difference. I run XP pro SP2 and the OS and all apps are on my IDE C drive (all user files are on a separate IDE drive). The C drive is starting to get a little ‘flakey’ so I got a new SATA drive to copy the OS and apps to (Norton Ghost) as I have a very complex triple monitor, colour calibrated system which would take forever to reinstall fresh on the SATA disk. Ideally I would like to be able to dual boot the two, but although windows on the ide drive can see the SATA drive and quite happily reads and writes. I’ve tried various settings in the BIOS (ASus A8V deluxe) but it will not see the sata disc, I’ve tried booting without the IDE drives connected, but it can’t see an OS (or the drive) The copy OS is bootable. Any suggestions?

TIA Alastair

By: John

John — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:20:21 +0000

Do you know this is the best detailed reading i have came across on this subject top marks a great help to me and i am sure many other readers
The above obeds comment suckes just cause he hasn’t a floppy drive get a life buy one as i did only cost me £6 on ebay…

By: william merriman

william merriman — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:52:08 +0000

I work in tech support at a call center and you would not believe how many people still have to do this…I thought the article was pretty useful.

Thanks

By: af

af — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:16:49 +0000

thanks for sharing, I tried different ways to install xp sp3, tweaked the bios ended up with the same problem “no hard drive detected” until I used your method, Floppy drive which I had to plugged to the mobo. Now I just have to find the mobo chipset drivers for xp. thanks again…

By: John

John — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:44:10 +0000

Pay the last comment no mind Paul. I have this exact problem and this is the most well writen explanation I have found.
Thank you very much.

By: :)

:) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:52:03 +0000

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