"They choose to install Windows and applications on SATA drives because they provide more speed which determines the system to run smoother. Thus for those owning older mainboards with SATA support an extra step is required while attempting to install Windows XP. Windows XP does not provide drivers for all the SATA controllers therefore during the installation procedure the user must insert a floppy with the drivers that came in the package along with the motherboard
SATA hard drives have become more and more appreciated tending to substitute the IDE drives due to the increasing speed they offer. Motherboard manufacturers started to implement the new standard years ago when the technology was young and expensive. Now as the SATA HDD prices have lowered to a level where anybody can afford to choose a SATA enabled HDD instead of an IDE one a great migration has been observed among the common computer users.
Not a big deal not much effort but the funny thing is that a great number of people passed on their floppy drives. Under these circumstances no floppy means the impossibility to install Windows XP on SATA (on some mainboards). The result? The installation guide simply won't detect the SATA HDD.
People that were happy they got rid of the old removable drive have now motives to worry. Some may reconsider buying new floppy drives for their computers. Even if I wrote in a precedent article about the utility of the floppy drive I do not encourage spending your money buying back an obsolete piece of hardware. I will present you a method to avoid this inconvenient by doing a software trick.
So download the drivers and unzip them (in case they come archived) in a desired location. Then download and install the Nlite application. When you start the Nlite application you will be asked to provide the location for the Windows installation package. Insert the genuine Windows Installation CD into the CD drive and inside the application select the CD drive letter.
Let's take it slow. Where is the problem? We have a driver problem strictly because the SATA driver we need does not come embedded in the Windows XP installation package. What if we add the driver by ourselves before installing Windows?
What ingredients are involved in this operation? The original Windows XP Installation CD a freeware application named NLite and a blank CD. Moreover we need the drivers for the SATA controller provided by the manufacturer. In case you did not find any floppy inside the motherboard package or you cannot locate them on the mainboard
installation CD you can consult the manufacturer's website to download the latest versions. To do the trick I have been talking about it is assumed that you already have a Windows installed on an IDE drive. In case you don't pay a visit to a friend and ask him to let you use his computer. It won't take too much time I guarantee.
To insert the SATA drivers within the installation package you need to have it saved on the HDD. Hence when the warning window appears click OK and select the destination folder for the files to be saved. Make sure that the destination partition / HDD has enough space to store the contents of the installation CD.
I tested a Windows XP Home Edition and it seems that it required about 566 MB. Immediately after you have chosen the destination folder the application will start copying the Windows installation files. When finished it will display some version information regarding the newly copied Windows Installation Package.
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