I brought a second hand dell dimension C521 and do not have a recovery disk. I've attempted to install a generic copy of windows XP pro on to the computer. After the initial install phase of windows the computer reboots and doesn't seem to find the hard drive as it goes back and does the initial install phase again!
I believe that the dell requires a SATA driver to be installed at the initial install phase by pressing F6. The closest floppy SATA driver I can find is at:
http://support.euro.dell.c
but when i hit F6 on installation it says it 'Cannot find setuptxt.oem'.
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I don't think the motherboard is intel, please see here for the spec:
http://reviews.cnet.com/de
It's an AMD athlon. Would you be able to give me a link to the mostly likely drivers I would need to get?
I would get them direct from AMD if that's the case.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/P
Correct answer goes to MiniDevo. As all the SATA drivers needed were on DELL recovery disks which I don't have. So I used the instructions to create a windows XP disk with the correct drivers on it in the first place. The problem with DELL is none of the software on their site created a F6'able floppy disk so I couldn't do that. Many Thanks issue resolved.
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by: MiniDevoPosted on 2008-12-27 at 10:31:56ID: 23249061
You can actually alter the Windows XP CD to have the needed SATA drivers preloaded.
http://news.softpedia.com/