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How was XP Installed w/o SATA drivers on SATA disk?!

There have been so many growses in almost evry forum about peeps not being able to install XP on a SATA drive. So what we do is slipstreap the setup with the SATA drivers using nlite.

So far so good, what amazed me the other day was...
Windows XP SP2 w/o the slipstreamed SATA drivers installed flawlessly on the Dell Inspiron 1705. There was no setting in the BIOS for the SATA disk, so the feature being disabled is ruled out.

The XP cd is a student version which did not install on my comp with a SATA disk.

Experts here enlighten me please.

dhoffman_98

Depending on the system you are using, some of them are true SATA and some of them have a bridge that allows you to connect a SATA drive to the system, but appears to the OS as a PATA drive. In that case, the drivers were already there, and the OS doesn't realize that it's really SATA.

LeeTutor

You can also put the SATA drivers on a floppy disk and hit the F6 function key when it asks for you to install any special purpose drivers needed (I forget the exact wording) very early during setup...

patrvic

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dhoffman,

so are you saying it's not exactly a SATA disk?...hey u know what i saw the sata drivers installed in the device manager. From the point u put may be the guy installed the drivers after he installed windows...but it would still need a sata disk for the drivers to get installed...dont u think?

patrvic

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...or the OS to realize it as a SATA disk for the drivers to get installed...

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patrvic

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so the Sata drivers that were installed after installing the os, make the sata function active. is that wat ur saying?