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XP Installation - How to create SATA Driver Floppy Disk

I need to install XP onto a machine with a SATA drive. I am booting from the XP CD using an external USB DVD. I am not sure how to make the SATA floppy disk so I can install the driver during installation to recognize the SATA drive.

1) I went onto the Dell website to find the SATA driver. There are a few files to choose from and I am not sure which is correct. I have attached a screen capture. I think it is Matrix Storage Manager (OS preinstall only). Please advise if this is the correct driver.

2) I looked at the installation instructions provided, but it shows just how extract the files but not what to copy over to the floppy disk. Please advise what files need to be copied over to floppy.

Thanks for your help.

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Thanks. Do I boot the resource disk from a computer that is working to create the floppy? I put the Resource CD into the external USB drive on the computer that I am tring to install XP, but I got an error. F:\DOSMENU.BAT missing.

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Thanks for the input.

After hitting F6 and loading the driver, it tells me there is a driver already for this from the Windows CD. I went ahead and replaced it. However, I am still getting the same error whether I install the new driver or not. After it has install all the needed drivers and files off the Windows CD disk, it says 'Starting Windows", but then goes to a blue screen before it can even start the process loading Windows XP.

"A problem has been detected and windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to your computer. Check your hard drive for corruption then restart your computer. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption".

It never makes it to the point of being able to start installing Windows. I thought this is because it could not see the SATA drive, but it appears the drivers are loaded for it.

Thanks for any additional help.

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Why are you booting from an external drive?

You can change SATA controller settings in BIOS to disable RAID/AHCI which allows controller to emulate IDE. No SATA drivers are then required to install XP. You do need the F6 drivers to use AHCI mode -- enabling after XP install is possible but takes some work.

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r_may

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Willcomp- Thanks for the info. I did not realize that concerning the RAID.

I finally did have success with the Windows installation cd was able to recognize the SATA drive.

However, as Windows is starting the install just after formating the hard drive, it is giving several errors of not being able to copy files. Most I just hit retry and it worked. It is stuck on ipxrtmgr.dll. Can I skip this file?

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Yes, you can skip that file -- it's a Novell ipx driver.

r_may

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I am not sure why this was not more easily seen, but the problem was one of the memory sticks was bad. Someone had tried to re-install the OS previous to giving it to me, so I assume there were memory errors at that time. I was not getting any memory error messsages until I tried to force through the XP installation skipping many files. I removed the bad memory and things started working.
Thanks for your input.

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Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.