On any of the six systems of my own, one that just uses SATA and the other five use SATA RAID, none of them are recognized from the XP installation CD unless I either press F6 and load the drivers off of floppy, or integrate the drivers with either nLite or DriverPacks. This is the case even on reinstallations even though the hard drives are already formatted.

S official-but-not-released Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. Pre-install drivers and. If you grabbed the latest beta of nLite, you'll see a Service Pack 3. How to install Windows XP with builtin F6 floppy drivers for AHCI/RAID disk using USB thumbdrive only. SATA controller can work in two modes: ATA-compatible mode (i.e. Look like ATA contoller to operating system), or AHCI mode (new mode which enables all. There's a special software for that purpose called nLite. Dec 10, 2010 - nLite requires this. Have your SATA drivers (see above) downloaded and extracted to a folder on your Desktop. Insert your Windows XP CD. For the nLite Windows XP CD with Sata drivers – follow the instructions in this article. Thanks, so I could I build an XP WIN integrated with SP3 packs. Will sata drivers be integrated in xpsp3? Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3). NLite can integrate your SATA drivers into your Windows 2000/XP/2003 CD.

I've reinstalled these systems many, many times and each time I need to load the driver. Not denying that it works the way it did for you, but I think that must be some kind of exception and not the rule.

Download Stronghold 3 Full Version Iso 9000. Skyfrog: Just to make things clear: What people are asking for is genereic support for the feature in SATA drives called AHCI (*). AHCI is implementet in more and more new motherboards and complete systems.

A lot of these pc's an laptops do not give the option to use 'normal mode' - the mode, you correctly state, does not care if it is an Parallel-ATA of Serial-ATA drive. AHCI support is NOT included in Windows XP. Windows reports 'no harddrives found' on AHCI machines, ( Normal (S)ATA is of course included in a generic driver, that works with all major chipsets.

) The reason why people are crying out for this beeing a part of SP3 is simple: When installing XP, controller drivers that are not included, must be inserted via the F6 prompt. This requires an actual floppy drive or BIOS ability to emulate a USB stick as floppy. The first is not present in most PC's - and definetly not in laptops - today. The latter requires quite some knowledge, and a BIOS willing to cooperate. The people who are most affected by this problem are ( since they can legally install an existing license on a new PC ): People who payed full price for a Retail Windows XP - and Business customers. MS has however stated that no new drivers will be included in SP3 - period.

But MS has been persuaded to include High Definition Audio support ( a separate update in SP2 ). I personally am very thankfull for that.

MS has still not replied on the question, wether it would be easy for them to rewrite the current Windows Vista driver. * AHCI is the official implementation of new features in SATA drives including support for native command queing (NCQ). NCQ allows the harddrive to rearrange read and write commands to reduce the amount of time and head movements needed to read the requested files. AHCI requires a separate driver, just like separate SATA chips, RAID controllers etc. Lars Kruse I'm not a complete idiot - several parts are missing. WHAT YOU AND I CAN DO IS NOT THE POINT!! I use nlite regularly.

But even some of my colleagues have no clue on how to use nlite. The average user - with only one downed PC - has no chance either. The knowlegable helper, who came to assist, must know about nlite and have an image prepared.

Przewodnik Po Rzymie Pdf Editor on this page. Not something you can expect to happen. The chance that he can get his hands on a SP3 CD is better. But MOST importantly - images created with Nlite are not supported by MS.

Thats why we want MS to include it. Best Regards Lars Kruse. So rude and hostile, you don't have to yell. You don't address DriverPacks that I mentioned.

If all one needs is updated drivers of one kind or another, I would certainly point someone to before nLite. NLite has so much more capability which is why I mentioned both. Secondly, the 'average user' has absolutely no idea how to install Windows, what's involved, what's going to happen because of it, what they need to do so or what preparations they should make before attempting it. I build, update and repair people's computers for a living, and no average user I've ever met has ever attempted to install Windows themselves; which makes sense since they are not a technie like me, but a user.