x64 and SATA

Does anyone have any idea when a version of Windows XP x64 will be released
that has SATA compatibility? I don't have any IDE drives, so this is a major
inconvienance for me.

Charlie
Mon Jun 06 17:16:30 CDT 2005

It's perfectly compatible right now. You just need drivers from your OEM.
That's not particularly remarkable, you need them for 32-bit XP right now for
many controllers. It's not hard to obtain the drivers, and while I agree it's
an annoyance to use F6 when you first install, that's the only time you need
to worry about it. Once it's installed, you're good.

--
Charlie.

i1zuhg3n1u5 wrote:
> Does anyone have any idea when a version of Windows XP x64 will be
> released that has SATA compatibility? I don't have any IDE drives, so
> this is a major inconvienance for me.

Lynn
Mon Jun 06 17:19:31 CDT 2005

> Does anyone have any idea when a version of Windows XP x64 will be released
> that has SATA compatibility? I don't have any IDE drives, so this is a major
> inconvienance for me.

It is compatible right now, you just need to hit F6 when loading Win XP 64
and load the 64 bit SATA drivers for your motherboard. Most of the 64 bit
motherboards do have Win64 SATA drivers for them already.

Lynn

David
Mon Jun 06 17:23:23 CDT 2005

"i1zuhg3n1u5" <i1zuhg3n1u5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in:

> Does anyone have any idea when a version of Windows XP x64 will be
> released that has SATA compatibility? I don't have any IDE drives, so
> this is a major inconvienance for me.

Never I think. I believe you're seeing the one and only X64 release, next
will be Longhorn.

You're best bet might be to slipstream your SATA drivers into the X64 CD.

Just in case you need it, here's one how to:

http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/READING/addraid.htm

Google will find many more, my apologies if you already knew how to do this.

--
David R. Norton MVP
<d_r_norton@yahoo.com>

Sam
Mon Jun 06 17:57:05 CDT 2005

Its already there, no need for extra driver unless your using raid.
Just make sure computer bios sees the sata drive before you install.
"i1zuhg3n1u5" <i1zuhg3n1u5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AEF9539C-76DC-448D-A730-02A960D2FC37@microsoft.com...
> Does anyone have any idea when a version of Windows XP x64 will be
> released
> that has SATA compatibility? I don't have any IDE drives, so this is a
> major
> inconvienance for me.

Rick
Mon Jun 06 18:25:03 CDT 2005

Probably when Hell freezes over. Of course, it might happen just before
Hell freezes over!


i1zuhg3n1u5 wrote:
> Does anyone have any idea when a version of Windows XP x64 will be released
> that has SATA compatibility? I don't have any IDE drives, so this is a major
> inconvienance for me.

Mark
Mon Jun 06 18:46:03 CDT 2005

Charlie Russel - MVP got up from the bar and shouted: :
> It's perfectly compatible right now. You just need drivers from your OEM.
> That's not particularly remarkable, you need them for 32-bit XP right now for
> many controllers. It's not hard to obtain the drivers, and while I agree it's
> an annoyance to use F6 when you first install, that's the only time you need
> to worry about it. Once it's installed, you're good.
>

Assuming you have a 15 year old 1.44Mb floppy disk fitted, otherwise
your pretty much screwed when it comes to installing SATA drivers for XP64.

A very embarrassing undersight IMHO by Microsoft. You would think in
this day and age, setup could load drivers of a USB drive, but then it
XP X64 is running a hacked NT3.51 setup from 15 years ago...

Kevin
Mon Jun 06 20:07:56 CDT 2005

Using F6 works just fine with my USB Floppy Disk Drive. I have a Dell 8400
Desktop (EM64T) with A06 BIOS running Windows XP X64 Edition.

"Mark Gillespie" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:ewIR2HvaFHA.4040@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Charlie Russel - MVP got up from the bar and shouted: :
>> It's perfectly compatible right now. You just need drivers from your OEM.
>> That's not particularly remarkable, you need them for 32-bit XP right now
>> for many controllers. It's not hard to obtain the drivers, and while I
>> agree it's an annoyance to use F6 when you first install, that's the only
>> time you need to worry about it. Once it's installed, you're good.
>>
>
> Assuming you have a 15 year old 1.44Mb floppy disk fitted, otherwise your
> pretty much screwed when it comes to installing SATA drivers for XP64.
>
> A very embarrassing undersight IMHO by Microsoft. You would think in this
> day and age, setup could load drivers of a USB drive, but then it XP X64
> is running a hacked NT3.51 setup from 15 years ago...

John
Mon Jun 06 20:59:33 CDT 2005

Totally depends on your chipset. NForce4 doesn't need them. As far as I
remember Nforce3 and Via do.


"Sam" <skissel@insightbb.com> wrote in message
news:ui5GRsuaFHA.1152@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Its already there, no need for extra driver unless your using raid.
> Just make sure computer bios sees the sata drive before you install.
> "i1zuhg3n1u5" <i1zuhg3n1u5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AEF9539C-76DC-448D-A730-02A960D2FC37@microsoft.com...
>> Does anyone have any idea when a version of Windows XP x64 will be
>> released
>> that has SATA compatibility? I don't have any IDE drives, so this is a
>> major
>> inconvienance for me.
>
>

Charlie
Tue Jun 07 00:40:24 CDT 2005

Not reliably, Kevin. Depends entirely on your BIOS. Some support it early
enough, some don't.

--
Charlie.

Kevin Panzke wrote:
> Using F6 works just fine with my USB Floppy Disk Drive. I have a
> Dell 8400 Desktop (EM64T) with A06 BIOS running Windows XP X64
> Edition.
> "Mark Gillespie" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ewIR2HvaFHA.4040@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> Charlie Russel - MVP got up from the bar and shouted: :
>>> It's perfectly compatible right now. You just need drivers from
>>> your OEM. That's not particularly remarkable, you need them for
>>> 32-bit XP right now for many controllers. It's not hard to obtain
>>> the drivers, and while I agree it's an annoyance to use F6 when you
>>> first install, that's the only time you need to worry about it.
>>> Once it's installed, you're good.
>>
>> Assuming you have a 15 year old 1.44Mb floppy disk fitted, otherwise
>> your pretty much screwed when it comes to installing SATA drivers
>> for XP64. A very embarrassing undersight IMHO by Microsoft. You would
>> think
>> in this day and age, setup could load drivers of a USB drive, but
>> then it XP X64 is running a hacked NT3.51 setup from 15 years ago...

Charlie
Tue Jun 07 00:39:41 CDT 2005

Yup, we'd all like to see an alternative. Actually, there is one -- creating
a slipstream installation. But that's non-trivial and probably more work than
the $10-15 that a new floppy drive goes for. Yes, it's a pain. I haven't
bought a floppy drive with any of the last 3 or 4 computers I bought. But
broke down and bought one just to get around this (and similar problems on my
32-bit server, I might add, since it's running RAID.)

--
Charlie.

Mark Gillespie wrote:
> Charlie Russel - MVP got up from the bar and shouted: :
>> It's perfectly compatible right now. You just need drivers from your
>> OEM. That's not particularly remarkable, you need them for 32-bit XP
>> right now for many controllers. It's not hard to obtain the drivers,
>> and while I agree it's an annoyance to use F6 when you first
>> install, that's the only time you need to worry about it. Once it's
>> installed, you're good.
>
> Assuming you have a 15 year old 1.44Mb floppy disk fitted, otherwise
> your pretty much screwed when it comes to installing SATA drivers for
> XP64.
> A very embarrassing undersight IMHO by Microsoft. You would think in
> this day and age, setup could load drivers of a USB drive, but then it
> XP X64 is running a hacked NT3.51 setup from 15 years ago...

Mark
Tue Jun 07 01:40:07 CDT 2005

Kevin Panzke got up from the bar and shouted: :
> Using F6 works just fine with my USB Floppy Disk Drive. I have a Dell 8400
> Desktop (EM64T) with A06 BIOS running Windows XP X64 Edition.
>
> "Mark Gillespie" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ewIR2HvaFHA.4040@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>
>>Charlie Russel - MVP got up from the bar and shouted: :
>>
>>>It's perfectly compatible right now. You just need drivers from your OEM.
>>>That's not particularly remarkable, you need them for 32-bit XP right now
>>>for many controllers. It's not hard to obtain the drivers, and while I
>>>agree it's an annoyance to use F6 when you first install, that's the only
>>>time you need to worry about it. Once it's installed, you're good.
>>>
>>
>>Assuming you have a 15 year old 1.44Mb floppy disk fitted, otherwise your
>>pretty much screwed when it comes to installing SATA drivers for XP64.
>>
>>A very embarrassing undersight IMHO by Microsoft. You would think in this
>>day and age, setup could load drivers of a USB drive, but then it XP X64
>>is running a hacked NT3.51 setup from 15 years ago...
>
>
>

I was really referring to USB drive, as in pen drive, rather than USB
Floppy, but even USB floppy is hit and miss...

Jud
Tue Jun 07 02:51:06 CDT 2005

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:39:41 -0700, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
<charlie@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote:

>Yup, we'd all like to see an alternative.

What's the problem of installing them on the Windows installation CD
in the first place? Most new computers don't come with floppy-drives
anymore.

jud'

Rick
Tue Jun 07 06:42:08 CDT 2005

If you mean a USB floppy drive, you can load the drivers on many
computer with a USB floppy. You have to enable "legacy support" in your
BIOS for the USB floppy to be seen by the installation program.


Mark Gillespie wrote:
> Charlie Russel - MVP got up from the bar and shouted: :
>
>> It's perfectly compatible right now. You just need drivers from your
>> OEM. That's not particularly remarkable, you need them for 32-bit XP
>> right now for many controllers. It's not hard to obtain the drivers,
>> and while I agree it's an annoyance to use F6 when you first install,
>> that's the only time you need to worry about it. Once it's installed,
>> you're good.
>>
>
> Assuming you have a 15 year old 1.44Mb floppy disk fitted, otherwise
> your pretty much screwed when it comes to installing SATA drivers for XP64.
>
> A very embarrassing undersight IMHO by Microsoft. You would think in
> this day and age, setup could load drivers of a USB drive, but then it
> XP X64 is running a hacked NT3.51 setup from 15 years ago...

R
Tue Jun 07 08:34:59 CDT 2005

Hi, John - and Sam.

My year-old EPoX 8KDA3+ mobo has the nForce3 250GB chipset, which controls 2
onboard SATA connectors. I downloaded the final x64 from MSDN last month
and burned the ISO to a CD-ROM. When I booted from that CD, it installed
x64 to my new SATA HD without my having to use the F6 key! The 06/05 DVD
from MSDN includes the RTM version of x64, so I burned a new CD from that
ISO and installed x64 from scratch again. Again, the F6 key was not
required.

I'm NOT using RAID of any kind; my SATA HD is "just another IDE drive" in my
system. If I were using RAID, I might need to use F6, but I don't know.
Also, my mobo has 4 more SATA/RAID connectors supported by an onboard
SiI3114 controller; I might need F6 if I wanted to boot from a SATA drive on
one of those connectors, but I don't know that, either.

When I got Win2K in 2000, I had to use F6 each time I installed - or
re-installed - Win2K. WinXP (32) had my AHA-2930U2 drivers built-in, so I
didn't have to use F6 anymore. And I'm VERY happy that I don't have to use
F6 now to install either the 32-bit or 64-bit version of WinXP with my SATA
drive as the boot device.

This seems to confirm: It depends on your chipset.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP

"John Barnes" <jbfoofy@email.net> wrote in message
news:eeEgPSwaFHA.3144@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Totally depends on your chipset. NForce4 doesn't need them. As far as I
> remember Nforce3 and Via do.
>
> "Sam" <skissel@insightbb.com> wrote in message
> news:ui5GRsuaFHA.1152@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Its already there, no need for extra driver unless your using raid.
>> Just make sure computer bios sees the sata drive before you install.
>> "i1zuhg3n1u5" <i1zuhg3n1u5@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:AEF9539C-76DC-448D-A730-02A960D2FC37@microsoft.com...
>>> Does anyone have any idea when a version of Windows XP x64 will be
>>> released
>>> that has SATA compatibility? I don't have any IDE drives, so this is a
>>> major
>>> inconvienance for me.

Christian
Tue Jun 07 10:07:11 CDT 2005

Jud Hendrix <askme@here.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:39:41 -0700, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
> <charlie@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote:
>
>> Yup, we'd all like to see an alternative.
>
> What's the problem of installing them on the Windows installation CD
> in the first place? Most new computers don't come with floppy-drives
> anymore.
>
> jud'

Hi Jud,

As far as I understand, it will be done with Longhorn....
Not a bad news :)


--
Christian Hougardy (MS XP MVP)
Johannesburg - South Africa
http://msmvps.com/xpditif

Christian
Tue Jun 07 10:08:12 CDT 2005

R. C. White <rc@corridor.net> wrote:
> Hi, John - and Sam.
>
> My year-old EPoX 8KDA3+ mobo has the nForce3 250GB chipset, which
> controls 2 onboard SATA connectors. I downloaded the final x64 from
> MSDN last month and burned the ISO to a CD-ROM. When I booted from
> that CD, it installed x64 to my new SATA HD without my having to use
> the F6 key! The 06/05 DVD from MSDN includes the RTM version of x64,
> so I burned a new CD from that ISO and installed x64 from scratch
> again. Again, the F6 key was not required.
>
> I'm NOT using RAID of any kind; my SATA HD is "just another IDE
> drive" in my system. If I were using RAID, I might need to use F6,
> but I don't know. Also, my mobo has 4 more SATA/RAID connectors
> supported by an onboard SiI3114 controller; I might need F6 if I
> wanted to boot from a SATA drive on one of those connectors, but I
> don't know that, either.
> When I got Win2K in 2000, I had to use F6 each time I installed - or
> re-installed - Win2K. WinXP (32) had my AHA-2930U2 drivers built-in,
> so I didn't have to use F6 anymore. And I'm VERY happy that I don't
> have to use F6 now to install either the 32-bit or 64-bit version of
> WinXP with my SATA drive as the boot device.
>
> This seems to confirm: It depends on your chipset.
>
> RC
>
Hi RC,

nothing else to say, I agree with you

--
Christian Hougardy (MS XP MVP)
Johannesburg - South Africa
http://msmvps.com/xpditif

Charlie
Tue Jun 07 10:31:49 CDT 2005

creating a slipstream installation for every possible beta I might be on is
really not worth the amount of work it would take, as compared to buying a
$15 floppy drive. If I spend more than 5 minutes, once, doing it, the drive
is paid for. And given the number of times I have to do this during even one
beta...

As to why MS couldn't put them on the CD? They aren't yet certified drivers,
and the HW mfg's never have the drivers ready in time for inclusion in the
base OS.

But what we _do_ need is the ability to choose an alternate source for the F6
drivers -- CD, DVD, USB key drive, floppy, whatever. That's something I
suspect we'll get in Longhorn, but right now isn't there and is a PITA.


--
Charlie.

Jud Hendrix wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:39:41 -0700, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
> <charlie@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote:
>
>> Yup, we'd all like to see an alternative.
>
> What's the problem of installing them on the Windows installation CD
> in the first place? Most new computers don't come with floppy-drives
> anymore.
>
> jud'

Jud
Tue Jun 07 10:18:03 CDT 2005

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 17:07:11 +0200, "Christian Hougardy"
<christian.hougardy@gmail.com> wrote:

>As far as I understand, it will be done with Longhorn....
>Not a bad news :)

That'll be next year then, for normal people :)

But what I thought, MS is now doing this downloading thing of x64, so
it would be quite easy to update the ISO with patches which do include
installation of drivers off disk, and also easy to update them. And
for those buying in the shop, well, they have to suffer ;-)
If the idea takes off, I get a dollar for every disk downloaded for
the idea :)

jud

Charlie
Tue Jun 07 10:33:02 CDT 2005

works on some mobos, not on others. And varies by USB floppy drive, actually,
as well. So not reliable. Useful when it does, however.

--
Charlie.

Rick wrote:
> If you mean a USB floppy drive, you can load the drivers on many
> computer with a USB floppy. You have to enable "legacy support" in
> your BIOS for the USB floppy to be seen by the installation program.
>
>
> Mark Gillespie wrote:
>> Charlie Russel - MVP got up from the bar and shouted: :
>>
>>> It's perfectly compatible right now. You just need drivers from your
>>> OEM. That's not particularly remarkable, you need them for 32-bit XP
>>> right now for many controllers. It's not hard to obtain the drivers,
>>> and while I agree it's an annoyance to use F6 when you first
>>> install, that's the only time you need to worry about it. Once it's
>>> installed, you're good.
>>>
>>
>> Assuming you have a 15 year old 1.44Mb floppy disk fitted, otherwise
>> your pretty much screwed when it comes to installing SATA drivers
>> for XP64. A very embarrassing undersight IMHO by Microsoft. You would
>> think in
>> this day and age, setup could load drivers of a USB drive, but then
>> it XP X64 is running a hacked NT3.51 setup from 15 years ago...

Rick
Tue Jun 07 11:12:17 CDT 2005

I fully agree that a USB floppy will not work on all systems, but from
my personal experience with lot of boards, (I have been building and
repairing PCs for almost 20 years) I have discovered that "USB Device
Legacy Support" (or similar wording) in the system BIOS is necessary
since at the point the floppy is needed during the Windows XP and x64,
and others, installation, the environment apparently does not have a USB
driver installed and will not recognize the USB floppy as being present.

I have also ran across problems with some of the Linux distributions if
the 'legacy support' is enabled. So it's a mixed bag!


Charlie Russel - MVP wrote:
> works on some mobos, not on others. And varies by USB floppy drive, actually,
> as well. So not reliable. Useful when it does, however.
>

Mark
Tue Jun 07 12:29:14 CDT 2005

Charlie Russel - MVP got up from the bar and shouted: :
> Yup, we'd all like to see an alternative. Actually, there is one -- creating
> a slipstream installation. But that's non-trivial and probably more work than
> the $10-15 that a new floppy drive goes for. Yes, it's a pain. I haven't
> bought a floppy drive with any of the last 3 or 4 computers I bought. But
> broke down and bought one just to get around this (and similar problems on my
> 32-bit server, I might add, since it's running RAID.)
>

You also have to remember that some PC motherboards don't come with
Floppy disk controllers any more... (although I think all the X64
boards do, at present).

I certainly have 2 PC motherboards with no FDD controller, so if I
wanted to install a version of Windows, where my boot device needed a
driver, I would be forking out for a USB floppy, and hoping that my BIOS
supported it correctly..

Charlie
Wed Jun 08 01:16:04 CDT 2005

Now THAT I haven't seen. But then, I'm not buying inexpensive or super small
motherboards, opting for full feature more than size. Most of my mobos are
ASUS, lately. I've been happy, even though they're not on the bleeding edge
with AMD, certainly. They're been solid, dependable, and well executed
boards, with all the features I want and need.

--
Charlie.

Mark Gillespie wrote:
> Charlie Russel - MVP got up from the bar and shouted: :
>> Yup, we'd all like to see an alternative. Actually, there is one --
>> creating a slipstream installation. But that's non-trivial and
>> probably more work than the $10-15 that a new floppy drive goes for.
>> Yes, it's a pain. I haven't bought a floppy drive with any of the
>> last 3 or 4 computers I bought. But broke down and bought one just
>> to get around this (and similar problems on my 32-bit server, I
>> might add, since it's running RAID.)
>
> You also have to remember that some PC motherboards don't come with
> Floppy disk controllers any more... (although I think all the X64
> boards do, at present).
>
> I certainly have 2 PC motherboards with no FDD controller, so if I
> wanted to install a version of Windows, where my boot device needed a
> driver, I would be forking out for a USB floppy, and hoping that my
> BIOS supported it correctly..

Charlie
Wed Jun 08 01:16:56 CDT 2005

Yes, I'd agree as well -- IF it's going to work for Windows installation,
legacy support will need to be enabled.

--
Charlie.

Rick wrote:
> I fully agree that a USB floppy will not work on all systems, but from
> my personal experience with lot of boards, (I have been building and
> repairing PCs for almost 20 years) I have discovered that "USB Device
> Legacy Support" (or similar wording) in the system BIOS is necessary
> since at the point the floppy is needed during the Windows XP and x64,
> and others, installation, the environment apparently does not have a
> USB driver installed and will not recognize the USB floppy as being
> present.
> I have also ran across problems with some of the Linux distributions
> if the 'legacy support' is enabled. So it's a mixed bag!
>
>
> Charlie Russel - MVP wrote:
>> works on some mobos, not on others. And varies by USB floppy drive,
>> actually, as well. So not reliable. Useful when it does, however.

Mark
Wed Jun 08 12:34:42 CDT 2005

Charlie Russel - MVP got up from the bar and shouted: :
> Now THAT I haven't seen. But then, I'm not buying inexpensive or super small
> motherboards, opting for full feature more than size. Most of my mobos are
> ASUS, lately. I've been happy, even though they're not on the bleeding edge
> with AMD, certainly. They're been solid, dependable, and well executed
> boards, with all the features I want and need.
>

Basically, Microsoft by not updating their installer, are forcing the
industry down another 5 years of supporting long dead legacy hardware...
Not good...

SjoerdTegelaar
Mon Jun 13 14:42:02 CDT 2005

Can some one please explane me how to install win x64 on an SATA drive when I
have a floppy drive with my HDD Driver on it (step by step please, kind of a
noob :S)

I boot from the win x64 cd, get the blue screen and then.....

Charlie
Mon Jun 13 15:09:01 CDT 2005

http://msmvps.com/xperts64/archive/2005/06/11/52162.aspx

Including links to MS KB articles on it as well.


--
Charlie.

Sjoerd Tegelaar wrote:
> Can some one please explane me how to install win x64 on an SATA
> drive when I have a floppy drive with my HDD Driver on it (step by
> step please, kind of a noob :S)
>
> I boot from the win x64 cd, get the blue screen and then.....

John
Mon Jun 13 15:19:46 CDT 2005

Press F6 as soon as it appears at the bottom of the screen
Insert the floppy with the drivers
When you come to the screen asking for drivers select the option to load
drivers - think is it S
Press enter
View drivers selected by Windows. Select any driver designated as required
or the top one.
Press enter.
Repeat if more than one driver marked as required.
When the final driver has been loaded press enter to resume the loading of
the Text portion of Windows loading.
Let the system reboot to the GUI phase of the install
If it doesn't properly boot to the GUI you have done something wrong and you
need to review what you have done and
either retry or ask another question here with any error messages you
receive.

Been a while and the steps are correct, but you should read the screens that
it stops on and you should be able to pick the correct options.

Good Luck

"Sjoerd Tegelaar" <SjoerdTegelaar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:72A16217-2052-44C3-8FEE-B0D703AC120B@microsoft.com...
> Can some one please explane me how to install win x64 on an SATA drive
> when I
> have a floppy drive with my HDD Driver on it (step by step please, kind of
> a
> noob :S)
>
> I boot from the win x64 cd, get the blue screen and then.....

John
Mon Jun 13 15:27:31 CDT 2005

Use Charlies, I'm sure it is more detailed and accurate.


"Sjoerd Tegelaar" <SjoerdTegelaar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:72A16217-2052-44C3-8FEE-B0D703AC120B@microsoft.com...
> Can some one please explane me how to install win x64 on an SATA drive
> when I
> have a floppy drive with my HDD Driver on it (step by step please, kind of
> a
> noob :S)
>
> I boot from the win x64 cd, get the blue screen and then.....

Phil
Thu Jun 16 00:01:05 CDT 2005

i got a sysytem i an building, i am using raid, both drives are of the same
type and size, these are both set up on separate channels, when i do the f-6
and point to the flopy, i pick my drivers, then hit enter, then xp pro loads
it's drivers, it's when it done loading the drivers xp wants me to hit enter
to continue loading windows it comes back telling me the it does not
recognize my hard drives, i've done this over and over, even tried a few
tricks that i thought might work, i still get to the same point where it says
it doesn't see my drives.this is trying to install 32 bit version of xp pro

"John Barnes" wrote:

> Press F6 as soon as it appears at the bottom of the screen
> Insert the floppy with the drivers
> When you come to the screen asking for drivers select the option to load
> drivers - think is it S
> Press enter
> View drivers selected by Windows. Select any driver designated as required
> or the top one.
> Press enter.
> Repeat if more than one driver marked as required.
> When the final driver has been loaded press enter to resume the loading of
> the Text portion of Windows loading.
> Let the system reboot to the GUI phase of the install
> If it doesn't properly boot to the GUI you have done something wrong and you
> need to review what you have done and
> either retry or ask another question here with any error messages you
> receive.
>
> Been a while and the steps are correct, but you should read the screens that
> it stops on and you should be able to pick the correct options.
>
> Good Luck
>
> "Sjoerd Tegelaar" <SjoerdTegelaar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:72A16217-2052-44C3-8FEE-B0D703AC120B@microsoft.com...
> > Can some one please explane me how to install win x64 on an SATA drive
> > when I
> > have a floppy drive with my HDD Driver on it (step by step please, kind of
> > a
> > noob :S)
> >
> > I boot from the win x64 cd, get the blue screen and then.....
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>

itinathens
Mon Jun 20 13:18:02 CDT 2005

does anyone know if a usb zipdrive will work? i am sure as fuck not going to
waste my money (even $20) on a bloody floppy drive. i swore off of them many
years ago. all my hd's are sata and none of them are using raid. does this
mean i am screwed as to installing x64?

"Rick" wrote:

> If you mean a USB floppy drive, you can load the drivers on many
> computer with a USB floppy. You have to enable "legacy support" in your
> BIOS for the USB floppy to be seen by the installation program.
>
>
> Mark Gillespie wrote:
> > Charlie Russel - MVP got up from the bar and shouted: :
> >
> >> It's perfectly compatible right now. You just need drivers from your
> >> OEM. That's not particularly remarkable, you need them for 32-bit XP
> >> right now for many controllers. It's not hard to obtain the drivers,
> >> and while I agree it's an annoyance to use F6 when you first install,
> >> that's the only time you need to worry about it. Once it's installed,
> >> you're good.
> >>
> >
> > Assuming you have a 15 year old 1.44Mb floppy disk fitted, otherwise
> > your pretty much screwed when it comes to installing SATA drivers for XP64.
> >
> > A very embarrassing undersight IMHO by Microsoft. You would think in
> > this day and age, setup could load drivers of a USB drive, but then it
> > XP X64 is running a hacked NT3.51 setup from 15 years ago...
>