windows xp install onto sata drive

the drifter

hey all im istalling xp onto an sata harddrive on a dell dimensions 9100. i get a blue screen of death during the install reboot and its telling me that it cannot see the drive. if i reboot and start the installation again it shows me that i have a windows os installed. i am usind sata drivers downloaded from the dell site

any ideas

roamer

Is your computer set to boot from the SATA port your drive with the installation is on?

If not, use the other port or enable boot from the SATA port you are using through BIOS.

BobTheBeat

Had the same issue myself when I installed XP on my new home built pc. What you need to do is install a SATA driver, to allow it to recognise the drive itself. You should have gotten this driver with your Mobo. Either that, or download the driver from the mobo manufacturers website.

Choose to boot from the xp install disk as normal at startup, and you will eventually see an option along the bottoom as the blue screen comes up at the start of the install. This option will say something like, "Press F6 now to install a third party RAID driver". This is what you are looking for!

XP doesnt support SATA out of the box, so this is what needs to be done in order to make it work

the drifter

so does this mean the drivers off the dell site is not what i need

BobTheBeat

The drivers off the dell site will do. I thought you had maybe built your own pc or something. Check the dell site for sata drivers for your pc.. these are the ones that will need to be saved onto a floppy and loaded at installation start up

Buzz_Irl

strange - i reformatted an 8400 and the raid (changed from 0 to 1) worked fine