Windows XP and SATA Drives – nLite
If you’ve needed to install Windows XP on a newer computer with a Serial ATA drive (the new drive standard for hard drives) you may have run into an error where XP installation couldn’t find the drive.
Lame.
Normally, you would insert a floppy disc with the driver when prompted … but who has a floppy drive?
Enter nLite. nLite is a program that helps you install that driver right on the CD so it can find those hard drives. It will also let you do a bunch of other useful things like adding service packs and updates so you don’t have to install them later.
For an excellent tutorial on adding a SATA driver to your Windows installation via nLite, check out this How-To Geek article.
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I want to add ULI RAID & SATA controler drivers in the win xp sp2 setup. how can i do that. windows did not detact the SATA Comtroler during the installation, due to that i am not able to install windows in SATA HDD, i specially have to specify the location of the derivers which are in the floppy created by (ULi disk creating softwear), by pressing F6 key in the begning of the installation. how can i get rid out of this.
@VICKEY: If you follow the link above to the How-To Geek article listed at the end it will walk you through adding drivers for both the RAID and the SATA functions. The nLite site also has some tutorials.