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Windows XP installation fails due to Sata II
Created 3rd February 2011 @ 19:59
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So here is the story:
Today I got a new PC and because I’m poor and estonian I don’t got something fancy like Vista or 7. Just plain old XP SP3. Problem:
I can’t get XP installed because it fails to detect the HD.
HD is 1.0 TB Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 / SATA II
Any idea how to get an oldschool operating system to work with this?
Note: I don’t got any floppy disk drives.
Chris if you read this, please help me! <3
edit: it would work if i’d go to BIOS and tell them HD to act like IDE, but I don’t want it to act like this.
Last edited by ouch,
native IDE it may is.
but I heard from someone somewhere that using IDE instead of AHCI will slow down my HD therefore it may effect my gaming-/workingexperience. is that true?
or in other words, would it better for e.g games if the HD works on AHCI-Drivers? :)
edit: I could use a neat programm called nLite to create a bootable XP-CD including nvidiaForce RAID and AHCI drivers, but seeing that I got a ATI-card in that thing lefts me confused
basically I got three options:
1. native IDE
2 burning an XP-CD with AHCI and RAID stuff
3. buying vista (lol) or 7
Last edited by ouch,
Bassically, on newer motherboards, SATA ports can either be faked to make your OS think they are IDE ports, or they can be in AHCI mode (which requires newer drivers that older operating systems won’t have) which is slightly quicker.
In practice, it’s not going to make a lot of difference.
Last edited by Skyride,
i wouldnt worry too much about ahci if you have so shitty pc that u need to install xp
the difference is little to nothing plus xp doesnt require billion GB of shit loaded on every boot
my new rig isnt that shitty i guess. not that great either. but since i’m an respectable member of the human society I won’t steal any software created by the hard working guys over at microsoft.
anyway I may got a solution for this problem:
nLite + the right RAID/AHCI-drivers for my mainboard = win
this way I could claim I solved a problem the right way even I don’t know how.
thanks to the internet (including etf2l.org) in advance
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