[Ham-Computers] RE: XP with SATA Harddrive

[Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)]

Good question...I think it depends on exactly what the Dell re-installation CD is.  Some OEM's customize the original WinXP CD to include their own stuff.  If this is the case, it might not work with the nLite utility.  Try it...you've got nothing to lose (but time).

73,

  - Aaron, NN6O



-----Original Message-----
From: ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Hill
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 9:03 AM
To: Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or experimenting
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] RE: XP with SATA Harddrive

I have a question about slip streaming.  I've heard that the actual 
Microsoft XP install CD is needed, and a Dell XP Pro Reinstallation 
CD won't do the job.  Am I correct? If so, will nLite fix this problem?

Jim



At 02:12 PM 1/3/2008, you wrote:
>Happy New Year, Robert (et al),
>
>You didn't run into any issues as you used the <F6> method to 
>install Windows.  Basically, when you press <F6> when first booting 
>from the installation CD, it will (eventually) open an additional 
>panel asking for the appropriate driver.  Had you not pressed <F6>, 
>then you would have ended up at a screen informing you that no hard 
>drives were detected.
>
>The only exception to this is if the SATA controller was set to 
>"legacy" mode (aka "native" mode disabled).  When configured this 
>way, the SATA controller *acts* like a basic IDE controller - 
>Windows will install the generic IDE controller driver during it's 
>initial installation (or a WHQL driver, if supplied with Windows), 
>and it's up to the user to install the appropriate chipset specific 
>driver once Windows' installation is completed.
>
>*** HOWEVER ***
>If Windows is installed with the controller in "Legacy" mode, it's a 
>royal PITA to later convert it to "Native" SATA mode due to a 
>difference in the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL).  "Native" SATA 
>controllers are treated like SCSI controllers and the Windows 
>architecture handles SCSI controllers differently than IDE 
>controllers (in fact, SCSI is truly "native" in the NT architecture 
>and IDE controllers are "add-ons").
>
>In short, choose a mode you want to run in prior to installing 
>Windows - it comes down to convenience ("legacy" SATA) vs 
>performance ("native" SATA).
>
>
>73,
>
>   - Aaron, NN6O
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:54 PM
>Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] RE: XP with SATA Harddrive
>
>I'm a little puzzled by all of this.  We're still running W2K here 
>but will eventually have to switch to XP I suppose.  I assume that 
>if XP lacks support for SATA, so does W2K.  But I had to replace 
>(actually, I didn't have to but didn't discover why the board had 
>started randomly rebooting until after the fact) the system board in 
>our main machine a few months ago.  And ended up with an Intel board 
>with six SATA connectors and on-board RAID capability.  So I 
>replaced all the drives as well.
>
>I don't recall having any problems in bringing the new system up, 
>with two RAID and two non-RAID drives.  The drives were configured 
>in BIOS Setup and then the driver loaded by pressing F6 when I got 
>to the SCSI driver prompt during OS installation.  Is this (nLite, 
>etc.) all necessary because the machine is a Compaq?
>
>Robert Downs - Houston
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