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How To Integrate Floppy SATA RAID Driver into Windows XP CD

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

Feb
8
2008

Previously I’ve explained how to solve “Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer” when installing Windows XP. You will need to download a floppy SATA RAID driver, extract it to floppy disk and then when installing XP, you need to press F6 to install the RAID driver. However, newer desktop computers and laptops doesn’t come with floppy drive. It’d be a waste to buy an external USB floppy drive just to use to install Windows XP.

In order not to use floppy drive, you can integrate the floppy SATA RAID driver into Windows XP CD. This way, you can install Windows XP on a SATA hard drive without using floppy. You’ll need to have XP CD or the source files (i386) on your computer, the floppy SATA RAID driver which can be downloaded from the motherboard manufacturer’s website and a CD/DVD writer. Most new computers already comes with a CD writer. Here are the steps.


1. Download and install nLite

2. Download SATA driver from manufacturer website and extract it to a new folder. My motherboard is MSI, so I downloaded the SATA driver from MSI.
Download SATA RAID drivers

3. Run nLite and select the language that you want to display in nLite

4. Specify the Windows XP installation files. If there is a i386 folder at the root of your drive, most probably that can be used. If not, enter your XP CD and browse your disc drive letter. Click Next once done.
Locate Windows Installation Files

5. Click Next again when you’re at Presets.

6. At Task Selection, click Drivers and Bootable ISO. Click Next.
Nlite Task Selection

7. Now click Insert button, select “Multiple driver folder“, choose the folder with extracted drivers and click OK. Select the shown drivers to integrate. Do not select 64 bit drivers on a 32 bit Windows XP. Click OK when done selecting the drivers. Click Next.
Select shown drivers to integrate

8. You’ll need to choose the exact type of hardware and OS if listed. A few textmode integration options will be listed. You can check the manufacturer’s website to know which chipset is being used. Select the drivers and click OK and then click Next.
Storage device textmode driver

9. Click Yes when asked “Do you want to start the process?” The driver integration wouldn’t take more than a minute. Click Next when done.
Nlite sata driver integration

10. At the next screen you can create a bootable ISO to burn to CD/DVD, or you can even burn to CD directly using “Direct Burn”.

Congratulations! You now have a new Windows XP CD/DVD that contains SATA RAID drivers. Boot your laptop or desktop with the new XP CD and install as normal.


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    • Andrei

      If this had come 2 years ago i would have been spared of a lot of trouble

    • Andrei

      so let’s hope this will help others

    • chris

      Thanks Raymond, very helpfull!

    • webcadre

      great tutorials ray!

      thanks a lot!

      your blog really helpfull!!!

      rock on dude!

    • sharath

      Perfect… Thanks a lot for your article

    • Dragan

      If somebody have done that,pls share link for download
      Thanks

    • shai

      Thanks !

    • dhika

      hey! my laptop is a HP compaq NC4400, and i got the windows recovery error, no hard disk is installed! and i dont know where to download the SATA RAID driver! can help? THANKS (:

    • Jayant

      Great work Raymond,
      ……Thanks……

      It\\\\\\\’s working…………

    • Jayant

      Great Work Raymond

      …………..Thanks………….

      It’s working……..

    • aslam vakkayil

      oh my god it worked…

      its not that tough to do.

      your tutorial rocks man… thanx alot

      god bless you

    • Kang S L

      i can’t still believe it!
      you are the genius!

      the best toturior in my life!

      thank you

    • Kang L

      raymond i need your help

      it was work

      i think i mess up from driver integration option part
      also i can not find my sata floppy driver. so i did same way as shown on pic

      Toshiba Satellite A200

      thank you

    • Siegfried

      I spent two days and 3 CD that ended beign a coaster.
      I found your guide and…
      Yeahhh it worked. Thanks men for your detailed info.

    • http://www.davidhurst.co.uk David Hurst

      Nice tutorial – works perfectly. Why couldn\’t Microsoft have just included these drivers on SP2 discs, or offered an ISO download with up-to-date drivers? Anyway, thanks – I still have some hair left thanks to this.

    • Matt

      hello, ok, How do I know where to find the SATA RAID driver, I dont know where or how to find these drivers needed for his, I need XP on a Gateway ML6228, thanks, please help

    • Davy

      Un grand merci ce tuto fonctionne a merveille et résout beaucoup de problèmes d\’installation.

    • Matt

      ok, I found the drivers for SATA and it work, XP is back and Vista is gone, Now I cant find the Drivers for sound and more, its a Gateway ML6228. help me.

    • Pier-Luc

      bon j\\\’ai fait tout ca j\\\’arive a instaler windows mais il s\\\’instale a moitier je m\\\’explique il me manque tout les composante j\\\’ai pas explorer mes programe sont vide la bares des tache est grise et la javout etre totalement perdu :S

    • radu

      Great job, work 100%
      thanks

    • Eric

      You are freaking awesome!!!! This worked perfectly!!! I can’t believe how easy this was. ThANK YOU!!!!

    • http://NLite Edson

      Que software show, excelente, fácil de usar e tem tudo, assim ficou baba instalar o Windows, principalmente para empresas…

      Parabéns pela dica….

      Até mais,

      Edson

    • Dharam

      Thanks Raymond, this is one of the best and rare tutorial I found.
      Dharam

    • Yechwando

      Simple, explicit, to the point and easy. Great work and thanks a lot.

    • Wasim

      Hello Guys, How come its working for everyone, I have also made the same type of CD and nothing works for me. can any one guide me..
      I don\’t use to press F6 with these CD\’s and even tried using F6 nothing works.

      Thanks.

    • Sam

      This article helped me tremendously. I had so much difficulties trying to install XP on a Sony Laptop that was purchased with Vista Home Edition and had a SATA hard drive.

      Once I integrated the necessary driver and created my own boot CD, everything was a breeze.

      Great job.

      Sam

    • Hugo

      Boas!
      Eu fiz exatamente o que era suposto fazer, mas continua a dar o mesmo erro:
      \\\”O programa de configuração não encontrou unidade de disco rigido instalada no computador\\\”
      Já fiz pela disquete mas tambem não deu e não sei o que fazer mais!!
      Alguem me pode ajudar?

    • claudio

      necesito eso del driver para mi notebook hp pavilion dv 2500 por favor si alguien sabe de donde lo puedo sakar necesito el windows XP
      y me sale ese error qe no me rekonoce los discos

      ayudaa por favor

      les dejo mi mail

      klaudio.andrex@gmail.com

      en msn o simplemente escribanme si desean por favor

      desde ya gracais

    • victor

      i reinstall windows a lot of items and never have to do the driver thing.

    • Patrick

      my Laptop is Compaq Presario V3500 Notebook PC and service is V3628TU
      is it FREE DOS
      I already done your instruction step by step but i can\’t slove my problem..
      So, please kindly help my problem
      Problem: the same with the others

    • http://FUNCIONO!!!!!!!!!!! Fernando Aspillaga

      Recorri todo internet y lo unico que funciono en mi HP 530 fue esto, ademas el soporte de HP NO tiene idea de como solucionar la instalacion con discos SATA
      Miles de gracias
      Fernando

    • ch1no

      raymond of all the tutorials ive found yours are the first one that really worked, thank you very much!

    • Static-X

      Люди а где можно скачать sata драйвера для ноутбука toshiba???

    • Danilo Rox

      Peguei um notebook Hp Pavilion dv2000
      Fiz uns seguintes processos
      Baixei o driver sata do site oficial da hp, fiz o diskete de boot , copie os arquivos do disket para uma pasta no windows, peguei o nLite fiz todos os processos de anexa o driver no cd do windows xp, mas n

    • http://HPPAVILLIONDV6899ep correia

      Boas, com o software “NLITE” consegui instalar Windows XP PRO, faltava controlador para SATA…- Intel(R) 82801HEM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH8M-E)

    • cstonn

      Grande tuto, foi o único que funcionou…..
      Obrigado.

    • Goverthana

      Thanks Dude! Your Tutorial helped me cross the bridge.

      As I like to add, if you guys want to burn the Integrated File immediately on Nlite! not a good idea, I tried and Burning proceeded but the program crashed at the end of burning, cause it contains lowest speed of 16x for burning CDs therefore make an ISO from Nlite then goto any other ISO burners to burn it, I used Nero and a speed of 8x, cause these datas are quite sensitive and very easily your Driver may bypass the Installation sometimes acquiring you errors after burn, therefore set to the lowest speed as possible to be in the safest side.

      If you happen to have Floppy Drive which is broken! firstly goto your BIOS settings at Startup and \”Disable\” it before Installing your XP operating sys, then it will tell A drive not detected and ask you to quit or continue, dont quit just continue, it will unpack the Integrated SATA RAID you have included into your CD.

      Then finally dont try to make a Virtual DIskette Boot Up Diskette to try to add the Driver there and Boot it up cause, almost all of the Virtual Drivers acquire you first format a Diskette in FLoppy Drive A and within that diskette you will create an image File .img as a virtual diskeette to boot up so, anyway you got to have a Physical Drive or else Asta La vista baby Oh asta la XP sorry!

      Thats alll hope this helps others.

    • MishimaSan

      Excellent blog m8 – I’ve just put it in my favourites.

    • pablo

      I need of drivers for disc sata please…..

      fujitsu MHY2120BH – (S1) SATA HDD.

      NECESITO LOS DRIVERS, ALGUN LINK DON PUEDA DESCARGARLOS PARA PODER INTEGRARLO CON EL N LITE A XP
      GRACIAS

      MANDEME EL LINK POR FAVOR justink2@hotmail.com

    • sergio

      hola gracias por el aporte en verdad estuve buscando en estos ultimos dos dias el tutorial es muy bueno saludos desde xalapa veracruz

    • Felipe

      Gracias Raymond por este aporte, muy bueno…Saludos de desde México.

    • aguila

      I had the same problem..I didn\’t know about this way to fix it….
      I used a program named (KIlldisk) this prog cleans de
      Hard drive completly (it takes about 8 Hours) in three
      steps, and after that ..I just put the windows disk in and
      I have no problem finding the hard disk

    • Александр

      Спасибо чувак. Респект. В рунете не нашёл, а у тебя запросто.

    • NJ

      I have a acer 9805 dual hard-drive, I can’t load the windows xp, then I get a message can’t find the hard-drive, I access the bios and know where on the bios screen I see where you can change the mode from AHCI to SATA. Please help

      nj

    • ed

      cara soh tenho uma coisa a te falar, obrigado obrigado obrigado ao quadrado ao cubo a quinta potencia vezes o infinito, valew msm

    • Rev

      Wow, perfect tutorial. Wasted hours to try with a floppy disk, driver would load with F6 in setup, but wouldnt after the XP setup started to copy the files to the hard drive. I integrated the SATA driver with help of your tutorial, voila, worked at the second try, the first try i forgot to REMOVE the floppy disk.

      Thanks for the help!

    • Carlos

      I just want to say thanks, your tutorial help me out with the hedech i had.
      It works fine

      Thanks for your support

    • Joe

      Hi.Everyone. Thanks a million. I am really happy. I dont know how to thank you. And by the way, good luck for you all. It really helps me much. Thank you again.

    • E.P.C.

      Hello Everyone specially the moderator & the one who gave advise, A million thanks to you… i can now sleep the whole night today because i already fix my acer laptop, im already planning to go to technician but it amazingly find your post…. thanks.

    • SONU KUMAR

      HI RAYMOND .I M NOT ABLE 2 INSTALL XP ON MY HARD DRIVE AFTER INSTALLING THE VISTA.CAN U HELP ME .PLZ E MAILME THE TRICK

    • Arjun

      hey….Sonu Kumar……
      ……U gotto insert ur Vista CD and click format Windows Vista…..then insert ur XP CD……Now U R ready to install XP!!……
      …………Keep rockinn!!

    • mave

      love nad gratitude raymund….. mabuhay ka…..(long live)

    • Jarmo

      great help for me, saved my day.

    • DarkeKun

      Very easy to understand, and do, hehe, even i could do it, and that says alot :)

    • Gewargis

      Hi Raymond,

      Thank you for your helpful instructions.

      I have Toshiba Qosmio G25-AV513, I lost it recovery CD.
      I tried your instructions, above but doesn’t helped me to solve find HDD, every time blue screen appear with on option “Press F3 to reboot”!!!.

      please, advise if there are another way to solve this problem? without using recovery CD.

      Thanks for your attention to this questions.

      Best regards,

    • basava

      hello
      i have Compaq Presario cq40 i’m creating nlite to sata drivers it’s not working for my laptop when i installing time blue scren is coming plzzzz help me thanks in advince
      or email me basava_sb@yahoo.co.in

    • Fearl3$$

      This is a nice app to Quickly change your Windows Disk.
      But, I have tested it and it seems, that the 1st part of the text phase installation works, until windows actually starts installing and gathering+ copying files, then it cant find the sata-Raid Sys,Inf,dll files.

      But it seems the problem was the Brand New Samsung DVD writer I bought….
      Samsung Drives is the crapiest drive you can get, but that is al that was available, and I needed a Dvd rw drive urgently. Installed Windows with a LG Cd rom, no probs….

    • sree

      Thank you for your helpful instructions.

      I have Toshiba Qosmio G25-AV513, I lost it recovery CD.
      I tried your instructions, above but doesn’t helped me to solve find HDD, every time blue screen appear with on option “Press F3 to reboot”!!!.

      please, advise if there are another way to solve this problem? without using recovery CD.

      Thanks for your attention to this questions.

      Best regards,

    • pete

      Thank you for your instructions.

      It helped having clear and concise directions. nLite is pretty simple but it is nice to know what to expect.

      Was able to use this method to slipstream ICH10R RAID drivers into Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 using the driver files provided by Supermicro for my X8SAX.

      I hope someone else in the same situation finds these directions.. I really didn’t want to install a floppy drive in my new server!

    • shahed

      Thanks for your attention to this questions.

    • surda

      man you saved me! thanks for your help.

    • sandeep

      hi i got the same prbm can u help me by sending that xp link plz …………………

    • dd

      very good, thank dude..for your information :D

    • Rob

      i’ve been searching all days in the net for good tutorial

      and i’ve found this.. very easy to understand

      thanks

    • Amit Johar

      This was a lifesaver. Saved me lot of headache and pain. It worked flawlessly and I was able to integrate the SATA raid drivers into the xp install CD. What a relief!!!! I am absolutely amazed at the nlite software. It is wonderful free utility. I was almost going to buy a pack of floppy disk and external floppy drive. Saved me money! Excellent demonstration. You should definitely be compensated for saving all of us further headache and pain. I would not mind donating.

    • William

      Your instructions to integrate raid drivers was easy and not hard to understand , thank you very much for all the information .

    • bob

      Thank you for your helpful

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