Ah, thanks again, David! I never thought about Windows
installation CD's using images as I thought that was only Linux. Duh!
I'll have to see if I can find that driver. And then just burn it,
along with the XP image onto a new disk, eh? Sounds almost too easy
to be true! Love it!
Mark
In [email protected], "David Neeley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Many "new" copies of XP --upgrade or complete install -- are
actually
> versions which did not include the drivers for SATA drives. Without
> that modification in the install CD, the hard disk is not seen by
> Windows XP.
>
> I had a friend who found the proper driver on the Microsoft
Developers
> Network site, IIRC, and added it to his install CD image, which he
> then re-recorded on a fresh recordable CD. It worked quite well,
too.
> Unfortunately, I don't know the URL for retrieving it. My dual-boot
> laptop has an XP install CD I got from HP, so I am (fortunately) not
> bothered with this issue should I have to reload the OS--*again*
(sigh!).
>
> David
>
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