Repair Reinstall XP for SATA Driver Support - which driver for 32bit XP?

Hi, I've gotten help on this topic a couple months ago but am still
running into problems. I have a nice clean image of my OS partition
that is customized and updated just the way I like it. I use True
Image to restore the image every so often but it's been a long time
since I've installed the OS from scratch and this is something I very
much want to avoid doing.

The problem is that I bought my first SATA hard drive but have
previously been using IDE and now I want to upgrade. The only way to
install the drivers is to do it during the OS install or during the OS
repair. It's my understanding that I should be able to repair-install
the drivers onto the OS parition of my IDE drive, backup the image,
then transfer it to my new SATA drive. I don't care about RAID. I
just want to install whatever I need to in order to use the SATA.

Windows XP (full version retail CD) SP2 (I'm running 32 bit)
Gigabyte 965P S3 motherboard with F5 bios

I went to Gigabyte's website and downloaded the latest SATA driver.
There were three non-beta files but only one 32-bit driver so that's
the one I got. I extracted it and moved it to a Floppy Disk.

I booted from the XP CD and pressed F6 to grab the 3rd party drivers
off the Floppy Disk. It came be four choices and I'm not sure which to
choose:

Gigabyte GBB363 RAID Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
Gigabyte GBB363 AHCI Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
Gigabyte GBB360 RAID Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
Gigabyte GBB360 AHCI Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)

In a all too typical case of Murphy's law I'm having trouble finding
the install CD that came with the Mobo. The manual shows "Gigabyte
GBB36X Controller (windows 2k/XP/2003)" as the correct choice from the
CD, but with the driver from the website it appears I must choose
between RAID and AHCI. I'm not entirely clear on the difference but it
seems as though I must chose now and I won't be able to change it
later. From reading old posts, it seems to me that the way to go is
RAID 0. Nothing fancy. I just want to use the drive in a stable and
straightfoward fashion.

Anyway, which driver should I select?

On the last run through, I choose RAID 363 then the next screen told me
to reinsert my Windows CD into drive A:, FDD. The @#$* FDD! Due to a
lack of IDE ports, I had to hook up the CD via my USB so I think the XP
repair-install was unable to see it (even though it was running FROM
the very same USB CDrom). Anyway, I'll try again with a true IDE
CDRom, but it's not much use if I don't know which driver to choose.

I've been reading online repair-install tutorials and at some point a
menu pops up giving me three choices:


1. To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.

2. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press
R.

3. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3


Do I choose the FIRST option, then choose the partion and push "R" to
repair or should I just select option 2 from this first menu? I tried
this before (without pushing F6). That time I choose the first option
but there was not a later option for selecting R on the partition,
probably because there really wasn't anything to repair. However, if I
choose 2 from above, won't that wipe out more data that is necessary?
Again, my only aim is to install the SATA drivers.

Any help is appreciated. This has been a nightmere. It's a long story
but for reasons not worth getting into I have to go through quite a
process just to go through one XP reinstall and it's very time
consuming with each go through.

Oh, one more thing. During reinstall it asks me for the Administrator
password. I didn't create one but there was no way to enter "nothing".
Hitting return on the empty field just kicked me out of the setup.
I've since created a password just for this purpose, but is there a way
to get passed the password prompt if you DON'T create one?

Thank you for your time.

Jim

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> Hi, I've gotten help on this topic a couple months ago but am still
> running into problems. I have a nice clean image of my OS partition
> that is customized and updated just the way I like it. I use True
> Image to restore the image every so often but it's been a long time
> since I've installed the OS from scratch and this is something I very
> much want to avoid doing.
>
> The problem is that I bought my first SATA hard drive but have
> previously been using IDE and now I want to upgrade. The only way to
> install the drivers is to do it during the OS install or during the OS
> repair. It's my understanding that I should be able to repair-install
> the drivers onto the OS parition of my IDE drive, backup the image,
> then transfer it to my new SATA drive. I don't care about RAID. I
> just want to install whatever I need to in order to use the SATA.
>
> Windows XP (full version retail CD) SP2 (I'm running 32 bit)
> Gigabyte 965P S3 motherboard with F5 bios
>
> I went to Gigabyte's website and downloaded the latest SATA driver.
> There were three non-beta files but only one 32-bit driver so that's
> the one I got. I extracted it and moved it to a Floppy Disk.
>
> I booted from the XP CD and pressed F6 to grab the 3rd party drivers
> off the Floppy Disk. It came be four choices and I'm not sure which to
> choose:
>
> Gigabyte GBB363 RAID Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
> Gigabyte GBB363 AHCI Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
> Gigabyte GBB360 RAID Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
> Gigabyte GBB360 AHCI Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
>
> In a all too typical case of Murphy's law I'm having trouble finding
> the install CD that came with the Mobo. The manual shows "Gigabyte
> GBB36X Controller (windows 2k/XP/2003)" as the correct choice from the
> CD, but with the driver from the website it appears I must choose
> between RAID and AHCI. I'm not entirely clear on the difference but it
> seems as though I must chose now and I won't be able to change it
> later. From reading old posts, it seems to me that the way to go is
> RAID 0. Nothing fancy. I just want to use the drive in a stable and
> straightfoward fashion.
>
> Anyway, which driver should I select?
>
> On the last run through, I choose RAID 363 then the next screen told me
> to reinsert my Windows CD into drive A:, FDD. The @#$* FDD! Due to a
> lack of IDE ports, I had to hook up the CD via my USB so I think the XP
> repair-install was unable to see it (even though it was running FROM
> the very same USB CDrom). Anyway, I'll try again with a true IDE
> CDRom, but it's not much use if I don't know which driver to choose.
>
> I've been reading online repair-install tutorials and at some point a
> menu pops up giving me three choices:
>
>
> 1. To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.
>
> 2. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press
> R.
>
> 3. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3
>
>
> Do I choose the FIRST option, then choose the partion and push "R" to
> repair or should I just select option 2 from this first menu? I tried
> this before (without pushing F6). That time I choose the first option
> but there was not a later option for selecting R on the partition,
> probably because there really wasn't anything to repair. However, if I
> choose 2 from above, won't that wipe out more data that is necessary?
> Again, my only aim is to install the SATA drivers.
>
> Any help is appreciated. This has been a nightmere. It's a long story
> but for reasons not worth getting into I have to go through quite a
> process just to go through one XP reinstall and it's very time
> consuming with each go through.
>
> Oh, one more thing. During reinstall it asks me for the Administrator
> password. I didn't create one but there was no way to enter "nothing".
> Hitting return on the empty field just kicked me out of the setup.
> I've since created a password just for this purpose, but is there a way
> to get passed the password prompt if you DON'T create one?
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Jim
>

Not sure I can be much help - sounds like you're having a real nightmare (

I found this on the MS website via a Google search and I've used this method
before when I've had problems with XP (I absolutely loathe having to
reinstall all my programs etc!).

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...ps/doug92.mspx

I'm not familiar with your motherboard as I've got an nforce4 board and I
don't have to load SATA drivers if I need to reinstall XP (I do if I wanted
RAID but I'd rather avoid the hassle).

HTH

BillL

Enable sata in bios, plug in p/f and should work. Thats all I had to do.


"BillL" <> wrote in message
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>
> <> wrote in message
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>> Hi, I've gotten help on this topic a couple months ago but am still
>> running into problems. I have a nice clean image of my OS partition
>> that is customized and updated just the way I like it. I use True
>> Image to restore the image every so often but it's been a long time
>> since I've installed the OS from scratch and this is something I very
>> much want to avoid doing.
>>
>> The problem is that I bought my first SATA hard drive but have
>> previously been using IDE and now I want to upgrade. The only way to
>> install the drivers is to do it during the OS install or during the OS
>> repair. It's my understanding that I should be able to repair-install
>> the drivers onto the OS parition of my IDE drive, backup the image,
>> then transfer it to my new SATA drive. I don't care about RAID. I
>> just want to install whatever I need to in order to use the SATA.
>>
>> Windows XP (full version retail CD) SP2 (I'm running 32 bit)
>> Gigabyte 965P S3 motherboard with F5 bios
>>
>> I went to Gigabyte's website and downloaded the latest SATA driver.
>> There were three non-beta files but only one 32-bit driver so that's
>> the one I got. I extracted it and moved it to a Floppy Disk.
>>
>> I booted from the XP CD and pressed F6 to grab the 3rd party drivers
>> off the Floppy Disk. It came be four choices and I'm not sure which to
>> choose:
>>
>> Gigabyte GBB363 RAID Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
>> Gigabyte GBB363 AHCI Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
>> Gigabyte GBB360 RAID Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
>> Gigabyte GBB360 AHCI Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
>>
>> In a all too typical case of Murphy's law I'm having trouble finding
>> the install CD that came with the Mobo. The manual shows "Gigabyte
>> GBB36X Controller (windows 2k/XP/2003)" as the correct choice from the
>> CD, but with the driver from the website it appears I must choose
>> between RAID and AHCI. I'm not entirely clear on the difference but it
>> seems as though I must chose now and I won't be able to change it
>> later. From reading old posts, it seems to me that the way to go is
>> RAID 0. Nothing fancy. I just want to use the drive in a stable and
>> straightfoward fashion.
>>
>> Anyway, which driver should I select?
>>
>> On the last run through, I choose RAID 363 then the next screen told me
>> to reinsert my Windows CD into drive A:, FDD. The @#$* FDD! Due to a
>> lack of IDE ports, I had to hook up the CD via my USB so I think the XP
>> repair-install was unable to see it (even though it was running FROM
>> the very same USB CDrom). Anyway, I'll try again with a true IDE
>> CDRom, but it's not much use if I don't know which driver to choose.
>>
>> I've been reading online repair-install tutorials and at some point a
>> menu pops up giving me three choices:
>>
>>
>> 1. To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.
>>
>> 2. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press
>> R.
>>
>> 3. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3
>>
>>
>> Do I choose the FIRST option, then choose the partion and push "R" to
>> repair or should I just select option 2 from this first menu? I tried
>> this before (without pushing F6). That time I choose the first option
>> but there was not a later option for selecting R on the partition,
>> probably because there really wasn't anything to repair. However, if I
>> choose 2 from above, won't that wipe out more data that is necessary?
>> Again, my only aim is to install the SATA drivers.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated. This has been a nightmere. It's a long story
>> but for reasons not worth getting into I have to go through quite a
>> process just to go through one XP reinstall and it's very time
>> consuming with each go through.
>>
>> Oh, one more thing. During reinstall it asks me for the Administrator
>> password. I didn't create one but there was no way to enter "nothing".
>> Hitting return on the empty field just kicked me out of the setup.
>> I've since created a password just for this purpose, but is there a way
>> to get passed the password prompt if you DON'T create one?
>>
>> Thank you for your time.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>
> Not sure I can be much help - sounds like you're having a real nightmare
> (
>
> I found this on the MS website via a Google search and I've used this
> method before when I've had problems with XP (I absolutely loathe having
> to reinstall all my programs etc!).
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...ps/doug92.mspx
>
> I'm not familiar with your motherboard as I've got an nforce4 board and I
> don't have to load SATA drivers if I need to reinstall XP (I do if I
> wanted RAID but I'd rather avoid the hassle).
>
> HTH
>
> BillL
>

Shaun wrote:
> Enable sata in bios, plug in p/f and should work. Thats all I had to do.

Have you got the same mainboard? I've been reading up on what's
necessary to get the SATA going and I'm getting some mixed signals.

When hooking up your SATA drive, did you use the orange ports (Chipset
SATA) or did you use the purple ports (Jmicron/Gigbabyte)? Besides
enabling SATA in bios, you have to chose between "IDE" "IDE/RAID" or
"AHCI". Which did you choose? And what about the other SATA in
CMOS.."SATA Port0-3 Native Mode" setting? Enabled/Disabled?

I'm about ready to bite the bullet and just do a clean install, but at
this point I still have the same question about which controller to use
after I push F6 during the install. I don't expect AHCI will do much
for me in terms of speed, but I don't need raid either.

Thanks for you post. I'm gonna experiment some more tomorrow.

BTW, what's "p/f"?


>
>
> "BillL" <> wrote in message
> news:2kdph.32904$. uk...
> >
> > <> wrote in message
> > news: ups.com...
> >> Hi, I've gotten help on this topic a couple months ago but am still
> >> running into problems. I have a nice clean image of my OS partition
> >> that is customized and updated just the way I like it. I use True
> >> Image to restore the image every so often but it's been a long time
> >> since I've installed the OS from scratch and this is something I very
> >> much want to avoid doing.
> >>
> >> The problem is that I bought my first SATA hard drive but have
> >> previously been using IDE and now I want to upgrade. The only way to
> >> install the drivers is to do it during the OS install or during the OS
> >> repair. It's my understanding that I should be able to repair-install
> >> the drivers onto the OS parition of my IDE drive, backup the image,
> >> then transfer it to my new SATA drive. I don't care about RAID. I
> >> just want to install whatever I need to in order to use the SATA.
> >>
> >> Windows XP (full version retail CD) SP2 (I'm running 32 bit)
> >> Gigabyte 965P S3 motherboard with F5 bios
> >>
> >> I went to Gigabyte's website and downloaded the latest SATA driver.
> >> There were three non-beta files but only one 32-bit driver so that's
> >> the one I got. I extracted it and moved it to a Floppy Disk.
> >>
> >> I booted from the XP CD and pressed F6 to grab the 3rd party drivers
> >> off the Floppy Disk. It came be four choices and I'm not sure which to
> >> choose:
> >>
> >> Gigabyte GBB363 RAID Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
> >> Gigabyte GBB363 AHCI Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
> >> Gigabyte GBB360 RAID Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
> >> Gigabyte GBB360 AHCI Controller (win 2k/xp/2003)
> >>
> >> In a all too typical case of Murphy's law I'm having trouble finding
> >> the install CD that came with the Mobo. The manual shows "Gigabyte
> >> GBB36X Controller (windows 2k/XP/2003)" as the correct choice from the
> >> CD, but with the driver from the website it appears I must choose
> >> between RAID and AHCI. I'm not entirely clear on the difference but it
> >> seems as though I must chose now and I won't be able to change it
> >> later. From reading old posts, it seems to me that the way to go is
> >> RAID 0. Nothing fancy. I just want to use the drive in a stable and
> >> straightfoward fashion.
> >>
> >> Anyway, which driver should I select?
> >>
> >> On the last run through, I choose RAID 363 then the next screen told me
> >> to reinsert my Windows CD into drive A:, FDD. The @#$* FDD! Due to a
> >> lack of IDE ports, I had to hook up the CD via my USB so I think the XP
> >> repair-install was unable to see it (even though it was running FROM
> >> the very same USB CDrom). Anyway, I'll try again with a true IDE
> >> CDRom, but it's not much use if I don't know which driver to choose.
> >>
> >> I've been reading online repair-install tutorials and at some point a
> >> menu pops up giving me three choices:
> >>
> >>
> >> 1. To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.
> >>
> >> 2. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press
> >> R.
> >>
> >> 3. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3
> >>
> >>
> >> Do I choose the FIRST option, then choose the partion and push "R" to
> >> repair or should I just select option 2 from this first menu? I tried
> >> this before (without pushing F6). That time I choose the first option
> >> but there was not a later option for selecting R on the partition,
> >> probably because there really wasn't anything to repair. However, if I
> >> choose 2 from above, won't that wipe out more data that is necessary?
> >> Again, my only aim is to install the SATA drivers.
> >>
> >> Any help is appreciated. This has been a nightmere. It's a long story
> >> but for reasons not worth getting into I have to go through quite a
> >> process just to go through one XP reinstall and it's very time
> >> consuming with each go through.
> >>
> >> Oh, one more thing. During reinstall it asks me for the Administrator
> >> password. I didn't create one but there was no way to enter "nothing".
> >> Hitting return on the empty field just kicked me out of the setup.
> >> I've since created a password just for this purpose, but is there a way
> >> to get passed the password prompt if you DON'T create one?
> >>
> >> Thank you for your time.
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
> >
> > Not sure I can be much help - sounds like you're having a real nightmare
> > (
> >
> > I found this on the MS website via a Google search and I've used this
> > method before when I've had problems with XP (I absolutely loathe having
> > to reinstall all my programs etc!).
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...ps/doug92.mspx
> >
> > I'm not familiar with your motherboard as I've got an nforce4 board and I
> > don't have to load SATA drivers if I need to reinstall XP (I do if I
> > wanted RAID but I'd rather avoid the hassle).
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > BillL
> >