Windows Xp Sp2 Sata Drivers

31.03.2020

One of the major problems that has plagued Windows XP is it’s never had the facility to install itself onto some newer hardware without the need for extra steps. Although SATA, AHCI and RAID enabled storage controllers have been around for several years, the Windows XP install CD never gained the ability to install directly onto this hardware, and you need a floppy disk with the necessary drivers for XP to be able to recognize your hard drives during setup. If you don’t use a driver floppy, you will get the dreaded “Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer” error.

Download a floppy SATA/RAID driver, extract it to floppy disk and then when installing XP, you need to press F6 at the specified time to install the driver. However, most desktop computers and all laptops don’t come with a floppy drive these days, and what makes it worse is you cannot use anything else such as a USB stick to put the drivers on, it MUST be a floppy drive. Although you can use an external USB floppy drive, it would be a waste to buy one just to use it for installing Windows XP. Recently we found a workaround that can enable you to install the SATA drivers from a USB flash drive after pressing F6, but this solution is known to be not 100% working on all computers.

In order to get around having to use a floppy drive, you can integrate the floppy SATA/RAID driver into the Windows XP CD yourself. This way, you can install Windows XP on a SATA hard drive without using a floppy drive at all because the driver is already present on the CD. You’ll need to have an XP CD or the source files contained on one stored on your hard drive, the floppy SATA/RAID driver which can be downloaded from the motherboard manufacturer’s website and a CD/DVD writer.

Here are 2 ways to integrate the SATA drivers into your Windows XP CD allowing installation without the need of a floppy drive.

1: Integrate SATA drivers using nLite

This first method uses the update and driver integrating tool nLite to add the drivers to the Windows XP CD. Just about everyone looking to customize their Windows XP install CD has heard of this tool.

Intel softpaqs do not extract well so no way to get indiv. Driver files. Must retro-install with WinXP, from removable media -usb drive in my case. Zero assuming your controller is one of the ones.

1. Download and install nLite.

2. Download the SATA driver from the motherboard or laptop manufacturer’s website and extract it to a new folder. Alternatively, you might be able to download a newer driver from the SATA or RAID chipset manufacturer such as the drivers from the Intel website for their chipsets. Make sure to get a standalone floppy driver if available or a driver package that includes a floppy driver.

3. Run nLite and select the language to use. Next you need to specify where the Windows XP installation files are. If you already have a folder on you hard drive with the XP CD contents, point to that. If not, insert your XP CD and browse to your disc’s drive letter, select a folder location for it to save to and then wait for it to copy. Click Next once done, and Next again to skip the Presets screen.

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

5. Now click the Insert button at the bottom and select “Multiple driver folder”, choose the folder where the extracted drivers are and click OK. If there are multiple choices, select the correct drivers to integrate. For example, do not select 64 bit drivers on a 32 bit Windows XP. Click OK when done selecting the drivers. Click Next.

6. If this next screen doesn’t appear, you don’t have the correct driver. The driver needs to be of a Textmode type and not a PNP type to be included in the XP setup. Make sure Textmode driver is the selected mode and to choose the exact type of hardware chipset in your system. If you’re not sure, check the documentation or the manufacturers website. For our hardware below we want the Intel ICH9R chipset. Select the drivers you require and click OK and then click Next, and finally OK to start the process.

7. Once the integration has completed, click Next to be taken to the ISO creation and burning screen. You can create a bootable ISO to burn to CD later on, or even burn to CD directly using Direct Burn option. To create and save an ISO simply click the Create Image mode option and then Make ISO. With the help of an ISO file, you could then install Windows XP from a USB flash drive.

The next integration method on page 2 is far easier to get working if you can’t find the right floppy SATA/RAID driver because it makes a universal SATA Windows CD.

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Hi All, Thanks Ray, The extraction of ‘intel matrix’ was a little typical ( only intel tells/knows that ! ) It gave ‘win all’ > ‘driver’ & ‘driver64’ folders. There were 6-6 files in ‘driver’ & ‘driver64’. I chose ‘driver’ for 32 bit drivers & considered 6 files as F6 drivers & it worked !

trigger2 years ago

Thank you, still working
(downloaded Intel “”STOR_Win7_XP_11.2.0.1006” driver to my desktop,
extracted it with 7 zip, and
updated driver from device manager)
and on restart changed BIOS from ata to ahci
2 minutes to fix something that Ive tried to fix for over a week !!!
Try this before anything else
5 STAR ! thanks again

Hi, I have tried both options (followed to the letter) on my CF-30 Toughbook but am still getting the I01_INITIALIZATION_FAILED error. Any other ideas ? Thanks

Bob Still4 years ago

Raymond, I see that this tutorial has been here for many years, and I am certain that your advice here has been used many more times than you will ever know. So few people take the time to say thanks.
I’m not one of those people though. This page was a MASSIVE help to me.
I tried a few “fixes” which came to nothing, then I got to here.
Top quality tutorial, and it worked a treat.
Thank you a million times!
Bob

Thank you sir!! This is realy very usefull.Windows xp is the best operating system.

DaveF5 years ago

NLite seems to be good. The problem is that I can’t afford to pay out $45+ just so that I can use it for one installation.
There’s got to be an ISO file with the SATA drivers already on it, but every one I’ve downloaded doesn’t.
It’ll be easier to buy a second hand laptop with XP64 already on it.

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Where did you get the idea NLite will cost money, it’s always been completely free?

Lee James4 years ago

Poster most likely confused NLite with Nuhi’s NTLite, targetted at Windows 7 and up, which had a price tag of $45 at one point (for the Home or Pro version).

That’s probably right, but if the user follows the link on this page it takes them straight to the nLite website, no need to go anywhere near NTLite.

Zach5 years ago

OMG THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!!!! Acidentally wiped hard drive, had windows vienna cd on usb, tryed to install,didn’t work, remembered i had some linux distros too on the usb, booted them, saw this and LITERALLY chanting “I’m gonna fix it! I’m gonna fix it” Me Being Crowd “He’s gonna fix it, he’s gonna fix it!” THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH, and Thank god for that windows iso and Virtualbox installed :)

Thanks Dear,

I was looking for solution to slipstream the drivers.
My laptop HDD is crashed and its not available in the market (2.5″ 40Gb Ide) so I am planning to install Windows OS on Pen drive and I found Nlite solution very useful to add custom made driver’s in to Installation Disk.
I will update(post) tomorrow, once I done it !!
Thanks again.

Holmss6 years ago

Respect!
Your info help me overcome my XP installation problem

this is a very useful tool. doing a xp install on an old pc and i needed some drivers, thanks for the tutorial

sHaDOW6 years ago

Finally, it’s working!!!
Yeah!! thanks!!

Super Guru!!!!

Bhalchandra5 years ago

cool

Dude-you are genius!!!
Thank you so much for taking the time to help out others, and post screenshots and such
I hope you get blessed in return for your kindness, you deserve it.
Thanks again.

Faisal7 years ago

That was really helpful…. I almost spent half a day trying to sort it out, now it is working fine Thanks

I’ve tried to find the drivers for my PC but i couldn’t, then some guy sent me a link to some driver and i used your tutorial to integrate the drivers but windows couldn’t find the hard drive.

I could solve my problems with DriverPackage thanks to your tutorial.
I believe this is the best way to do this…

Thanks man!

Hera7 years ago

Dear, you saved my time and my money by reading your post. This trick was very easy and helpful to me
Many thanks

Thank you so much for this great info. I was able to slipstream the drivers using Nlite and install XP Professional on my laptop. I have never done this before and it was really pretty easy and your instructions were excellent.

bob9 years ago

Thank you for your helpful

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

Amit Johar9 years ago

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.

i’ve been searching all days in the net for good tutorial
and i’ve found this. very easy to understand
thanks

dd10 years ago

very good, thank dude.for your information :D

man you saved me! thanks for your help.

shahed10 years ago

Thanks for your attention to this questions.

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!

DarkeKun11 years ago

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

great help for me, saved my day.

mave11 years ago

love and gratitude raymond…. long live

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.

Joe11 years ago

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.

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

Rev11 years ago

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!

Excellent blog mate – I’ve just put it in my favorites.

Goverthana12 years ago

Thanks Dude! Your Tutorial helped me cross the bridge.

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

Sam12 years ago

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

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

Dharam12 years ago

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

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

radu12 years ago

Great job, work 100%
thanks

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.

Siegfried12 years ago

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

i can’t still believe it!
you are the genius!
the best tutor in my life!
thank you

aslam vakkayil12 years ago

oh my god it worked…
its not that tough to do.
your tutorial rocks man… thanks a lot
god bless you

Great work Raymond,
……Thanks……
It’s working…………

shai12 years ago

Thanks !

Perfect… Thanks a lot for your article

webcadre12 years ago

great tutorials ray!

thanks a lot!

your blog really helpfull!!!

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Thanks Raymond, very helpfull!

How-To Geek Forums / Windows XP

I am currently running 32-bit windows XP Home on a Dell XPS Gen5 with a 64-bit processor.

I have an additional hard drive, partitioned in half. I want to install Windows XP Professional 64-bit on one of the partitions.

However, the installer recognizes no hard disks. I do not have a floppy drive.

I found this page https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/resolving-setup-did-not-find-any-hard-disk-drives-during-windows-xp-installation/ and followed the directions there.

For the drivers, I went to http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen and entered my service tag. From there, I downloaded the 'Intel - Driver' driver from the category 'SATA Drives.'

I completed the creation of a 'slipstreamed' ISO, burnt it to a CD, and attempted to install again. Nothing changed.

I'm guessing that the drivers I downloaded were for a 32-bit os, though I'm unsure if that would be a problem for the setup.

My questions, I guess, are

a.) Did I get the wrong drivers?
b.) How do I tell if I got the wrong drivers?
c.) How can I find out what the RIGHT driver is?
d.) Where can I find the correct driver to include on the slipstreamed CD?

Thank you for your time.

On a side note, Windows Vista Business 64-bit is installed to the OTHER partition on that drive.. I had to install it from within 32-bit XP Home, though; the installation CD wouldn't boot. Wish XP64 had that option.

If you use Windows 32-bit edition you use 32-bit drivers.
Also I looked at the link you posted and it didn't work.
I looked on Dell's support site and found a driver at http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R130118&SystemID=DIM_PNT_P4_XPS_G5&servicetag=&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=8615&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=2&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=41&fileid=173456
Is that the driver the one you used?

Okay, I got it working.

The process described here ( https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/resolving-setup-did-not-find-any-hard-disk-drives-during-windows-xp-installation/ ) worked; the hard part was finding the correct drivers.

The needed drivers were found via the 'Intel Matrix Storage Manager' download page on Intel's website ( http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2101 ). I selected '64-bit Floppy Configuration Utility for Intel速 Matrix Storage Manager' and downloaded the floppy disk image.

I then used WinImage to extract the drivers, and loaded them into nLite's slipstreaming process. To determine which of the many drivers listed I should actually select, I used the Intel Chipset Identification Utility ( http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/inf/sb/CS-009266.htm ) to figure out which I/O Controller I had, and selected the corresponding AHCI/SCSI/RAID drivers from nLite's list.

Finished the nLite process, burnt and booted the CD, and it installed successfully.

Except because of the order my HDDs were listed in, it installed itself to drive letter 'E:' instead of 'C:'.. but that's a problem with my specific setup, and fixable.

I left out a step - I used winRAR to extract the .IMA floppy disk image from the .exe downloaded from Intel's site.

> Except because of the order my HDDs were listed in, it installed itself to drive letter 'E:' instead of 'C:'.. but that's a problem with my specific setup, and fixable.

If Windows did decide to install with the drive letter E: you can only fix that by reinstalling Windows and making sure it doesn't detect other drives or partitions as C: first.
You usually hide the drives or partitions from the setup with a boot disc that can set the partitions to be hidden and then the setup will usually pick C: for the system drive letter.
After that you just unhide the partitions the same way and the drives will appears as letters D: and up.

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