Why is MS so outdated?
Why is MS so outdated?
When trying to install any version of Windows, it does not recognize SATA controllers without having to install drivers (press F6 during install). Why does MS only look for floppies during install to add drivers? Floppy drives are so outdated.
I was trying to install Windows XP 64 last night and it would not recognize my SATA controller. I had to copy them to a floppy so that I could load them during the install. I don't have a floppy drive installed in my computer so I was using a USB floppy drive. All went well until it was actually time to copy files. I pressed 'F6' using the USB floppy drive, loaded my SATA drivers, Windows saw the drive, I was able to create a partition, accepted the license agreement, and then Windows says put driver disc for my SATA controller in drive A:.
During the "Press F6", Windows recognizes the USB floppy as A: but once you get farther along Windows and more drivers get loaded Windows no longer sees the USB floppy as A: and I assume it is looking directy at the floppy controller once it gets to that point.
I also tried to install Vista last night and of course it still does not recognize SATA out of the box but every Linux distro that I have installed has recognized the SATA controller every time without any itervention from me.
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I was trying to install Windows XP 64 last night and it would not recognize my SATA controller. I had to copy them to a floppy so that I could load them during the install. I don't have a floppy drive installed in my computer so I was using a USB floppy drive. All went well until it was actually time to copy files. I pressed 'F6' using the USB floppy drive, loaded my SATA drivers, Windows saw the drive, I was able to create a partition, accepted the license agreement, and then Windows says put driver disc for my SATA controller in drive A:.
During the "Press F6", Windows recognizes the USB floppy as A: but once you get farther along Windows and more drivers get loaded Windows no longer sees the USB floppy as A: and I assume it is looking directy at the floppy controller once it gets to that point.
I also tried to install Vista last night and of course it still does not recognize SATA out of the box but every Linux distro that I have installed has recognized the SATA controller every time without any itervention from me.
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Man your preaching to the chior. I have been trying so hard to get away from floppies. Thanks to WinFlash i dont need one for bios updates but the sata problem... i dont know how to help you there, the only thing i can think of is manualy adding the sata driver to the disk and slipstream it in to the install.
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I have slipstreamed my Windows XP with SP2 using this: AutoStreamer. It is very easy with this. You just put your Windows XP CD, run this software , tell it which drive contains Windows XP, tell it where your SP2 file is located, tell it where you want your output to go, and click the button to slipstream. When finished you have a bootable ISO file and you just burn the ISO file to CD.
There are driverpacks for creating slipstreams DriverPacks BASE and then you can use the driver packs with this: Windows XP PowerPacker. The instructions are in the second link also. I would use this but I need the 64bit drivers because I am wanting to slipstream XP 64. They don't have the XP 64 driver packs created yet.
I just can't understand why free Linux distros have SATA support built in but MS (a multi-billion dollar software company) can't include them with their OS.
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There are driverpacks for creating slipstreams DriverPacks BASE and then you can use the driver packs with this: Windows XP PowerPacker. The instructions are in the second link also. I would use this but I need the 64bit drivers because I am wanting to slipstream XP 64. They don't have the XP 64 driver packs created yet.
I just can't understand why free Linux distros have SATA support built in but MS (a multi-billion dollar software company) can't include them with their OS.
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that installation SATA support is really bad...
i installed XP once where it wouldn't boot with the CD
so i used Microsoft's tool to create 7 (or was it 5?) floppies to use before installing XP to gain CD support
i wanted to save my energy and after using the first floppy, i created the second on it (instead of using another floppy) and so on...
except i forgot the F6 thing so i had to do it all over again :/
i installed XP once where it wouldn't boot with the CD
so i used Microsoft's tool to create 7 (or was it 5?) floppies to use before installing XP to gain CD support
i wanted to save my energy and after using the first floppy, i created the second on it (instead of using another floppy) and so on...
except i forgot the F6 thing so i had to do it all over again :/

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Re: Why is MS so outdated?
Dumb question: What is Vista???alister wrote:When trying to install any version of Windows, it does not recognize SATA controllers without having to install drivers (press F6 during install). Why does MS only look for floppies during install to add drivers? Floppy drives are so outdated.
I was trying to install Windows XP 64 last night and it would not recognize my SATA controller. I had to copy them to a floppy so that I could load them during the install. I don't have a floppy drive installed in my computer so I was using a USB floppy drive. All went well until it was actually time to copy files. I pressed 'F6' using the USB floppy drive, loaded my SATA drivers, Windows saw the drive, I was able to create a partition, accepted the license agreement, and then Windows says put driver disc for my SATA controller in drive A:.
During the "Press F6", Windows recognizes the USB floppy as A: but once you get farther along Windows and more drivers get loaded Windows no longer sees the USB floppy as A: and I assume it is looking directy at the floppy controller once it gets to that point.
I also tried to install Vista last night and of course it still does not recognize SATA out of the box but every Linux distro that I have installed has recognized the SATA controller every time without any itervention from me.
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no you copy the XP disk to your HD then apply the service pack or updates and add in the drivers you need. I dont exactly know how to do it but there are plenty of guides out there. Once you have everything copied to the HD you burn a disk and snap your done.
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Yeah, WinFlash appears to be a pretty nifty utility. I've been looking at it, and I really do prefer the GUI approach versus the DOS shell to try to install BIOS updates. I need a link to download it though, you got a link infinitevalence?infinitevalence wrote:Man your preaching to the chior. I have been trying so hard to get away from floppies. Thanks to WinFlash i dont need one for bios updates.

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