Emf Schubert Dip. SATA hard drives have become more and more appreciated tending to substitute the IDE drives due to the increasing speed they offer. Motherboard manufacturers started to implement the new standard years ago, when the technology was young and expensive.

Now, as the SATA HDD prices have lowered to a level where anybody can afford to choose a SATA enabled HDD instead of an IDE one, a great migration has been observed among the common computer users. They choose to install Windows and applications on SATA drives because they provide more speed which determines the system to run smoother. Thus, for those owning older mainboards with SATA support an extra step is required while attempting to install Windows XP. Windows XP does not provide drivers for all the SATA controllers, therefore, during the installation procedure, the user must insert a floppy with the drivers that came in the package along with the motherboard. Not a big deal, not much effort, but the funny thing is that a great number of people passed on their floppy drives. Under these circumstances, no floppy means the impossibility to install Windows XP on SATA (on some mainboards).

The installation guide simply won't detect the SATA HDD. People that were happy they got rid of the old removable drive have now motives to worry. Some may reconsider buying new floppy drives for their computers. Even if I wrote in a precedent article about the utility of the floppy drive, I do not encourage spending your money buying back an obsolete piece of hardware.

Here are 2 ways to integrate the SATA drivers into your Windows XP CD allowing installation without the need of a floppy. 2 Ways to Integrate Floppy SATA RAID. You're completely right. I tried several things, which didn't work out. I found the drivers, but they needed to be installed on a floppy drive. Oct 03, 2007 Hi, can you please send me the Drivers for the Amilo pi 1505 for the sata raid? I really need to install the xp on, i am trying to make an xp.

I will present you a method to avoid this inconvenient by doing a software trick. Let's take it slow. Where is the problem? We have a driver problem strictly because the SATA driver we need does not come embedded in the Windows XP installation package. What if we add the driver by ourselves before installing Windows? What ingredients are involved in this operation?