[m4p]

I got a new computer (Gateway) that has no floppy drive. It has an Intel 965 Express chipset motherboard with a Hitachi 400 gig Sata drive. I need to install Windows XP with either a Raid driver or AHCI driver (if I choose regular IDE drive, it only recognizes 100 gigs of the 400 gig HDD). So I put the ACHI drivers on a flash drive and when XP starts installing, I hit F6 to install the driver. Everything goes fine and I am able to format the hard drive in preparation for the XP installation. But then as Windows setup starts, it asks for the Intel Matrix Storage Device driver (this is their ACHI/Raid driver) that is on the Floppy Drive (A), but I don't have a floppy drive, only the flash drive in the USB port, and there is no other choice but to quit Setup.

So far all I can figure out is to create a slipstreamed Windows XP CD with the drivers on it. My questions are as follows:

My Windows XP Pro disk does not have any service packs on it. Do I need to slipstream Service Pack 1a as well as Service Pack 2, or do I just slipstream with SP2 only?

Is choosing ACHI the best option? Would RAID be better, although I only have one physical HDD so don't see how RAID would be appropriate.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Ponch]

m4p, on Jan 4 2008, 12:17 AM, said:

My Windows XP Pro disk does not have any service packs on it. Do I need to slipstream Service Pack 1a as well as Service Pack 2, or do I just slipstream with SP2 only?

SP2 only, it is cumulative. That will also solve your problem with your 400Gig fully recognize.

[m4p]

Ponch, on Jan 3 2008, 08:22 PM, said:

SP2 only, it is cumulative. That will also solve your problem with your 400Gig fully recognize.

Thanks so much. Just finished making my CD using NLite (thanks so much to the author Nuhi). Will test it out tomorrow and report back.