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Question: Install Sata In Unattended Xp


begey

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Hello, I just finished my unattended installation - well, first cautious attempt, still missing hotfixes and most of the tweaks I intend to include.

I had a problem with the drivers for my SATA disk though.

my pc is a small form cube, the only drive is Serial ATA and the raid/ide controller is from VIA (though the chipset is the Nvidia2).

the bios doesn't seem to recognise any disk, I suppose I should try upgrading it but the bios update is something I want to try as a last resort, as it seems more complicate than the usual (strange file format, conflicting instructions on the website).

I was able to install XP home normally by pressing F6 and using a floppy that I made from the drivers' cd.

But when I use the unattended cd something goes wrong: I can press F6, copy drivers from the floppy, the installation proceeds, format C, copy all the installation files but then I am asked for the same driver again, and even if I see that the floppy is searched nothing is found: so eventually I skip installing the driver, windows restarts and at the first sign of the XP logo I have a bsod talking about a possible faulty drive.

I solved the problem by booting with a win98 start up disk (good thing I formatted fat32) and copying manually the missing driver (viaraid.sys) in system32.

At reboot, everything is well.

But why does it happen?

Is it because my unattended cd has a DRIVERS folder that is empty and overwrites the driver it had just copied from the floppy?

What should I put in the script in order to install these or other SCSI/SATA drivers BEFORE windows attempts to find a drive to partition or use?

-I have to learn to make my posts shorter, sorry.

By the way, thank you so much to all of you for all the knowledge on this site and the UNATTENDED subsite, it's absolutely great, and special thanks to all those who are posting sample scripts as they are so essential to someone who is still moving the first steps like me.

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I've had that EXACT same problem with RAID drivers on a floppy disk. Do a search for RAID and look for the thread about integrating the Intel RAID drivers onto the install CD for the best guide as to how to do it.

Actually, I recently bumped it, so it should be somewhere in the first few pages.

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