XP & SATA Drivers

[BC_Programmer]

um... yeah, *censored* is going on here exactly?

http://alter.org.ua/soft/win/uni_ata/

What is wrong with the page? specifics, people. Just take a look at it's WOT scorecard:

http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/alter.org.ua

Nobody removed links to the Generic Mass storage drivers for Win98SE I linked to. These aren't really that much different.

On the other hand, it's best to go with manufacturer drivers, if they exist- for best performance. Usually the SATA drivers are part of the chipset driver, which you should install anyway.

[Geek-9pm]

It is Google that has an issue with web sites in the Ukraine.

Google Is Blocked In 25 Of The 100 Countries They Offer Products In

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/19/google-censorship/
That article mentions the Ukraine among others.
Of course this has no direct bearing on SATA drivers.

My earlier post was based on what I found on Google.

[indogo]

Well this was getting me to rant point. It does appear that there is some political problem with google which I must admit I have come across myself and though I have tried other searches for technical stuff they still are the best in that area. As for images dogpile and others have kept the browser friendly search.

As for the original poster...hi...my suggestion was because he wanted to make some sort of recovery disk so having a universal sata driver would certainly reduce the amount of drivers needed. Indeed for a similar project using windows 2000 I used a universal vga driver to give better resolution/colors on any hardware than the standard driver does for example.

regards

Mike

[llmeyer1000]

WOW! 

It seems that I at the least stirred things up a bit! Thank you all for your comments. I am too tired right now to sort all this out, but I promise that I will look at your comments more. Thanks again. All.

[Geek-9pm]

Forgot to mention.
Your BIOS has an IDE  to SATA emulation mode.
Windows sees the SATA as a IDE device.
Use this to bring up the system. Then later install the right drivers.
Of course, having the right drive to start with is better.

[llmeyer1000]

I've done some more research on my own and found someone that has compiled what he claims is:
"Every driver you need to slipstream Windows XP onto any major hardware platform."
He says "These drivers are often difficult to locate, so we have prepared a driver package for the major AMD, Intel and NVIDIA chipsets of recent make.

He includes the link in this article:
 http://tech.icrontic.com/articles/slipstream_windows_xp/
(The article was written in may 2008 so it may not include the latest drivers, but hopefully will include most.)

This is the link to the driver package if anyone is interested.
http://tech.icrontic.com/downloads/slipstream_windows_xp_drivers

I am hopeful that this will at least come close to the "universal driver package" that I was looking for.

[patio]

"Universal" so called drivers are nothing but a can of worms and can cause more issues than they're worth...
Travel to the MBoard manuf. site and DLoad and install the correct SATA drivers as i suggested...

[andrekakkar]

Hi,

Sorry, just no idea about this.

[Allan]

Hi,

Sorry, just no idea about this.

But it didn't stop you from posting, did it?

[martinmm]

Just 2 cent for the main person with the <WD>hdd . go to WD site there are some explainations there the help area that will help you out. also some links.
       might help keep your hard drive in warranty...
    use their "acronis true image" download.

[Allan]

Just 2 cent for the main person with the <WD>hdd . go to WD site there are some explainations there the help area that will help you out. also some links.
       might help keep your hard drive in warranty...
    use their "acronis true image" download.

1) Please stop posting nonsense
2) This thread is a month old - we'll assume the problem has been addressed by now