Loading Third Party SATA Drivers

How do you load a third party SATA driver if the drivers and windows OEM
files exceed the 2MB limitations of the A: drive.

- Is there a way to get the computer to think the CD drive is the default a:
drive? Then I can use the CD that came with the motherboard to load the
drivers as I load WinXP Home.


Thanks for the help

SLS wrote:
> How do you load a third party SATA driver if the drivers and
> windows OEM files exceed the 2MB limitations of the A: drive.
>
> - Is there a way to get the computer to think the CD drive is the
> default a: drive? Then I can use the CD that came with the
> motherboard to load the drivers as I load WinXP Home.

The actual driver that would be used for the F6 installation (what I assume
you are trying to do) should *not* be greater than 1.44MB. You could be
including far more than you need and making it greater - but it should fit
easily on the floppy diskette.

Your other choice is to integrate/slipstream the driver into your Windows XP
CD and burn a new copy of it to utilize and install with.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Shenan,
Excellent thank you. I will try both options.
Based on your instructions I assume that all I need is the WinXP driver
and the OEM file. I did not realize that I did not need all the files.
Other than the SATA driver and the text OEM file are there any other files
that are required for WinXP to load the driver?

Again, thanks for the help!!!!

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> SLS wrote:
> > How do you load a third party SATA driver if the drivers and
> > windows OEM files exceed the 2MB limitations of the A: drive.
> >
> > - Is there a way to get the computer to think the CD drive is the
> > default a: drive? Then I can use the CD that came with the
> > motherboard to load the drivers as I load WinXP Home.
>
> The actual driver that would be used for the F6 installation (what I assume
> you are trying to do) should *not* be greater than 1.44MB. You could be
> including far more than you need and making it greater - but it should fit
> easily on the floppy diskette.
>
> Your other choice is to integrate/slipstream the driver into your Windows XP
> CD and burn a new copy of it to utilize and install with.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>

Your motherboard manu site will have a download for the 'make floppy' sata
driver.
There is usually instructions, and file, also on the mobo cd utilities

"SLS" <SLS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9B749A6E-D9B3-424D-AD4B-66971D814459@microsoft.com...
> Shenan,
> Excellent thank you. I will try both options.
> Based on your instructions I assume that all I need is the WinXP driver
> and the OEM file. I did not realize that I did not need all the files.
> Other than the SATA driver and the text OEM file are there any other files
> that are required for WinXP to load the driver?
>
> Again, thanks for the help!!!!
>
> "Shenan Stanley" wrote:
>
>> SLS wrote:
>> > How do you load a third party SATA driver if the drivers and
>> > windows OEM files exceed the 2MB limitations of the A: drive.
>> >
>> > - Is there a way to get the computer to think the CD drive is the
>> > default a: drive? Then I can use the CD that came with the
>> > motherboard to load the drivers as I load WinXP Home.
>>
>> The actual driver that would be used for the F6 installation (what I
>> assume
>> you are trying to do) should *not* be greater than 1.44MB. You could be
>> including far more than you need and making it greater - but it should
>> fit
>> easily on the floppy diskette.
>>
>> Your other choice is to integrate/slipstream the driver into your Windows
>> XP
>> CD and burn a new copy of it to utilize and install with.
>>
>> --
>> Shenan Stanley
>> MS-MVP
>> --
>> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>>
>>
>>

Thanks, I found it and have made the disk. I should have sent these
questions out days ago. You all have saved me.

"DL" wrote:

> Your motherboard manu site will have a download for the 'make floppy' sata
> driver.
> There is usually instructions, and file, also on the mobo cd utilities
>
> "SLS" <SLS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:9B749A6E-D9B3-424D-AD4B-66971D814459@microsoft.com...
> > Shenan,
> > Excellent thank you. I will try both options.
> > Based on your instructions I assume that all I need is the WinXP driver
> > and the OEM file. I did not realize that I did not need all the files.
> > Other than the SATA driver and the text OEM file are there any other files
> > that are required for WinXP to load the driver?
> >
> > Again, thanks for the help!!!!
> >
> > "Shenan Stanley" wrote:
> >
> >> SLS wrote:
> >> > How do you load a third party SATA driver if the drivers and
> >> > windows OEM files exceed the 2MB limitations of the A: drive.
> >> >
> >> > - Is there a way to get the computer to think the CD drive is the
> >> > default a: drive? Then I can use the CD that came with the
> >> > motherboard to load the drivers as I load WinXP Home.
> >>
> >> The actual driver that would be used for the F6 installation (what I
> >> assume
> >> you are trying to do) should *not* be greater than 1.44MB. You could be
> >> including far more than you need and making it greater - but it should
> >> fit
> >> easily on the floppy diskette.
> >>
> >> Your other choice is to integrate/slipstream the driver into your Windows
> >> XP
> >> CD and burn a new copy of it to utilize and install with.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Shenan Stanley
> >> MS-MVP
> >> --
> >> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> >> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>