Windows XP on SATA drive

What's the secret to installing XP on a serial drive? I have a computer with
no floppy but plenty of USB ports. I have a small usb floppy reader that has
a disk in it with Intel's SATA storage drivers (IHC9). I'm trying to go from
Vista (came installed on my computer) to a fresh install of XP Pro but when
I boot with a slipstreamed SP2 disk, it reads the floppy SATA drivers with
no problem (I think) then loads more files from the CD and I get to where at
the bottom the setup says "Windows will now start" or something to that
effect. I then get the blue screen of death with 2 error codes: 1)
0x0000007B and 2) 0XF78D2524. I've searched the web for these codes but I
think my floppy has the necessary drivers.

Gateway 5478
Intel G33 m/b
1 IDE input I use for my CD/DVD
4 serial inputs that I use for 2 x 250 gig WD Serial drives
4 gig memory
GeForce 8500GT video card
1 Siig parallel port (because my computer has no parallel por and I won't
let go of my HP laserJet 2100xi printer (excellent printer))

"jimrx4" <jimrx4@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:8B6EC9D8-457F-4B93-AF8F-87E73AD5AB47@microsoft.com...
> What's the secret to installing XP on a serial drive? I have a computer
> with no floppy but plenty of USB ports. I have a small usb floppy reader
> that has a disk in it with Intel's SATA storage drivers (IHC9). I'm trying
> to go from Vista (came installed on my computer) to a fresh install of XP
> Pro but when I boot with a slipstreamed SP2 disk, it reads the floppy SATA
> drivers with no problem (I think) then loads more files from the CD and I
> get to where at the bottom the setup says "Windows will now start" or
> something to that effect. I then get the blue screen of death with 2 error
> codes: 1) 0x0000007B and 2) 0XF78D2524. I've searched the web for these
> codes but I think my floppy has the necessary drivers.
>
> Gateway 5478
> Intel G33 m/b
> 1 IDE input I use for my CD/DVD
> 4 serial inputs that I use for 2 x 250 gig WD Serial drives
> 4 gig memory
> GeForce 8500GT video card
> 1 Siig parallel port (because my computer has no parallel por and I won't
> let go of my HP laserJet 2100xi printer (excellent printer))
>
>

Is your USB floppy disk supported, see MS KB article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916196/en-us

An alternative would be to integrate the SATA drivers into a new XP
installation disk.

You need to press the F6 option when booting to xp cd,at F6 select the
drivers/controller to use,intel usually ships several options with its
floppy.Also,
SATA alone usually doesnt require ICH drivers unless RAID is used,see intel:
http://support.intel.com/support/mot.../CS-010695.htm

"jimrx4" wrote:

> What's the secret to installing XP on a serial drive? I have a computer with
> no floppy but plenty of USB ports. I have a small usb floppy reader that has
> a disk in it with Intel's SATA storage drivers (IHC9). I'm trying to go from
> Vista (came installed on my computer) to a fresh install of XP Pro but when
> I boot with a slipstreamed SP2 disk, it reads the floppy SATA drivers with
> no problem (I think) then loads more files from the CD and I get to where at
> the bottom the setup says "Windows will now start" or something to that
> effect. I then get the blue screen of death with 2 error codes: 1)
> 0x0000007B and 2) 0XF78D2524. I've searched the web for these codes but I
> think my floppy has the necessary drivers.
>
> Gateway 5478
> Intel G33 m/b
> 1 IDE input I use for my CD/DVD
> 4 serial inputs that I use for 2 x 250 gig WD Serial drives
> 4 gig memory
> GeForce 8500GT video card
> 1 Siig parallel port (because my computer has no parallel por and I won't
> let go of my HP laserJet 2100xi printer (excellent printer))
>
>
>