SATA Controller Drivers and Windows Vista

Question

Hello all, I was just wondering whether if one has a SATA HD installed on a new dell PC bought recently, and during installing of Vista, will it auto recognize the SATA hard disk or will the end user need to faf about finding the SATA Controller drivers to load it up etc... or would it just be automatically found? Thanks NIK.

Anosh · Answer

With Vista RC1 you have to provide the drivers. I put them on a usb drive and it went quite easy to load them.

davejohn · Answer

RC2 included the drivers.  No need to F6.   Dave

NiKRuLeZ · Answer

So you dont have to have the SATA controller drivers on the final version of Vista, they should just auto pick up the SATA hard disk upon installation?

sawaddi · Answer

Depends on the model computer, and whether the SATA drive will be the boot drive.  Is the XP CD the latest version from Dell?

davejohn · Answer

So you dont have to have the SATA controller drivers on the final version of Vista, they should just auto pick up the SATA hard disk upon installation? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Correct, unless they change it from RC2 to the final release.  Which doesn't make sense.   Dave

Matt Artelt · Answer

Oops...Guess I didn't realize that my first amendment rights are limited on this forum.

Here's my politically correct version of my previous post. Hopefully my commenting on the fact that it was removed doesn't get my account banned, but if so, no biggie I guess.

"Sir, you did not need to provide a driver in this particular case because Microsoft simply integrated a greater number of newer chipset drivers into its WinPE setup environment. When new hardware comes after Vista is released, you will still need to provide a driver, just as you had to in XP. According to documents I browsed earlier, however, in Vista you will finally be able to use USB memory sticks and/or CDs/DVDs, as appropriate, instead of the only being allowed to use floppies, quite an obsolete technology if I may say so. I am quite pleased that with this turn of events I should never have to make an attempt at slipstreaming drivers into a Windows installation disk again."

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SATA Controller Drivers and Windows Vista

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