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June 6th, 2009 14:00
Clean install of Windows XP Media Centre Edition
I have a Dimension 9150 running Windows XP Media Edition. When I bought it in December 2005 the configuration was 500 GB Serial ATA Raid O Stripe (2 x 250 GB 7200 RPM Sata Hard Drive). After having many problems with blue screens etc, a Dell agent came out to help with the problems, which they weren't sure were hardware or software. Finally a technician reinstalled XP at my home and all seemed well. Most things seemed to work alright (my card reader didn't, although I didn't realize this at first). However, not being very computer savvy I hadn't really understood that the set up was now non-raid but was aware it was slower. However, time has passed and I have now had other unrelated problems and decided to do a clean install of Windows XP myself which I thought would be relatively straightforward. At the same time restoring it to Raid configuration. Boy, have I got in a pickle. I have backed up all my data. I have enabled Raid in the BIOS but when I click F6 to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver, I don't have a diskette. I don't know for sure which I need, although I think it is Intel (R) 82801FR Sata Raid Controller but can't find the download for this to put on a floppy disk. I have the Dell Resource CD but don't know if it is on this or not and really don't know how to proceed.


mombodog
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June 6th, 2009 19:00
Here is the Sata driver for F6 install
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R130118&SystemID=XPS/DIMENSION%20400/9150&servicetag=&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=8615&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=2&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=1&libid=41&fileid=173456
you will need a floppy drive connected to use F6 option, or you will have to slipstream the driver into the XP CD by using this free Nlite program, very easy to use, please read the guides.
http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html
Here are the rest of the XP drivers should you need them
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag=&SystemID=XPS/DIMENSION%20400/9150&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=
Rosemary2009
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June 7th, 2009 04:00
Thanks Mombo. I have a floppy drive on my pc. I have downloaded the file on another computer (the one I am using now, which also has a floppy drive). However, do I just highlight the file and send it to A: ? - Sorry, did say I was not very computer savvy.
mombodog
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June 7th, 2009 12:00
Double click the R130118 file you downloaded, it will extract the files to C:\Dell\Drivers\R130118, then copy these extracted files to the A drive
Rosemary2009
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June 7th, 2009 14:00
Many thanks Mombo, that's brilliant, got diskette now and ready to go.