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August 26th, 2009 10:00
How to extract Sata drivers with no floppy
Ok, so my fauther in laws computer is blue screening. I'm planning on trying a repair, and faling that a complet reinstall since I got all the data off it. Trouble is that his drive is a SATA. So Windows XP won't reconise it by default. Not a big deal since I know how to slip stream the drivers in. Problem is the drivers off the Intel page dont seem to work, I mad a disk that should work with any Intel SATA controler. And the drive from the dell page will only work to creat a floppy out of the box. I was wondering if there is another location to get the dell drivers from or if there are command line option to simply extract the drivers to a hardrive. It seems realy stupid for them to lock it in to only working on a floppy so Im hopping there is.
And before you say just go to a computer with a floppy and then copy them off the floppy drive. The only other computer I have ready access to is mine, and it doesn't even support the interface for a 3.5 inch drive. 1 PATA and 6 SATA connection only, no EIDE, so I cant take the flopy drive in his out and put it in mine, and His is BSODing as I said so I cant make the disk on his.
For you information his is a Dell Dimention 8400.
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August 26th, 2009 18:00
You don't need a floppy to fix this.
Reboot and press F2 before XP starts to load. That launches BIOS setup. In BIOS setup, look for the Drive Controller settings. Change it to RAID Autodetect/ATA. Save the change, put the XP CD in the drive and exit setup. It should boot from the CD and allow you to run the reinstallation.
But hang on a nano-sec. If this system was shipped after July 14, 2004, the hard drive hasn't previously been reformatted or replaced, you should have Dell's PC Restore on the drive. It will reset the drive to exactly the way Dell shipped it with XP, drivers, and software in ~10 min vs ~2 hr for a reformat reinstall. All you'd have to do is install XP SP3 and all other Microsoft updates afterwards, just like you'd do after a reformat and clean XP install.
Access PC Restore by rebooting and immediately pressing the Ctrl key. While holding Ctrl down, quickly press F11. Release both at the same time. Follow the prompts to run PC Restore. Keep in mind that everything on the hard drive will be lost, so it's essential that personal files are backed up first.
Ron