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June 25th, 2007 14:00

Win XP Pro SP2-SATA HDD compatable?

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Dell XPS M1210 (Seagate ATA 100GB Hdd) presently with VISTA as the OS
  • cciaffone

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    Posted June 25th, 2007 14:00

    We have XP Pro SP2 running on a SATA drive. Works fine.
  • mombodog

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    Posted June 25th, 2007 14:00

    Not sure what the question Is.
  • dodge1955

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    Posted June 25th, 2007 14:00

    Will XP Pro SP2 (or the newest version) recognize a SATA HDD?
    thanks!
    along those lines, what is the most recent version of XP?
  • mombodog

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    Posted June 25th, 2007 15:00

    "Will XP Pro SP2 (or the newest version) recognize a SATA HDD?
    thanks!"
     
    Well yes and no, XP has no problem with Sata hard drives, it is usually the sata controller it does not have the driver for.
     
    What Dell is it?
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    Posted June 25th, 2007 15:00

    XPS M1210
  • jmwills

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    Posted June 25th, 2007 16:00

    Of course it will run in a SATA drive.
  • klauzja

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    Posted July 7th, 2007 02:00

    Guys, pls help! - Can anyone pls advise which Controller driver I need to download (to a Floppy disk) to enable XP to "see" the Controller/HDDs during the setup/install?

    I just bought a refurbished Precision 390 which had, unfortunately Win Vista pre-installed. I have a copy of WinXP Pro SP2 that I want to install on this PC. But can't seem to find the right Controller Driver. I've tried the following without success by pressing F6 during the XP setup processes.

    Serial ATA:Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver - tried about three different versions available from Dell.com, including: R158601.exe, R130118.exe, etc. Below is the summary of the key specs of the PC, just in case:

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    Precision Workstation 390 Mini-Tower: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHz/1066MHz/4MB L2/Dual-core/VT
    C5 All SATA drives, RAID 1, 2 drive total configuration
    256MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX 3450
    Genuine Windows Vista Ultimate
    Operating System CD
    2 GB DDR2 Non-ECC SDRAM 533MHz (2 DIMMs)
    16X DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer write capability
    250 GB EIDE SATA II Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
    250 GB EIDE SATA II Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
    16X DVD ROM Drive
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  • klauzja

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    Posted July 7th, 2007 04:00

    Duh, it helps if I break the RAID1 setup.
    OK so now XP can recognize the drives, with the help of the R158601.exe driver.
    Now my question is how can i actually utilize the RAID adapter to say create the RAID1 or even RAID0 configuration without having XP experiencing the same problem of not seeing the drives.
    Thanks for your help.
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    Posted July 7th, 2007 13:00

    Just an update here on what I was able to do:
     
    Wiped my Seagate serial ATA hdd clean...removed VISTA and everything.
    Bought XP SP2 Home edition and it installed without any addition of 3rd party drivers etc.
     
    The M1210 is much faster and has an additional 25GB or so of HDD space to the the size differences between the 2 OS's