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  1. MikeKnooop

    XP Pro Installation with SATA RAID Hard Drive

    I'm doing the ultimate sin on a forum... but I have good news. I have solved my problem. For anyone reading this thread in the future, looking for an answer, my answer lie within the BIOS. On my SATA RAID option (in the BIOS), if I turned it off, it spawned two new lines. Sata Primary Drive...
  2. MikeKnooop

    XP Pro Installation with SATA RAID Hard Drive

    As much as I dislike double posting, I couldn't find an edit button anywhere. This wiki page perfectly describes my problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AHCI "Enabling AHCI mode in BIOS may cause problems with any already installed Operating System, and may require re-installing the OS...
  3. MikeKnooop

    XP Pro Installation with SATA RAID Hard Drive

    Thank you your post has been very helpful so far. The chipset is the Intel 82801ER (ICH5R). On Intels website: http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/cs-015001.htm While it mentions the 82801ER specifically in the footnotes, I've been unsucessful in determining what chipset the 82801ER...
  4. MikeKnooop

    XP Pro Installation with SATA RAID Hard Drive

    It is a proprietary one made by dell :-\ I actually found the exact file I was looking for on a Dell Resource CD. I installed that to a floppy to use at F6. Get this, when I press F6 and select the driver, the installer tells me "It appears this file is older than the one on the CD". Well the...
  5. MikeKnooop

    XP Pro Installation with SATA RAID Hard Drive

    Will these drivers be coming from Intel (motherboard manufacture) or the Hard Drive manufacturer? I guess if the driver caused the installer to go BSOD, it wasn't the right one. -Mike Knoop
  6. MikeKnooop

    XP Pro Installation with SATA RAID Hard Drive

    Hi guys, I'm actually quite new to hardware, which shouldn't surprise anyone that I'm running a pre-fab Dell XPS Gen 2 system. Anway I've had it for a few years and would like to re-install XP Pro on the machine, but there is a catch. Whenever I get to the Installation screen from the BIOS, the...

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