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SATA driver
I have just bought a Dim 8400. Decided to partition hard drive(used seagate diskwizard), problem now is when loading xp I have to load sata driver from A; floppy drive. I dont have a floppy drive so installed one (letter B: assigned). Bios sees it but cant access it from dos (floppy opens in other machine). CD rom is A drive. copied driver on to CD, xp wont load sata driver from CD. Any ideas what I can do.
Lionheartilly
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Posted January 2nd, 2005 17:00
I have a similar problem. Trying to upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro since i obtain a copy from my school. I would like the SATA driver so that XP Pro can be used. I've installed floppy too and can't access it in both windows and while trying to reformat using XP Pro.I think I've seen some other posts regarding this and DELL should have a FAQ on how users can upgrade.LionLionheartilly
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Posted January 7th, 2005 14:00
Thanks...any info will be appreciated.LionLion,
Make a list of devices in device manager
Install temp floppy drive if you don’t have one.
Put clean floppy in drive.
Set computer to boot from cd. Insert Dell’s driver cd in drive and reboot.
You get 6 options option 3 is what you need for Dim8400.
Driver’s load to floppy, leave floppy in drive.
Swap to O/S cd and reboot.
Press f6 when blue panel appears at bottom of screen.
You get more options press "S". When asked to put floppy in drive press return.
I got the option of 2 drivers I picked the AHCI driver it was the wrong one but still works.
Driver installs and O/S completes it’s installation.
Set computer to boot from H/D first and re boot.
Install intel controller driver first, reboot then install other drivers.
Check to see if device manager is the same.
JB,Lionheartilly
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Posted January 9th, 2005 02:00
Thanks. One problem with that is that I don't have the DELL drivers CD.
I talked w/ a DELL representative and they say that it's part of their new program to include all that in the hard drive that comes with the system.
I install the XP Pro on a ATA/IDE 20GB hard drive, and tried to install a variety of drivers from the DELL website and got everything pretty much to work, but it's not able to detect the SATA DELL original drive and also a third (ATA/IDE) 250GB hard drive.
All my data from my old comp is in the 250GB and I need that to be operational.
Any advise? Know where I can form/make the DELL resource CD?
Thanks
Lion
Dont now what happened. It decided to post it twice before I finished.
If you got as far as the computer was connected to internet you could use Dells configuration program at http://support.euro.dell.com/uk/en/fixmydell.asp to work out which drivers you need.
Check my private message.
JB,
KarthikAdla
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Posted January 2nd, 2005 02:00