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Ok I have to reinstall XP on a computer but it has a Seagate Barraqcuda 7200.10 hard drive. When I try to install the xp disk can't find the hard driver. I know this is because it's a sata drive. I went to the manufacture web site and they claim no additional drivers are needed.

The sata drivers that I have used in the past do not work for these.

Does anyone know where I can find the sata drives for this?

dragon wrote:I went to the manufacture web site and they claim no additional drivers are needed.

The drive itself does not need any drivers. The problem is almost certainly the SATA interface, presumably on your motherboard (unless you've got a plug-in RAID card or similar). I suggest you go find the latest drivers for your motherboard and tell Windows to look in the appropriate directory when it tries to install.

Starglider wrote:

dragon wrote:I went to the manufacture web site and they claim no additional drivers are needed.

The drive itself does not need any drivers. The problem is almost certainly the SATA interface, presumably on your motherboard (unless you've got a plug-in RAID card or similar). I suggest you go find the latest drivers for your motherboard and tell Windows to look in the appropriate directory when it tries to install.

We're changing vista to xp. When we use the xp disk it say to push F6 to specifiy adition drivers. Other when you when the disk loads it says it can't find a hard driver to install win xp on. Had this before but luckily we had the sata drivers on hand, but they don't work for this one.

dragon wrote:When we use the xp disk it say to push F6 to specifiy adition drivers.

Yes, this is where you put in a floppy disc in with the SATA controller driver on it (USB stick might work, depending on your system, maybe). Another option is copying the install CD to a CD-R/RW and adding the appropriate drivers to it. Google 'windows xp sata install' or take a look at this thread for an example.

The Vista installer can read the drivers off of anything (well, anything readable with default drivers - a USB memory stick is the safest way) so you no longer have to mess with archaic floppies. XP motherboard/SATA drivers should work on Vista.

Netko wrote:The Vista installer can read the drivers off of anything (well, anything readable with default drivers - a USB memory stick is the safest way) so you no longer have to mess with archaic floppies. XP motherboard/SATA drivers should work on Vista.

Yeah it would if we were using a vista disk but were using an xp disk to over write vista. Anyways contact the manufacture of the motherboard and there are no sata drivers for win xp that are compatible with the chipset. So guessI'll have to tell the person that they need to find a non sata hard disk.