reformating a hard drive

Perhaps but it would all be so easy if you just stopped nipping at my heals like an annoying chihuahua. I have no interest in arguing with you I just want you to think a little before posting.

 

Sam tends to do that, I think it's an ego thing.

 

Sam may do a little nitpicking, every once in awhile, but he has certainly helped a multitude of folks, over the years.

As has Sophocles.

 

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/...d-find-any-sata-hard-disk-drive-on-ahci-mode/

 

Well that's all well and good, but what happens when you get criticised when you weren't even nitpicking?

 

now i dont want to fight....

when the information provided by a member is wrong others will come in and correct it, i personally have provided in correct information wayyyy to many times but fortunately others have come in spotted it and pointed out it was wrong

if it weren't for me, gooody, and the good king engage all of you would be under the impression that XP can be installed without the use of a sata controller(s) which it can't (we have all agreed that there are ways around this ....that only apply in some circumstances however)

so being nit picky is good thing, it helps us get our information straitened out

ahh Sophocles sammy was justing asking a question?? soo whats the deal??

OK ya know what...lets have a nice debate??? changing the boot order does not spawn sata drivers, alls your doing is setting the cd-rom drive to boot first, which isn't going to create a sata driver, so stop saying that by changing the boot order your computer will have sata support because it wont! and computers like gateways that have locked bios's there isn't even away around it!! you must install the drives at boot in order to get XP to detect the discs!!!.....why do you think software like nlite was created??? why do computer manufacturers give out sata drivers?? because they know during a reinstall SATA drivers might/ most probably will be needed....

we have proven it in this thread Sophocles, sorry for the instigating i apologize

-tripplite

 

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/...d-find-any-sata-hard-disk-drive-on-ahci-mode/

 

Even I'm in agreement with sophocles on that one, it was a bit harsh.
This thread's redundant, I think it should be closed and we should move on, and no hard feelings Soph, I genuinely wasn't intending to nitpick.

Oh darn it, my reply is halfway up the page...

 

From killalot's link.

I've installed SATA drives on probably better than 40-60 PC's can't remember, and again in 100% of the installations nothing more was needed than the XP install disc. I am however willing to concede as I have previously that there are some computers that simply won't respond to what I've recommended. I just haven't seen one yet, but no doubt will. Among computers that I've had success with included run of the mill compag/HP systems, and of course the tweaked out rigs that I've built for myself, friends, and paid for clients.

Sounds familiar to me.


In regards to Sammy, I don't mind him adding salient information to a discussion, but this constantly showing up with pointless information to nitpick at something that was not a part of the discussion gets tiresome. A rhetorical question is when one already knows the answer to it before asking.

 

I've already quoted what killalot posted, so no need to get into that.

Only way you could have accomplished that was with the OEM XP cd, supplied by the vendor, with the embedded SATA drivers included. Or, use that workaround.

All I'm trying to say is that XP doesn't have support for SATA controllers, out of the box.

 

Are you by any chance a Keebler Elf??? let me guess your job got outsourced to a Chinese bakery and now you assembly computers for Dell??

perhaps all those cookie fumes have gone to your head......

and your keebler magic right??? because nothing can be done without keebler MAGIC!!! heheheCOPTER

-tripplite

 

Actually we have a corporate license where I can download ISO copies of XP Pro, and server 2003. All of our computers were purchased by the Schoolboard of Hillsborough County.

We can debate this until the cows come home, but to what end. It's clear that some of us can install an SATA drive using no more than the original XP install disc, I've done it many times and have yet to experience it not working. I have two OEM copies, an Upgrade copy, and two retail copies. I have 5 desktops (one has Linux on it), all of them have SATA drives in them, and I have never used anything to install but the discs mentioned above.

Since the OP is no longer participating in this thread and I see no reason to continue to debate what I know I've done and is true for my systems. Have a good day!!

I no doubt will run into one where I won't be successful and then I will have to consider slip streaming driver to a disc. BTW, I've always used Nero 6 or 7 to slipstream discs, but then at the time there were no independent software that did it.

 

BTW, that's assemble.

Actually I provide technology services to the school system I work for. In one school alone there is close to 600 computers

That is just unnecessarily rude and very ignorant of you. First it implies that because I disagree with you I am lying, which I am not, and that you know something I don't which is obviously untrue.