How to install back SATA??

Hi guys , i recently formated my comp , to get Windows XP instead of Vista Ultimate , i really din't like it ... But in order for Windows XP to detect my harddrive on boot mode , i had to do something with the bios and i think it disabled the SATA and turned in ATA instead , not sure. After installing winxp , i try to turn back on SATA, i get blue screen , windows won't boot.

How do i get back my SATA ??? Thanks !!! I have no disk drive. Will my harddrive be slower than what it suppose to be? Thanks a lot for your time.

 

??? When you switched to XP you probably slipstreamed SATA drivers in. Otherwise, I'm not sure what you're asking.

 

This sounds like AHCI and the Intel Matrix Storage driver. The driver won't be in the XP install (too new) but you could have put it on a separate media and used the F6 option during XP installation.

I'm not sure what AHCI brings to the table if you are running XP, but if you want to get it working then read this thread (which relates to the Intel 965M chipset) and the associated links.

John

 

you're missing a link

 

Thanks. It was there in my mind.

John

 

So if i understand well, there's no way for me to get SATA able with windows xp ? =( , thats saddd.... Will my HD be slower than usual ? Or its almost the same speed ... its a 7200RPM

 

Get back to Vista ultimate and follow my clean install guide for the driver you are talking about.

 

SATA is the type of electrical connection to the HDD and will have not affected the operating system installation.

While, on paper, SATA offers faster interface performance, the bottleneck on notebook HDDs is getting data on /off the disks. SATA might give slightly faster transfer of the few MB in the HDD cache, but the main thing it brings to notebooks is higher idle power consumption than the older PATA.

John