Loading ACHI diver on XP home 32 with no FDD

[Scuttle]

Hi

Apology’s if this has already been covered and for my lack of knowledge, but I can't find how out how to load the ACHI driver with no FDD for XP home 32 SP2. I have already loaded XP and it recognised the HDDs without any apparent problems.

I have a GA-870A-USB3 which has no IDE connector. When I press F6 and s to install a 3rd party diver it just says it cant find a FDD. It doesn't appear to recognise the driver on th USB stick, I assume because there are no USB2 drivers loaded at that point???

What's the easy way round this problem?

Thanks

[autotech]

http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

That will give you a bootable usb drive if you have a computer you can slipstream the ACHI drivers into a windows install and boot from the usb and do it all from it.

[Scuttle]

Thanks autotech

Ended up CD slipstreaming with nLite. The driver ahcix86.cat/inf/PNF/sys  has been added to C:\WINDOWS\NLDRV\001 and C:\WINDOWS\NLDRV\002

When I changed from IDE to ahci in the BIOS, it got to the XP screen and just kept restarting. I take it I'm missing something obvious?

[Wazel]

Hello,
I fought with this same issue for a very long time. There are many ideas on the web regarding this issue.
The way to get XP on a machine that has no floppy with the hard drive controller set to ACHI is the the following.

You need nlite.
You Need your orginal XP installation disk.
You Need Service pack 3 for XP
You need your XP ACHI driver for your motherboard.
You need your XP software key

Build a XP install disk with SP3, your software key and your ACHI driver intregrated then it will work.


The secret ingredient to this mixture is SP3.... that nugget of knowledge makes XP work with ACHI.

[Scuttle]

I'm still trying to pick my jaw off the floor Did you sign up just to post that Golden Nuget? My faith in humanity has just been restored. How did you arrive at my thread?

I'll give it a go when the wifes at work, she gets cranky when she can't shop online. Your right, loads of info on this. All a bit confusing at my level - this is my first build and I know just enough to have a go.

So have I got this right ? - Set to achi,  let it crash and slipstream on the next boot.

Thanks again

[Wazel]

No, do a completly fresh install. Set the controller to ACHI then install XP with
the custom CD you built from my instructions. And yes I did join just to share my discovery :-)