Scsi driver needed for xp pro install?

[cmangle]

A friend got a triple hit of conflicker/malware doctor/ fake avast!

Wiping the hard drive was the final solution.

Now in trying to reload win xp pro onto his 500 gig scsi sata drive I'm getting a install error that says there's some kind of problem with the hard drive!

tech info: 0x0000007B
(0XF78D2524,0XC0000034,0X00000000,0X00000000)

Is there some special scsi driver need to reload XP Pro sp3 onto this drive?

the drive has been reformatted to NTFS.

And it is in a dell vostros 420 machine.

thanks chris

[fandtm666]

go into the bios and check

the sata configuration and set it to ide if it has that option

because xp would not have the sata drivers in it .

If you do not have the option to change the setting the only other way out is to slip stream the drivers needed
onto xp with nlite

[OSIRUS]

I did an Acer Travelmate Laptop earlier this year,

Someone had deleted all partitions & formatted the drive,

this being a mid 2008 Lappy had a 200GB Sata Hard drive in it,

they wanted to Install Windows XP, but the boot disc could not install because Windows XP boot disc does not have a driver for the Sata Hard drive,

(came up as a problem with the hard drive)

So after some google searching I found the necessary Sata driver,

& basically put the Sata driver on a floppy disk & using a USB floppy drive installed the Sata driver by pressing the F6 option as the Windows XP disc boots

this worked for me & Windows XP installed no problems,

But, Slip streaming your drivers into your XP boot disc seems to be the popular choice to do it

[cmangle]

ok so basically I need an XP install disk with sata drivers . . correct?

Also, the computer I use for repair sees the 500 gig sata scsi fine and I don't have any scsi drivers on my machine!. That is how I scanned it for virii and spyware and then reformatted with Ontack!

I thought that the install disk I had used did have the sata drivers with it, but I will doublecheck thanks

Diavalo 13666 said " go into the bios and check, the sata configuration and set it to ide if it has that option"

What should bios SATA settings be?

[cmangle]

How is it though my machine sees it fine? I have no scsi drivers loaded on my machine! Or is this only an issue when installing XP?

Ok how about this, what would I need to add to the 500gig drive to get it boot up and to go to the command prompt so I could navigate to a (xfered from XP install CD) I386 folder and then initiate XP setup from there?

What if I copied msdos.sys, io.sys, and command.com to the 500 gig scsi drive along with the c:\I386 folder and just let the 500 gig HD be the startup source for loading XP from the I386 folder?

[best4less]

Was it Vista on there 1st and now you are trying to put XP on it ???

If so

I had one not so long ago and i thought i killed something BUT it was a setting in the BIOS for the HDD, for the life of me i can't remember but i only had to change one setting and she worked so just go into the HDD bios settings and go sick LOL

[cmangle]

Miracle of all miracles my friend found the XP Install CD that Dell sent along, AND it had on it the scsi drivers slip-streamed on it for this gig sata hard drive!

You guys were right in that a SCSI driver(s) were needed. Still can't figure out how my test computer "SAW" it though!