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I've got a t61 with a sata drive and no floppy. that I would like to do a fresh install of XP. I do not have the CD that cam with the system.
I have 30 legal copies of XP for my lab. High school in WA

When I use the XP CD I do not have the drivers for the sata drive on the cd.
I've selected "Compatible" rather than "AHCI" . Then I can see the drive but it comes up with an extra partition on the NTFS. EISA Utilities 6881 MB


If I install XP how can I install the drivers for the harddrive considering when set the bois to "Compatible" I can see the partition.

I s there a drive boot CD i can download?
Can install tyhe drivers from a USB drive or usb floopy?
Can I update the bois with a cd that has the drivers?

By the way . I have learned a boat load about windows from this site.
HiJack This and ProcessExlorer are used on all of our system. I was pointed to those apps from this forum.

The way it works is after the Windows install, you install the proper AHCI SATA driver once Windows is booted up. Then on first reboot you go immediately into BIOS and change the setting back to AHCI mode.
Here's the driver -
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-70477

Harryc wrote:The way it works is after the Windows install, you install the proper AHCI SATA driver once Windows is booted up. Then on first reboot you go immediately into BIOS and change the setting back to AHCI mode.
Here's the driver -
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-70477

I installed 6iim10ww.exe 471,688 Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver
with no luck. i got the ble screen on AHCI.
I can boot with "Compatible" selected.

I see
Primary IDE
Secondary IDE
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
on the device manager.

Any ideas

Go into device manager and into properties for the SATA controller. Update the driver and select the AHCI driver. Any more details than that would have to wait until I boot into XP...maybe tomorrow.