Installing Windows was: speakup is nice

[Kerry Hoath]

Consider yourself corrected,
a disk with sp2 has some sata drivers in it, sp3 has more.
You still might need to put drivers in such as the intel ahci drivers with 
the f6 method or slipstream.


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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: Installing Windows was: speakup is nice


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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
>>> Windows doesn't have SATA drivers? How quaint?
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 05:28:05PM -0600, Nick Dotson wrote:
>> Wrong!  I'm using them under XP Home Pro and Vista.
>
> Vista does have sata drivers as far as I know. Xp home and pro are a
> different story though, because they don't in fact come with sata
> drivers. From what I know, the way to install xp onto a system with
> only sata controllers is to get the drivers for that controller for xp
> from the manufacturer, and choose the option during xp install that
> lets you add additional drivers, before xp goes searching for drives,
> and doing the rest of the install. I do stand to be corrected here
> though, but that's what I know.
>
> Things might have changed for a xp cd with sp3 integrated, but it
> would surprise me if that's actually the case.
>
> Greg
>
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