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Installing Windows XP With F6 AHCI/RAID Drivers From USB Only. Sometimes installing Windows can be a truly challenging problem. For example, if you need to install Windows XP (because it's an old hardware uncapable of running something better), and you need to install operating system to the SATA HDD in AHCI mode or to the RAID controller (with appropriate F6 floppy drivers), but you have neither CD/DVD nor floppy drive available, just USB ports! Using the power of Flash. Boot, you can solve even this challenge.

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This article explains step by step, how to install Windows XP with builtin F6 floppy drivers for AHCI/RAID disk using USB thumbdrive only. What is AHCI/RAID drivers? Who needs them? Hard Disks (HDD) and Solid State Disks (SSD) are connected to the computer via controller. Modern disks have Serial ATA. SATA) interface, old generation of disks had ATA. SATA controller can work in two modes: ATA- compatible mode (i.

Likewise AHCI, operating system. What's F6 floppy drivers for Windows XP installation?

How do they differ from normal Windows drivers? Usually Windows drivers can be installed when installation of the Windows itself is complete. Why? The reason this way doesn't work for disk drivers is because Windows must have access. Temparary disability to use 3. D graphics. sound and network during Windows installation is acceptable, but disability to use. Windows installation effectively impossible. So, unlike other types of drivers, disk drivers must be installed not after Windows.

But how? Windows provides special mechanism for that purpose: loading drivers during Windows Setup. Windows Setup had not yet loaded Windows Kernel, and operating in Text Mode. What's why. these drivers are officially called . How do there drivers differ?

What's special about Text Mode Drivers? The only type of disks. BIOS disks. And BIOS by default provides access to HDD. FDD (floppy disks). Nothing more. As a special exception, CD/DVD and USB drives may be. Otherwise, only HDD.

FDD are accessible. For that reason, Windows must load Text Mode Drivers from floppy. Everything else is. BIOS. 3. What should I do if I don't have floppy disk drive, but I must use F6 floppy drivers? First of all, you can try to disable AHCI mode in your BIOS setup and turn your SATA. ATA compatible mode.

Unfortunately, for some notebooks there's no. BIOS setup. Also, AHCI mode is modern, thus better than ATA in terms. NCQ) and features (for example, hotplugging). The rest of this article assumes that you have to install Windows XP on SATA disk. SATA controller configured in AHCI mode, or via RAID contoller. Because floppy does not exist, HDD is uninitialized, and everything else is just unavailable.

Text- Mode Setup under BIOS, the only way to go is to add AHCI/RAID drivers to. Windows Installation CD itself.

Windows already contains hundreeds of drivers for wide range of supported hardware, but not for. For example, Windows has builting support for ATA disk. So, all you need is just to add (intergrate) your particular driver to the long. How to integrate F6 AHCI/RAID drivers into Windows XP installation disk / ISO file? There's a special software for that purpose called n.

Lite. If your vendor provides. EXE file only, which requires actual floppy. Virtual. Floppy Driver (VFD, Windows XP 3. Virtual. Box or VMWare.

Run NLite and choose . Ignore this screen by choosing . Then click . Wait for process completion. Then wait for completion and click .

How to install Windows XP from customized ISO file with F6 AHCI/RAID drivers if I don't have DVD drive? Use Flash. Boot to convert. ISO file into bootable USB thumbdrive. The process is explained in detail. Troubleshooting. If you have problems integrating SATA/AHCI drivers into Windows XP, read this section.

Q: Which operating systems are supported/recommended? A: None of pre- Windows 2. Windows 3. 1. 1, Windows 9. Windows ME). Windows 2.

Intel drivers. It's recommended to use Windows XP (3. Arduino Processing Serial Port Mac. Windows Server. 2.

Text Mode Drivers from the vendor of your. SATA/RAID controller. Q: Do I need to tweak anything in BIOS setup? A: Yes, you need to enable AHCI mode for your SATA controller, or optionally enable RAID features. For example Intel X5. ASUS P6. T. has SATA controller in southbridge Intel ICH1.

R and also JMicron JMB3. Please make sure you've attached your harddisk(s) to the same controller. Consult your mainboard manual if you are unsure about that. Q: n. Lite or Windows Setup is giving me some weird errors. A: Please use clean, unmodified images of Microsoft Windows XP as input to n. Lite. Q: Any other ideas why it might not work?

A1: BIOS bugs. Try to reflash your BIOS to the latest version. A2: Maybe you are intermixing 3. Windows Setup will find and install the.