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At what point during the motherboard installation should you install the motherboard drivers?
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You should install it after Windows successfully boots.
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You are trying to clean your hard drive but when you put your XP Setup disk in it says that it cannot see the hard drive how do I get it to see the hard drive?
For some motherboard you have to preinstall AHCI drivers. You have to check the motherboard manufacture website and download drivers for SATA controller. And when you are installing xp during first seconds of installation when you see that the OS is asking for drivers something like "Press F6 to install addtional drivers". You have to press F6 and prepare a floppy disk with the AHCI driver on it. thne just install drivers from the floppy and it will allow xp to see and work with the hard drive.
Why won't my scanner scan to my PC?
Uninstall your printer and re-install it. During the installation process, watch the steps and make sure that it installs the drivers for the scanner. Make sure the installation is completely done before doing anything. I'm thinking that the initial installation didn't install everything correctly.
Which version of raid is supported by windows XP?
Any. You should have appropriate drivers for your hardware RAIDs. And during win Xp installation process when it asks to install drivers for SCSI devices (Press F6) and install drivers for your hardware RAID. Vista has native support for many RAIDs so it doesn't require specific drivers. Raid 0 is the correct answer and that includes simple, spanned and striped
Why does Hp mini 1000 restart on shutdown?
There are many causes for a computer to restart during shutdown. The most likely explanation is lack of drivers for the particular motherboard or wrong drivers installed for the particular motherboard. Regards.
Under what conditions can a user install a hardware device?
1. Only administrators can install a hardware device if any type of user input is required. Any user can install a hardware device only if the following are true: the device drivers can be installed without user input, all files necessary for a complete installation are present, the drivers have been digitally signed ( digitally signatures are digital codes that can be used to authenticate the sources of files), and there are no errors during installation. If one of these conditions is not met, someone logged onto the system with administrative privileges must do the installation.
During you can create and delete partitons and select a partition on which to install windows xp?
During XP setup or installation, partitions can be created, deleted and selected for installation.
How do you get windows Xp to setup correctly on a blank drive?
Before you install windows you have to create at least one partition and format it. After that during the windows installation process choose the partition which you created earlier for windows to install itself over there. Also you have to have all required drivers for your hardware (monitor (not always needed), video card, sound card, ethernet, wireless and so on) which you have to install when the installation process is finished. You might need specific drivers for your equipment such SATA (AHCI, RAID) or SCSI.
If you are installing windows on a hard drive that is managed by a raid storage controller card when and how do you install the raid drivers?
You copy the RAID or Non RAID drivers file from the cards driver CD to the disk Read the documentation to find out which folder on the CD contains these files The card drivers must be installed during the Windows installation. you are given an opportunity at the beginning of the Windows installation to provide the drivers on floppy disk or a USB device.
How i install Windows XP if during setup i cant create new particulars and it only shows up with 1 particular 13gb and no hard driveharddrive is 500gbSATA-2when finish says press C-A-D to restart?
XP doesn't seem to be recognizing the sata drive for installation. Check the documentation for your motherboard and install the sata driver when prompted for other SCSI drivers during installation. In addition to the above question,- the computer when restarted will continue to come up with a black screen asking you to restart it, i know that SATA hard drives need a driver for xp is this the problem? if so why can it still copy all the folders onto the computer?
What is the name of the folder that is created when files from an old install are moved during installation?
it is called windows.old
Why it is possible to remove the installation disk to supply the setup program with drivers?
Windows XP takes drivers only from floppy drives (during installation only). Vista can work with basically any drive. Anyway by the time the system asks you to insert drive with drivers there is software loaded in your RAM which allows you to remove the installation disk... And then put it back.
What happens to the existing data on a hard drive during a clean install?
if clean install is performed, then the data in the partition in which fresh installation is being done will be deleted
