Windows XP Professional SP3 All SATA Drivers All LAN W Utorrent
Hercules Montero
My hard drive became corrupted and I have been unable to use the repair tools to fix it and load windows 7 64 bit. This is a studio desktop D540. I ordered a new hard drive so that I can install windows 7 from my installation disk or use my original system recovery disks. I will attempt to pull information off my old hard drive once I have my new hard drive setup so I don't want to reformat it.
Do I need a separate ISO that is not on my windows 7 installation disk nor my system recovery disks? I'm not sure how to get started with this fresh hard drive. None of the other questions seem to address this issue.
Intel RST replaces Intel Matrix Storage Manager. HOWEVER you cannot update to your hearts content from 7 to 8 to 9 to 10 to 11 to 12 to 13 etc. As the drivers and chipsets get newer the older ICH5 6 7 8 9 etc are dropped from support.
Microsoft* .NET Framework 3.0 or newer is required to be installed on the system in order for the Intel Rapid Storage Technology User Interface to install. Note that not all Microsoft* Operating
Systems have .NET 3.0 or newer installed by default
Thank you. This is the most thorough and helpful answer I've received on several forums. I think you're on to something. I've been provided a Windows 7 SP 1 on a flash drive from MSFT and ISO. SP 1 should remove any compatibility issues with advanced format disks.
I load windows through the license acceptance and then custom install. Next screen where you'd normally pick a partition it says "No drives were found. Click load driver to provide a mass storage driver for installation. (It's there, it sees the name, sees it in BIOS, and passes all diagnostic checks in BIOS.) Presumably I need to get a driver installed although the disk should contain the needed drivers. As far as I can tell all the drivers available on DELL are meant to be installed after the operating system. I've tried downloading dell drivers onto an ISO as well as extracting the files onto a flash drive. It always says "No signed drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct drivers and click ok". I'm not sure I'm giving it the drivers in a format it can read. I extracted the 3 dell drivers above onto a flash drive, unpacked them on the flash drive, and it doesn't recognize them when it asks for signed drivers.
The INTEL RST 9.6 F6 Drivers can be put on a USB Flash drive and when AHCI is enabled for Sata operation it will load the drivers and see the disk. If you do not load RST 9.6 or higher it will not "see the drive" and will not install. Advanced format 4k drives started arriving in 2011. At this point ALL NEW Drives are advanced format. If you have an ancient 120 gig , 80 gig drive it won't need the drivers. Most 160 Gig, 320 gig , 500 gig etc are 4k Advanced format Drives.
I don't get as far as you do in the installation process per your screenshot. I am in the "Collecting Information" stage; you can see in the lower left hand corner of screenshot 4. "No drives were found" well before the stage in your screenshot.
It doesn't find the .exe file as you might expect since windows hasn't properly started yet. I hope... I don't have to run a bunch of files from DOS, but I tried that. It said that it is missing a subsystem to support the image type.
It doesn't find any other drivers short of trying to run other exe files from DOS. It needs some other driver before it gets to this stage? Most of the drivers are required to be run from within windows. Or am I really that far out of my depth?
You then have to UNZIP the INTEL drivers onto flash drive to F6 point to them. XP has to use floppy disk. The ZIP files must be UNZIPPED to floppy disk or flash drive etc. Then POINTED TO via LOAD DRIVER.
Dell support was completely useless and didn't even try to help. MSFT tech support tried really hard, but wasn't able to help. Thanks to Speedstep for trying, good info and thorough. But, after 2 weeks of searching finally found this link that allows you to manually setup a partition in DOS. It was simple after that as you might expect.
MSFN forum pages have all the necessary info on the topic. (Software tools as well.)
On one of my PCs, I was using the Terabyte Plus Package by R. Loew for a while for the same purpose but later, for the sake of simplicity, placed an IDE HDD as primary master and booted 98SEtoME from there.
^ I just use DOS from 98SE with FAT32 partitions since it offers native support for it... I have used a single fat32 partitioned 80GB HDD without any problems whatsoever for several years now... the only "problem" is that most programs will report free space as 2GB only, but that is to be expected since they are not fat32-aware...
New information:
I finished installing Win98 on the IDE drive. Next I wanted to use the SATA (formatted with FAT32) to store all the installers for programs I plan to add. When I connected the SATA drive I encountered a screen telling me something about child devices mixing 32-bit drivers and compatibility drivers, this is unsupported, Windows will now use only compatibility drivers for all child devices. When Win98 rebooted the SATA drive was accessible as D:\, however the optical drive will no longer show up within Windows even after the SATA drive is remove. And I don't know how to switch back to 32-bit drivers. If the same occurred when the SATA drive was being used to boot I understand why it would freeze at screen it did.
The closest that can find is ATA/IDE Configuration.
DISABLED: All IDE resources disabled.
LEGACY: Up to 2 IDE chanels enabled for OS requiring legacy IDE operation.
ENHANCED: All SATA and PATA resources enabled.
I have this set to Enhanced. I don't to see a way to configure SATA separately.
For an individual drive connected through SATA I have options for:
Type [Auto] [User]
LBA/Large Mode [Disabled] [Auto]
Block Mode [Disabled] [Auto]
PIO Mode [Disabled] [0] [1] [2] [3] [4]
DMA Mode [Auto] [SWDMA0] [SWDMA1] [SWDMA1] [MWDMA0] [MWDMA1] [MWDMA2] [UDMA0] [UDMA1] [UDMA1] [UDMA3] [UDMA4] [UDMA5]
S.M.A.R.T. [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled]
All of them are set to Auto.
Using Acronis Disk Director 10 I created 1 partition that is hidden with 20GB of unallocated space before it. Windows 98 formatted and installed to the unallocated space. I later plan to delete the hidden partition, make a backup partition at the end of the drive, and resize the main partition to fill the remaining space. Having done this many times before with Windows 98 makes me think there is something special about SATA that is causing me to encounter roadblocks now (see new information above). Currently the partition is only 20GB.
...The closest that can find is ATA/IDE Configuration.
DISABLED: All IDE resources disabled.
LEGACY: Up to 2 IDE chanels enabled for OS requiring legacy IDE operation.
ENHANCED: All SATA and PATA resources enabled....
Give the LEGACY option a shot. The manual for one of my older sata motherboards indicates something like this setting for W98se. It constrains the number of channels but allows it to work. However you may be out of luck without an IDE Mode for the sata setup - that setting is the usually the kicker. Track down a PDF for your motherboard if possible.
Switch IDE configuration to "Legacy", you should get an option to swap in the SATA connections as either your primary or secondary IDE controller instead of one of the PATA channels like below. Set it to one of the last two options.
Technical Background: Intel ICH5 boards predate AHCI, so they normally present on the onboard SATA connectors as a 3rd IDE controller, but at a non-standard hardware address (nevermind that there is official IDE assignments for this setup, just not very supported) . Windows 2000/XP has no problem with this as its IDE driver supports non-standard resource assignments. Windows 98's driver only recongizes IDE devices at the traditional hardware addresses (1F0h/IRQ 14 and 170h/IRQ15). The BIOS legacy setting gives you the option to map in the SATA ports as either the primary or secondary IDE channel and disables the PATA channel normally used. You can't use all three channels in Windows 98 as a result.
It does work in DOS however, since the Int 13h routine in the BIOS supports the drive (so you can boot off of it in "Enhanced" mode). Thats why the Windows 98 install worked fine, but it locked up when starting Windows. Control was passed from Int 13h to Windows' protected mode driver and it chocked.
I thought Legacy would disable SATA entirely. What it does is give me another menu item.
Legacy IDE Channels [PATA Pri only] [PATA sec only] [PATA Pri and Sec] [SATA P0/P1 only] [SATA P0/P1, PATA Sec] [SATA P0/P1, PATA Pri]
I'm continuing with SATA P0/P1, PATA Sec. Hopefully this will also take the IDE setting into consideration.
With that option, the SATA connectors become the primary IDE controller, the primary PATA channel on the motherboard will be disabled. Your drives on the secondary PATA channel will continue to work as usual.
I don't want to hijack this thread but since we're on a 'W98se on modern PC' kick - how about pci-e? Getting a pci-e video card running has been the big stumbling block for me: 7800GTX/256mb pci-e in my case. Is your board AGP or pci-e [or both]?
I wouldn't call the Intel D875PBZ modern. It's a Socket 478, Pentium 4. The two SATA connectors on it were a surprise. It's AGP with 5 PCI slots. Still quite an improvement from the board I was using before it.
I'm dueling it out with a similar pci-e setup right now. Yes the motherboard and other hardware are 10-15 years old, but even that's but quite a bit past W98's "serve by" date... On the bright side XP runs absolutely great on this rig so if I don't succeed in my quest for a W98se "monster" I'll have a pretty neat soon-to-be retro XP rig.
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