sata driver need help pleeeese

sandy

Hi guys
another small prob with my new samsung SP1614c hard drive

my motherboard is a M.S.I K8T800 with a VT8237 sata raid controller

i am trying to install windows xp on this hard drive.

managed to download the drivers for this (so much crap comes with it )

put all that i thought i needed onto floppy but then comes up with message cannot find txtsetup.oem which is strange as on the floppy it's there.

putting the whle driver disc on i have four files
1...PIDE
which includes winxp and that has viapdsk.cat viapdsk.sys viapide.inf included
2..RAID
which includes winxp and that has viamraid.cat viamraid.sys viamraid.inf included
3...TXTSETUP.oem
4..VIAmakedisk.txt

3and 4 four have no subfolders they are on their own

can anybody shed any lifgt or explain in plain english how to get xp on the hard drive
thanks to anyone who can help

Spinner

sandy wrote:

Hi guys
another small prob with my new samsung SP1614c hard drive

my motherboard is a M.S.I K8T800 with a VT8237 sata raid controller

i am trying to install windows xp on this hard drive.

managed to download the drivers for this (so much crap comes with it )

put all that i thought i needed onto floppy but then comes up with message cannot find txtsetup.oem which is strange as on the floppy it's there.

putting the whle driver disc on i have four files
1...PIDE
which includes winxp and that has viapdsk.cat viapdsk.sys viapide.inf included
2..RAID
which includes winxp and that has viamraid.cat viamraid.sys viamraid.inf included
3...TXTSETUP.oem
4..VIAmakedisk.txt

3and 4 four have no subfolders they are on their own

can anybody shed any lifgt or explain in plain english how to get xp on the hard drive
thanks to anyone who can help

That txtsetup.oem error is quite common and is usually down to a duff read on the floppy disk. Make sure you're not booting with the floppy driver disk in the drive, and put the drivers on a couple of floppy disks, just in case Windows XP setup is having trouble reading any one particular floppy because it's not 100% or something.

Also, when and if it throws that txtsetup.oem error, try just taking out and putting back in the floppy disk and retry'ing.

With regard to the drivers themselves, make sure they are in fact the correct drivers, and when you download the driver package, make sure you extract all the contents directly to a freshly formatted floppy disk.

Let us know how you get on.

Regards

Spinner