SATA drivers

[tdark]

I have a four year old Gateway laptop M6335 that had windows vista loaded. The hard drive went bad and I want to install XP pro sp2 on it. I bought the XP a few years ago and never opened the box. I know the SATA drivers need to be installed but I am not sure the best way to do this. I do not have any computer with floppy drives. I found what I think will work at gateways site
http://support.gateway.com/us/en/pro...umber=2906079R
How to get those files to a cd and which file of all them do I need. I know about when I load to hit the F6 key but not sure what I do after that. Thanks

[Midknyte]

Did you check the bios for an IDE mode? That should get you around the drivers.

XP pro sp2

You should be installing SP3 by now. SP2 is no longer supported by MS.

If you don't have an external floppy, then you could slipstream the drivers with nlite. And you can add SP3 if you don't have an SP3 disc.
http://www.nliteos.com/

[tdark]

Nothing in the BIOS about IDE mode. I only can install what CD I have. I stated I bought it a few years ago. I sure am not going to throw it away.
slipstream the drivers with nlite
Can you tell me the steps to do this? I had already went to that site but got lost on what to do. Thanks for the info and any tips on exactly how to do this is appreciated. Tom

[Midknyte]

Hmm. Most laptops have an IDE option or a "compatibility" mode for the SATA controllers.

Did you look at the guide? I don't think I can explain it better than that.
http://www.nliteos.com/guide/

The drivers on your link are for Vista, not XP. You'd need to locate XP drivers first.

Why don't you want to put Vista back on?

[tdark]

I do not like Vista. I solved the problem, I installed windows 7 pro and it installed like a dream. All drivers found. Windows 7 rocks. XP is being phased out anyway so I went with the new. Thanks for the help. Tom