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January 24, 2011 by Rosco 30 Comments

Find Your Windows XP SATA Drivers

SATA HDD ConnectionUnderstanding SATA and finding the correct drivers

So what’s SATA about?

You used to be able to install Windows XP just fine on your previous computers without an SATA driver – right?

Correct, that’s because your older PC or laptop was using a previous standard, called IDE.

I won’t go into great detail here about SATA, IDE, etc here but will just give you enough to understand what they are and why you need a driver for the new SATA.

The rest you can read up on our old friend Wikipedia!

In all cases, your hard drive is connected physically to your computer’s motherboard via a cable.

Previously, this interface was known as an IDE interface and used a wide grey cable known as a ribbon cable.

Nowadays, there is a new interface which is cheaper, faster and tidier known as SATA.

Windows XP, was developed way before SATA and that is why you need a special driver if you want to install Windows XP on a newer PC using the newer SATA interface.

I’ve previously written a number of articles related to this –

  • If Windows XP Setup can’t find your SATA drive you may get the error such as Setup did not find any hard disks...
  • If you already have your drivers and need to know how to make a boot CD then see – Custom Windows XP Disc to include your SATA drivers.
  • There are many other articles too – just search for SATA using the search box at the top of this page.

Finding your SATA drivers

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The following sections show you how to:

  • Find out what Chipset Manufacturer you have
  • Downloading the appropriate driver
  • Some Examples from reader requests

The Chipset Is Key!

When looking for drivers for my readers I’ve found quite a few SATA drivers and made them available at the links below.

In order to know which one you need you first need to determine your chipset.

Regardless of the manufacturer of your computer, your system’s chipset will be manufactured typically by one of the major companies such as:

  • Intel
  • Nvidia
  • AMD
  • VIA
  • SIS
  • Broadcom

but most likely it’s Intel or AMD.

There are a few different options for determining your PC/laptop’s chipset.

  • Your PC or Laptop Manufacturer’s Website– on the support section of your PC/laptop manufacturers website you need to look for Product Information, Product Specifications, System or Technical Specifications.  I’ve listed a few of the major ones below.
    • For IBM/Lenovo – go to the Product Information section of their Support site and locate your exact model using the drop down fields.  Typically, the latest Lenovo/IBM’s are using Intel.
    • For HP/Compaq – enter your product description and model on their support page and then browse to the Product Information > Motherboard Specifications section for your model.  Recent HP/Compaq models are using a mixture of Intel, AMD and Nvidia.
    • For Dell – Go to Support > Downloads > Enter Model manually > Choose Windows 7 as the Operating System and browse to Chipset.  It will tell you the chipset manufacturer and model on the file download page.  Dell are using Intel mostly.
  • Windows Device Manager
    • If you can’t find out the chipset info from your manufacturers website then you can find out from within Windows, provided you can get into Windows!
    • If you can access Windows, right click My Computer > click Properties > Device Manager
    • Expand System Devices and locate the Chipset manufacturer and model
  • Windows System Information Tool
    • Another alternative is to use the System Information tool
    • Click Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Information
    • Locate your Chipset manufacturer in the System Summary.
    • If you can’t see it, try clicking Hardware Resources followed by I/O and scroll.  You should see the Chipset or SATA controller listed at the bottom.

Downloading The Drivers

Now that you know your chipset manufacturer, download the appropriate drivers.

I’ve made several drivers available for download but it is by no means all of them.

If you cannot find the correct driver on this site then you will need to find it on either:

  • your PC manufacturer’s website (some links above)
  • motherboard manufacturer’s website
  • your chipset manufacturers website (links provided below)

Chipset Manufacturers

  • Intel
    • Intel 82801XXX/631XXXX Chipset SATA Driver Package
    • Intel SATA Driver Packages for Desktop/Workstation/Server/Mobile Express, 5 Series, ICHxxx, ESB2
    • Intel’s Official Driver Download Site
  • NVIDIA nForce
    • nForce is NVIDIA’s range of motherboard chipsets.
    • NVIDIA’s driver download site is quite good and easy to locate the SATA drivers.  Have a look here.
  • AMD/ATI
    • AMD’s driver download site is incredibly confusing if you’re looking for anything other than the video drivers so I’ve found driver downloads for their chipsets in other places.  Usually the major motherboard and PC manufacturers will have drivers available for download.
    • AMD/ATI 7 (Seven) Series SATA Drivers for Windows XP Setup
    • AMD/ATI 8 (Eight) Series SATA Drivers for Windows XP Setup
  • SIS – Primarily the SIS964.  Download from their support page here
  • VIA – VIA Driver Download Site
Where did you find your driver?  Please take the time to let others know how and where you found your SATA drivers.  Use the discussion area below.

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Filed Under: Newsletter, Solutions, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows-Zone Tagged With: drivers, sata, Solutions, Windows, windows xp, windows-startup-troubles, xp

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Comments

  1. hemant says

    August 4, 2011 at 19:04

    hi i have sony vaio VGN-NW13GH laptop i want a sata driver for xp .can you help me, plz

    Reply
  2. shahid solanki says

    October 4, 2011 at 05:11

    I have the same issue, but could not find the sata driver,
    My motherboard is : Intel 945GCCR
    please tell me from where i download the required driver, share any link

    Reply
    • Rosco says

      October 7, 2011 at 04:49

      Hi Shadid…

      Here is your driver: https://bit.ly/oxZMhj

      This package contains the SATA driver for all 945, 946, 955, 975 Chipset-Based Intel® Desktop Boards.

      Extract the zip file…SATA drivers are located in the ‘All’ folder.

      R.

      Reply
  3. rudi says

    October 24, 2011 at 18:30

    Hi Rosco,
    I have HP mini note 110-3557TU and failed to install XP SP2 on it. There was an error screen message that might suggest incompatibility with sata driver. Could u help me how 2 find out what Sata driver I need? I have checked HP website but found no motherboard information for this netbook. Thanks 4 ur help.

    R

    Reply
  4. Jr Lorica says

    November 6, 2011 at 06:21

    hi,
    my motherboard: Intel-ATI 775Twins-HDTV.
    please help me.TIA

    Reply
  5. trevor says

    November 18, 2011 at 17:38

    im haveing trouble finding my driver i have a nforce2 with a soltek motherboard

    Reply
  6. Kondwani says

    November 23, 2011 at 00:32

    Hi I’m having trouble finding the SATA drivers for HP-G62 455TX.
    Intel Core i3
    Chipset: Intel HM55

    Reply
  7. funzy says

    December 20, 2011 at 08:27

    hi can u find drivers for me please?? my motherboard is ASRock K7NF2…tnx

    Reply
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  10. Mike says

    February 4, 2012 at 08:23

    Great info, Thank you

    Reply
  11. James says

    March 12, 2012 at 00:52

    I have the HP Pavilion dv2915nr. I can’t seem to find the appropriate drivers. Can you help me out?

    Reply
  12. hard drive recovery says

    May 4, 2012 at 04:43

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  13. chris says

    September 26, 2012 at 20:38

    I have a toshiba satellite m55-s325

    It has a Intel Pentium M processor 1.73GHz, Mobile Intel 915GM/GMS, 910GML Express Chipset Family.

    I can’t seem to locate the drivers, can you help?

    Reply
  14. author says

    September 29, 2012 at 21:49

    comment

    Reply
  15. Ionut says

    August 7, 2013 at 10:14

    hei,can you find the sata for amilo li 2727 ,pls ?

    Reply
  16. planesdean says

    October 4, 2013 at 13:46

    i have a dell inspiron 600m with a intel Mobile Chipset, v.5.00.1012, A06 chipset where can i find drivers?!

    Reply
  17. geronimo says

    October 23, 2013 at 05:35

    Hi, I’ve been struggling with finding the right drivers for the ‘hard disk drives not found’ problem during windows xp installation. Would you help me please? My laptop is HP Pavilion dv2530ea. At the moment it has windows vista home premium but I want to install windows xp professional on it. Thank you in advance.

    Reply
  18. Rahul Deshwal says

    October 28, 2015 at 23:22

    My motherboard manufacturer Hewlett-packard how to find Sata drivers

    Reply
  19. Rahul Deshwal says

    October 28, 2015 at 23:23

    my motherboard manufacturer Hewlett-packard how to find sata drivers pls send me link

    Reply
  20. sami says

    February 8, 2016 at 23:35

    i have successfully done.
    Thanks for all.

    Reply
  21. Chris C. says

    October 24, 2016 at 19:22

    I think I got the right drivers, I went to AMD website for my HP 500-c60 desktop because it has an AMD A6-5200 Processor, found some chipset APU drivers for XP and also RAID Drivers for XP. Hope that’s all I need… Guess I will find out soon, eh? Lol… 😛

    Reply
  22. url says

    December 2, 2016 at 16:49

    El destino del genio es ser un incomprendido, pero no todo incomprendido es unn genio (W.

    Emerson)

    Reply
  23. earblock says

    December 13, 2016 at 04:02

    hi friend, nice guide :)…
    I run in to a problem tho…

    In the point of the windows xp installation when it says:

    “Setup will complete in approximately: 37 minutes
    “Installing devices”
    & badaboom!

    BSO > STOP: (0x000000F4 (0x0000000000000003, 0xFFFFFADFCE63AC20, 0xFFFFFADFCE63AE88, 0xFFFFF800013C1FE0)

    – hardware notes:
    laptop Asus a53s,(Intel HM65)

    – software notes:
    windows xp 64

    thx in advance & best regards.

    Reply
  24. retastear guitarra says

    December 22, 2016 at 22:20

     He encontrado video-game mas sobresalientes aunque
    igualmente tambien peores

    Reply
  25. Lukas says

    February 1, 2017 at 14:34

    I have a amd 990x chipset I cannot find a driver compatible with my version.

    Reply
  26. KerZ says

    February 10, 2017 at 11:14

    Ummmm, I was not able to get my computers motherboard, I only got this, Intel® G31 (ICH7) Express Chipset, and that it is an Optiplex 360.

    Reply
  27. Mohammed Emranul Amin says

    October 16, 2017 at 04:14

    Hi my computer model HP PRODESK 400 G3 MT I want to installed Xp SP2 32 I need sata drive, please help me.

    Reply

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