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loading SATA HDD controller from a USB Data Traveler

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by ralfska, 2008/09/28.

  1. 2008/09/28
    ralfska

    ralfska Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Hi,

    I have the following problem. My hardwarde seems to be slightly corrupted, because upon attaching a floppy disk or IDE HDD, I get a command "Can't read ESCD" when booting. I had to unplug the above devices and I use only a SATA HDD and a DVD-Rom which both work fine.
    However, my XP installation is quite old now and I wanted to reload the system from scratch. I have copied all the SATA controller files onto my USB stick from a floppy disk that came with the motherboard. The USB drive is been seen during the POST, then the CD XP installation disk starts and I hit F6 to be able to load a SATA controller, but this seems to be ignored, because the installer wants only a floppy disk to be inserted so that it can read the SATA controller.
    What am I doing wrong? Could you help me, please?
    It is possible at all to load the SATA controller from an inserted USB stick? If so, then how?
     
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  2. 2008/09/29
    TonyT

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  4. 2008/09/30
    hawk22

    hawk22 Geek Member

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    I did try very hard, no go, had to go back to the old floppy

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  5. 2008/09/30
    TonyT

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    The install cd cannot read from anything but a floppy, it must be a floppy. Anyway, the error "Can't read ESCD" is usually because the bios does not autodetect hardware changes, thus you must access the bios and reset some things. Exactly which things need to be reset may be discovered at some of those google search results.
     
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