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Name: John_klim
Date: October 24, 2007 at 16:35:06 Pacific
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: Intel 2.6 / 2GB
Product: HP dx2300
Comment:

I need to Image a HP dx2300 system with SATA Drive using Ghost 2003. However I can not locat a SATA driver and Also I do not know how to add the drive to a PC dos Boot disk. Is anyone can help?



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Response Number 1
Name: SysLock
Date: October 24, 2007 at 16:45:29 Pacific
Reply:

What is the model and manufactuer of SATA drive?


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Response Number 2
Name: John_klim
Date: October 24, 2007 at 16:57:29 Pacific
Reply:

HD is Western Digital WD800JD


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Response Number 3
Name: OtheHill
Date: October 24, 2007 at 18:33:21 Pacific
Reply:

The brand of the drive isn't important. You need to know what SATA controllers are on the MBoard. Taht is where the SATA drivers come from.


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Response Number 4
Name: SysLock
Date: October 24, 2007 at 18:43:55 Pacific
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Hp didn't have a seperate driver for that system. The Bios is probably configurable to boot the SATA drive. I did see Intel Chipset Support for Windows which might have the SATA driver in the Softpaq. You might need to locate the SATA controller on Intel's website if it isn't in there.


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Response Number 5
Name: SysLock
Date: October 24, 2007 at 18:47:11 Pacific
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I had a brain fart when I asked that earlier.


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Response Number 6
Name: Tubesandwires
Date: October 24, 2007 at 19:41:12 Pacific
Reply:

"HP dx2300" is
HP Compaq dx2300 Microtower PC .

That's the model SERIES, not the actual, specific model.
There are over a hundred models in the series (103?) - the specific model number is on a label on the outside of the case somewhere, and starts with either a G or a D.

However, after I picked one model number and searched for parts for it, I found this model series may use only one mboard, part # 441388-001.
When one searches HP parts using 441388-001 one gets 441388-001 and
Replacement for part 441388-001N
SPS-BD SYS PCA INTEL 946GZ/ICH7 I, and clicking on either seems to produce the same list of specific models you get when you search using dx2300.

So the mboard is either an Intel made mboard that was supplied OEM to HP/Compaq, or it's one not made by Intel that was supplied OEM to HP/Compaq that uses the Intel 946GZ chipset.

There are three Intel made D946GZxx mboards - all of them have the 946 Express chipset with ICH7 and not the RAID version of that - none of them need a floppy with drivers on it to be loaded during Windows Setup - support for ICH7 and it's SATA mode is already built into XP.


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Response Number 7
Name: stevem5000
Date: October 24, 2007 at 21:03:01 Pacific
Reply:

Look in BIOS...see if there is a Hard Drive Configuration...Some BIOS, Lenovo and some Dell's have an option where you can set the drive to another "mode" other than SATA...Lenovo calls in "compatibility mode"...this allows you to boot a SATA drive just as if it was an IDE drive...with no loss of performance...

Good luck


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Response Number 8
Name: Josevergara
Date: October 26, 2007 at 02:18:09 Pacific
Reply:


u use nlite to integrate the controllers of sata in the files of installation of windows xp.
if u dont have floppy driver. u just do it


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