Tuesday, May 10, 2016

How to add raid drivers in windows xp to Install windows xp f6 without floppy

I have been struggling to install a windows xp on a raid array.
In most cases windows does not have included drivers for ahci/raid controller will not detect no storage device and you will get a blue screen with stop code : 0x0000007B 

To solve this problem you can press F6 when the install starts but xp only accepts floppy disks that are absolute. You could buy one if you want, and better get some new floppy disks as well, as I once tried for one hour to write some drivers on some old floppy disks I had lying around.

The other way to do it is like this :
1. Extract an xp home or professional 32 or 64 whatever you need to install to a folder.
2. Download nLite and install it

    - open nLite and select the folder where you extracted the windows image and press next
    - on the next screen with preset just press next without doing nothing
    - on the next screen select/activate Drivers and Bootable ISO and press next
    - on next screen press the Insert button and select multiple driver folder - and when you are provided with a list of drivers select them all - if you have more folders or you are not sure witch are the good ones just select again Insert - multiple driver and add more
- press next to start the process and then Make ISO button

Write the image to a cd and you not get the blue screen and be provided with the install menu.