1 Reply by bigjohn

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Oh, I know that JTdoom - and I appreciate your patience with me.
The driver is NOT part of the system - when the SATAII is in IDE mode Windows loads a "standard IDE controller" driver.

So the trick is to clone from your IDE drive to the SATA II drive (in IDE mode).  Then, boot the new disk (SATA II disk in IDE mode), and open control panel.  In control panel choose to update that standard IDE driver, browse to the SATA II driver downloaded from ASROCK website (not sure if there is a newer one, but this is the one that I used ultimately). 

I actually let windows search that directory.  Be careful because you have to MANUALLY choose the JAHCI driver - windows will default to think the JRAID is the right driver (and from reading these threads, I know THAT would be bad!).

When you reboot the system, hit F2 to enter bios, and switch the SATA II controller from IDE mode to SATAII mode.  Save and Exit.  The system will boot windows now on your SATA II drive.  May require a second reboot here.  Now you're done.

So, this is not the 'driver pack' purpose, but I write this up to help others who may have found this place for the same reasons that I did.

John

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2 Reply by bigjohn

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Never Mind.

I just installed it from control panel, and it worked -- so far so good, anyway...

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3 Reply by bigjohn

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Right.  The problem here is getting the OS to recognize and boot from the SATA.  I have to get the driver INTO the existing win2k registry / inf files somehow... and that is what brought me here.  I have exactly the motherboard listed in the link that I included in my first post.  Now, in that link - marked SOLVED, these fine people were able to slipstream the drivers and get the correct information into the registry for a clean installation:

Hello, i think you should try to manually write that in txtsetup.sif:

PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2360="jahci"
PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2360&SUBSYS_03601849&REV_00="jahci"
PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2360&CC_0104="jraid"
PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2361&CC_0104="jraid"
PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2363&CC_0104="jraid"
PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2365&CC_0104="jraid"
PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2366&CC_0104="jraid"
PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2360&CC_0106="jraid"
PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2361&CC_0106="jraid"
PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2363&CC_0106="jraid"
PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2365&CC_0106="jraid"
PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2366&CC_0106="jraid"

Maybe the line for this motherboard could be:

PCI\VEN_197B&DEV_2360&SUBSYS_03601849="jahci"

i will try in the next hours

So - they made it work, I just need to insert these - into a running installation - instead of a new install...

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4 Reply by bigjohn

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JTdoom - any hellp?  I know there is a good 6 hour time difference here...  Thank you for listening!

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5 Reply by bigjohn

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That tutorial is great.
I already used Nlite many times.  I used it to get a bootable CD that would recognize my SATA also.
So as I see it - my motherboard is exactly as referenced in the other thread I linked - I would use Nlite to make my SP4 disk, and DPbase to put the SATA2 drivers into that.  When done, I could run a repair installation on my Win2k, thus putting the drivers in?

I would really prefer to use the other method though - putting the drivers into the registry and INF file, but that process you wrote in the other linked thread is not real clear to me.

John

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6 Reply by bigjohn

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Thanks   I'll have a look at those articles.  Yes, I can use Ghost or Acronis to clone - in fact I've done it before.  Don't need to change much in those cases because the drive letters won't change if I take the orignial disk out before booting to the new one.  I've done this many times IDE to IDE.  THe problem here is to get the SATA2 driver into the system while in IDE mode, then boot to SATA2 mode!

THanks again.

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7 Reply by bigjohn

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jtdoom wrote:

Hi BJ

do I know you from VDr?

I don't think so.  My family name is Dutch - grand mother said we're frieslanders - but I'm in USA / Atlanta.  What's VDr?

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8 Reply by bigjohn

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Thank you for your patience with me.  I'm not a newbie at all this, but your driver pack is very new to me.

I don't see how you would slipstream into an existing installation - you are looking for a source.  Also, when I tried that last night with my win2k install disk, it did not seem to find the "mass storage" file that I downloaded, even though they were in the same directory - the check boxes were all grey.

So - can I install it by choosing driver-update in device manager and drilling down to the directory?

Remember - this is to ADD the device to an existing WIN2k Install.

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9 Reply by bigjohn

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But I've not installed the driver yet! I need to get it installed in the first place...
To an existing WIn2k on a SATA II drive that has been running as "IDE" mode from the bios.

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10 Reply by bigjohn

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Ok great!  I will look at those files - what should I be looking for?  I mean, to add the jahci.sys into the registry and such to make it load that driver first?

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11 Reply by bigjohn

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The installation of win2k is "mature" -it has been my operating system for several years.  Where do I find this file to edit?  And what do I look for?  Is this something I can find / edit in the Registry?

Thank you for replying!

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12 Topic by bigjohn

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Hi all
referring to this thread, marked SOLVED

http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=1228

How to install the SATA II driver to an existing Win2k installation so that I can clone the disk to a sata2 drive to use as my boot volume?

Please help!

John

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