Installing SATA Drivers on HP EliteBook Notebook PCs

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Introduction

Purpose

This white paper provides instructions on how to successfully incorporate SATA drivers into a

Windows XP installation on HP EliteBook Notebook PC models. The following guidelines provide

procedures for adding SATA drivers to RIS (Remote Installation Service) installation points; adding

SATA drivers to installation CDs; building an image and switching to SATA AHCI mode; using

Sysprep with SATA in AHCI or NATIVE mode; and adding SATA drivers using WinPE.

Audience

This white paper is for use by HP personnel and customers.

Benefits of SATA

SATA Native Mode is a storage interface technology that provides up to 150MB/Sec transfer rate for

disk traffic, and provides link power management with Intel® Application Accelerator drivers. Intel

Matrix Storage Manager Driver provides support for the SATA Advanced Host Controller (AHCI)

Interface.

System Requirements and Prerequisites

System requirements

Information regarding minimum hardware requirements for installing XP Professional is available at

www.microsoft.com.

This document applies to all systems using Intel Matrix SATA AHCI Storage controllers.

System prerequisites

You will need the following items before installing SATA drivers:

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2, Certificate of Authenticity and documentation.

• Necessary drivers, especially Intel SATA AHCI Controller Driver.

• Proper OS License for each PC

IMPORTANT:

Make sure you have the latest compatible version of Microsoft Windows XP

drivers and enhancements. In addition, you must have a Microsoft OS

license for each system on which you install Windows XP Professional.

Note:

You can also download HP drivers and utilities, including the most current

available ROM for the platform, from the HP website