Installing SATA Drivers on HP Notebook PCs - White Paper

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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 Notebook PC models. The following guidelines provide procedures
for adding SATA drivers to RIS 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
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. For a current
list of the latest System IDs, please contact your company’s designated HP Solution Architect.
System prerequisites
You will need the following items before installing SATA drivers:
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional with the latest Service Pack, 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
www.hp.com.
1) On the system you intend to Sysprep, add the first 5 files (a through e, from above)
to the PnP drivers store (example: c:\drivers\sata).