Serial ATA and booting in command prompt

Post by **Eraser** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:44 am

Does anyone know if there's any SATA drivers for an nForce2 mobo (Asus A7N8X) I can load up through the WinXP command prompt?
Problem is that I have a failing harddrive which causes a blue screen when I load up WinXP. I can boot safely into the command prompt using a WinXP installation CD. This is no surprise, since it's a SATA drive and no SATA drivers are loaded.

So now I'm wondering how I should load Serial ATA drivers. Should I download (and are there) DOS drivers for SATA? I'm curious if there's even a tiny chance that I could access the drive through the command prompt.

Post by **Underpants?** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:36 pm

f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 f6 during CD load. RTFM, you silly bitch.

Post by **Eraser** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:09 am

yes but that only installs SATA drivers for WinXP no? Does it actually load them in to boot in command prompt as well?

Post by **Tormentius** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:26 pm

You probably aren't going to be able to load a driver from the command prompt. The one potential solution would be to find an EXE installer that recognizes the -s (silent) switch. Failing that, you'll have to reinstall and do what Underpants suggested.

Post by **Underpants?** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:15 pm

man, I thought once you loaded the drivers, you could surely chkdisk (almost said fsck, WEIRD!) c:

Post by **Bdw3** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:13 am

You could try using a Linux Live CD .

I assume you're just tring to recover your stuff.