Desktops forum: Need SATA driver for Dell e520

What are you attempting to do? Add a secondary HD? Install Windows to a new SATA HD? Other?

Does the SATA HD appear in BIOS?

Did you download the Driver or the Application? From the E520 driver page:

Serial ATA (SATA) - Driver.....................Intel Matrix Storage Manager
Serial ATA (SATA) - Application............Intel Matrix Storage Manager

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&ServiceTag=&SystemID=DIM_PNT_P4_E520&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=

If your Dell shipped with a SATA HD already installed, the driver should already be present on the Dell XP Reinstall CD. If this is the case, you shouldn't need to feed the SATA driver to the XP installation program.

If you are attempting to install XP and you really do need to add the SATA driver using the F6 method, then you do have an option with the driver package file you downloaded. The file you downloaded should be named something like "R130118.EXE." You need to double-click on that file to extract its contents to a folder of your choosing.

When the extraction is finished, go to that folder and open the "readme.txt" file. Scroll down to section "5.3 Pre-Installation Using the F6 Method." Follow the remainder of the directions in that section to get the necessary files onto a floppy and use them during the XP installation.

I downloaded the file. It's a self-extracting executable that has driver and associated files in it. One must run the EXE file to extract those files before attempting to feed them to the Windows XP installation program.

...monkeysateme has the problem to be worked out--I was just trying to help. I hope he/she works it out and has success, too.

-linkit

Was buy an USB floppy drive. It was 10 bucks so my question to you is: Is this worth doing?