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I am trying to follow the Howto by Chungy, which tells me that I need to d/l drivers from Intel. On the Intel page to which he gives a link, I see two drivers -- one for a floppy drive and another for Matrix Storage; I think that means Raid, which I do not have. But the Howto is about installation with SATA HD, and there is nothing else in the Intel page relevant to SATA. Am I missing something? Or do I really need the Matrix Storage package?

I think you need the matrix package. Try it and see.

You need the floppy. There is a direct link to Softpedia too, as the latest version doesn't work with the SATA controller (ICH8M). Intel stops supporting older chips in newer versions, so you have to make sure you pick a supported version. The floppy image will have the driver for both the RAID and AHCI configuration.

Sasquatch wrote:You need the floppy. There is a direct link to Softpedia too, as the latest version doesn't work with the SATA controller (ICH8M). Intel stops supporting older chips in newer versions, so you have to make sure you pick a supported version. The floppy image will have the driver for both the RAID and AHCI configuration.

Is it true that I would not need supplementary drivers if I were guesting Visa instead? And that the installation of the VM would be more self-contained and threfore more straightforward?

The main thing to remember is that any OS will boot when IDE is selected for the VM, when running you can install sata drivers and such, shutdown, enable sata en startup, if it doesn't work you simply go back to IDE and start again.
For example read this one: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... 1012#47983

hanasi wrote:

Sasquatch wrote:You need the floppy. There is a direct link to Softpedia too, as the latest version doesn't work with the SATA controller (ICH8M). Intel stops supporting older chips in newer versions, so you have to make sure you pick a supported version. The floppy image will have the driver for both the RAID and AHCI configuration.

Is it true that I would not need supplementary drivers if I were guesting Visa instead? And that the installation of the VM would be more self-contained and threfore more straightforward?

Vista has the driver for it. You only need additional drivers for 2003, XP and 2000 (if 2000 even works with SATA controllers). You load the floppy image before booting the VM, or integrate the driver in the XP install files, either manually or with a tool like nLite.

This is if you want to use SATA from the start. Else, do what Vbox4me2 suggested.

Sasquatch wrote:(if 2000 even works with SATA controllers).

It does, in the same manner that XP and 2003 can work with SATA; I rewrote the guide at one point to incorporate Windows 2000-specific instructions. in fact, there's even SATA drivers for NT 3.51 and 4.0 as well, although I never had any luck getting those to work with VirtualBox...

Sasquatch wrote:

hanasi wrote:

Sasquatch wrote:You need the floppy. There is a direct link to Softpedia too, as the latest version doesn't work with the SATA controller (ICH8M). Intel stops supporting older chips in newer versions, so you have to make sure you pick a supported version. The floppy image will have the driver for both the RAID and AHCI configuration.

Is it true that I would not need supplementary drivers if I were guesting Visa instead? And that the installation of the VM would be more self-contained and threfore more straightforward?

Vista has the driver for it. You only need additional drivers for 2003, XP and 2000 (if 2000 even works with SATA controllers). You load the floppy image before booting the VM, or integrate the driver in the XP install files, either manually or with a tool like nLite.

That's what I thought. Rather than trying to match the XP that I have with this or that driver, it looks like the way to go would be to find a Vista. I need to use WINcrap so seldom, and for so little, that experimentation is not really worth the effort.

hanasi wrote:That's what I thought. Rather than trying to match the XP that I have with this or that driver, it looks like the way to go would be to find a Vista. I need to use WINcrap so seldom, and for so little, that experimentation is not really worth the effort.

Then why are you trying to use SATA anyway? It's a VB option, it doesn't depend on your Host if you have SATA or not. I have SATA on my PC and laptop too, and can still install XP on IDE without issues.

Here's what I found to work:

Install XP as usual (with the default IDE setting in Vbox)
Downloaded iata70_enu.exe or iata82_enu.exe from Intel within the XP guest.
Installed the SATA drivers by double-clicking
Shutdown/logout of the XP guest (not suspend or save state)
Switched the HD to SATA
Started the XP guest VM

Hope this is useful.

jkarcz wrote:Here's what I found to work:

Install XP as usual (with the default IDE setting in Vbox)
Downloaded iata70_enu.exe or iata82_enu.exe from Intel within the XP guest.
Installed the SATA drivers by double-clicking
Shutdown/logout of the XP guest (not suspend or save state)
Switched the HD to SATA
Started the XP guest VM

Hope this is useful.

Already stated by vbox4me2 here: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... 594#p77594 which is only a few posts up... *sign*

Is there a similar process available for a XP64 guest to use SATA? If so, what drivers would be used and where could I get them?