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The difficulty for the Dell is that if you go to Velocity Micro's eminently usable Z40 configurator, you can match the XPS 8300's specs for $1,829. Velocity Micro will also overclock the CPU, which gives the Z40's Core i5 chip a raw clock speed advantage, but the Dell's Core i7 chip still offers advantages due to the HyperThreading technology that effectively doubles the Core i7's four processing threads. We would credit the Dell's graphics card as well, but Velocity Micro is using an overclocked version of the GeForce GTX Ti card, which gives it an edge over the Dell's typically faster Radeon HD 5870.

Compared with the Velocity Micro system above, Dell has advantages in its system memory, its hard-drive capacity, and its Blu-ray burning capabilities. We're more or less satisfied with the relative value offered by the XPS 8300. We're also glad to see Dell adopt USB 3.0 ports on this system, by way of a single port on the front panel and another around the back. Dell hasn't moved to the convenient front-access hard-drive bays that we've seen from Acer, Gateway, and many boutique vendors, but the gadget tray on the top of the system is convenient, as are the USB 2.0 and audio ports dotting the rear edge of the tray. Dell has used this case for the last year or two, and the white, black, and red design offers a welcome alternative to the sea of all-black desktops out there. If you don't have a floppy drive, then try this link to slipstream the SATA drivers into your XP installation CD: (I haven't done this myself, so I can't vouch for the link - but they've done good work AFAIK).Purchasing confusion aside, we like this system well enough, even for $1,615. Press F6 and let Windows look for the SATA drivers on your floppy drive (XP requires a floppy drive for this).

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Then, I'd suggest using this guide to perform a repair install of Windows XP: Įarly on in the repair process you should see a notice at the bottom of the screen to "Press F6 to install RAID/SCSI drivers" or something similar. You can usually get the SATA drivers from the website of the manufacturer of your motherboard - although this may require some research if your Dell didn't come with SATA drives (you'd have to figure out who produced the SATA controller for Dell and get the drivers from them) It's the drivers for the SATA controller on the motherboard that need installing, not drivers for the drive itself. So what someone needs to tell me now is:ġ) Where do I get the SATA drivers for Windows XP?Ģ) Is there a way to load them into a disk that already has Windows installed, rather than during install?Įdited by shawnvw, 12 January 2008 - 11:54 PM. In any case, what I have now is a drive that already has it. I just read that you have to manually install SATA drivers when installing Windows - I don't know why they say that when I first ran the regular install on a SATA drive, it worked fine.

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I found the SATA drive's manual which says "If you have an existing installation of Windows XP, you must install a Windows driver for the SATA interface before connection the drive." Here's a link that will help explain some of the glitches that you may encounter:

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You'll have to attempt a repair install of XP in order to add the SATA drivers and to update the system configuration information (since it changes with each significant hardware change). And that's just the beginning of your issues! You're trying to load XP from a copy of an IDE disk (so it loads the IDE drivers) - but you're using a SATA drive and the drivers aren't loaded for it. Is there anything I can do to fix this?Įdited by shawnvw, 12 January 2008 - 04:45 PM.

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I have the original Windows installation CD, plus the "Ultimate Boot CD for Windows" which has a lot of diagnostics and tools. I'm guessing that the driver for the old drive - an IDE - aren't compatible with those on the new drive, a SATA. The drive was working fine, so I doubt its a hardware failure. I also tried the Recovery Console, but the screen just stays blank.

Could not read from the selected boot disk.

"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. After the Dell logo appears, it gives me the choice of starting Windows or the Recovery Console. Now it won't let me boot to the new hard drive. (That's a backup-and-restore application.) I installed my new hard drive in my Dell Dimension 8300, and copied all the data from the old one to the new using DriveImage XML.