Sorry for making questions about Windows XP, but I have a client that still uses it and he insists not to go towards Seven, 8 or 10.
I read some articles about AHCI drivers to load during installation of Windows XP (F6 drivers) on a SSD drive. I already know about some problems to run SO with IDE Mode (BIOS) and the fact that XP has no AHCI driver natively.
Also, I already (have a way - second link not allowed) to wrap the correct drivers on a installation bundle using WinToFlash tool, that creates an ISO image and put F6 drivers in a way to load them when required, during text mode part of the installation.
I already (have a way - third link not allowed) to install those drivers AFTER the XP installation, updating Primary IDE Channel.
Everything is ready to start to work. But, why don't I do that?
I do not have the right F6 drivers...
I already searched many sites, including vendor ones, looking for AHCI driver to these:
Motherboard Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. - Model H87M-D3H
Processador Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz
No luck.
I'm not sure about AHCI Controller, if Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller, Intel(R) ICH7M/MDH SATA AHCI Controller or other else. How to know that for sure?
I tried some of those and got system hangs... Having to restore system images... It's a hard and long road.
So, I ask if someone would help me with the following:
- How to know for sure about the correct AHCI Controller of my motherboard?
- Where I can find the F6 AHCI drivers?
- Any other advice to put those damn drivers on XP :)
Note 1: I can boot via other partition using Seven on the same machine. And, so, I can make some tests and investigations about the hardware and run diagnose tools to know that.
Note 2: I tried to put some links when I explained about how to wrap ISO bundle, but Superuser didn't allow because of my low reputation. So, there is only one link.