I got a 320 gig SATA WD Caviar drive to install XP Pro on a Core2 Duo machine. I get as far as the last stage or so of the install and got a blue screen 'A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer' If this is the first time you've seen this yada yada yada - then Stop 0x00000024 (0x001902FA, 0xF76A6300, 0xF76A6000, 0x805380B2) I saw a mention somewhere that XP doesn't support SATA. Not sure how that can be if I've been running this machine with auxilliary SATA drives installed on it. Why would it let me get this far in the installation process?

Of course I don't know for sure what the root cause of the problem was to begin with. I decided to try a different drive since I seened to have ongoing issues ever since installing that other IDE drive and the drive was on sale under $50 for 320 gigs. Thanks for all input.

Q: SATA AHCI Support in Windows XP Professional SP3 x86 I'm building a PC for my friend. It will have Windows XP Pro SP3 x86 on one drive and Windows 7 x64 on another. 500Gb HD with NCQ and Win XP Pro SP3. How to enable AHCI: Windows XP Expertester. A Windows XP SP2/SP3 integrated with SATA. Slipstreamed the F6 AHCI driver to the XP w/slipstreamed SP3 and was able to recognize the HDD and install XP. Added: The AHCI F6 driver I Downloaded from Intel. Also Had to Download the Display Adapter from Intel Still need to load audio, ethernet adapter, and the RTL8187B_WLAN_Adapter.

I got a 320 gig SATA WD Caviar drive to install XP Pro on a Core2 Duo machine. I get as far as the last stage or so of the install and got a blue screen 'A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer' If this is the first time you've seen this yada yada yada - then Stop 0x00000024 (0x001902FA, 0xF76A6300, 0xF76A6000, 0x805380B2) I saw a mention somewhere that XP doesn't support SATA. Not sure how that can be if I've been running this machine with auxilliary SATA drives installed on it.

Why would it let me get this far in the installation process? Of course I don't know for sure what the root cause of the problem was to begin with.

I decided to try a different drive since I seened to have ongoing issues ever since installing that other IDE drive and the drive was on sale under $50 for 320 gigs. Thanks for all input.

Click to expand.Yes, it is true. Windows XP doesn't come with any SATA drivers and you must (if you need them) install them in the very beginning of the install by pressing F6 to install RAID, SATA, or any other device driver(s) to work with Windows XP. And this is usually done by having the driver(s) on a floppy disk.

Yes an USB floppy drive will work too. If you are using a recovery disc to install XP and not a MS one, odds are good that it includes the driver that you need. So you don't have to worry about it.

Another thing one can do without the driver on some BIOS is toggle a setting for the drive. It will read and write a tad slower, but you can get by without a driver. Having said all of this, I don't believe this is your problem. As if it was, the install couldn't see the SATA drive in the first place to start the install. Now that STOP 0x24 error is the key to your whole problem. Basically it means your file system is corrupt.

Well here is pretty good advice and it is a good start. And good luck!

Click to expand.Strange. I had XP installed on a machine with two IDE drives, and when I wanted toi upgrade to a bigger one, I had to battle to find one, because they were all selling SATA drives. Eventually I found one, but then other things started to go wrong with the machine, do I bought a new one with two SATA drives. I backed up the system on the old machine, restored it on the new one, and it worked perfectly. So it must have SATA drivers somewhere to work with the SATA drives.

I didn't install a thing, just copied the whole lot. I had XP installed on a machine with two IDE drives, and when I wanted toi upgrade to a bigger one, I had to battle to find one, because they were all selling SATA drives. Eventually I found one, but then other things started to go wrong with the machine, do I bought a new one with two SATA drives.

I backed up the system on the old machine, restored it on the new one, and it worked perfectly. So it must have SATA drivers somewhere to work with the SATA drives. I didn't install a thing, just copied the whole lot. Click to expand.There is a good reason for this. As 'many SATA controllers offer selectable modes of operation: legacy Parallel ATA emulation, standard AHCI mode, or vendor-specific RAID. The No Cry Nap Solution Ebook Download.

Legacy mode is a software backward-compatibility mechanism intended to allow the SATA controller to run in legacy operating systems which are not SATA-aware or where a driver does not exist to make the operating system SATA-aware.' Thus if you are running your SATA controller in legacy mode, you don't need a SATA driver.