SATA Drive adaptor card problems?

[Keebler Elf]

I have a Western Digital SATA hard drive that I was using for storage with my previous Windows setup. A while back when I previously installed Windows XP (about 12 months ago), I ran into problems. My motherboard does not support SATA so I had to install an adaptor card. I used the drivers on the disk that came with the card.

The problem was that sometimes when I would install the drivers and reboot, the Windows splash page would proceed agonizyingly slow and would ultimate fail and reboot. In short, I had to reinstall Windows.

I eventually figured out that something was happening whereby I would install the drivers and then if I used Device Manager to automatically update drivers, there would be some kind of conflict and the Windows problem would re-occur. So I just made sure I didn't update drivers for the SATA drive via Device Manager.

Fast forward to today and I'm using a different version of Windows (Home vs. Pro). I want to install the SATA drive and I'll need to install the adaptor card drivers again. I read somewhere that there is a Device Driver rollback option for WinXP. Is this true? If so, is it accessible outside of Windows (same with System Restore) as if the same fuckup happens as last time, I won't be able to get past the Windows splash screen...

 

[samcan]

Not sure if this is what your looking for/asking but here are a
couple of links about rolling back.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/russel_july09.mspx

http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=173446&promo=300111

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...se_when_a_system_will_not_start.mspx?mfr=true

Hope this helps

 

[joebear]

I eventually figured out that something was happening whereby I would install the drivers and then if I used Device Manager to automatically update drivers, there would be some kind of conflict and the Windows problem would re-occur. So I just made sure I didn't update drivers for the SATA drive via Device Manager.

I read somewhere that there is a Device Driver rollback option for WinXP. Is this true?

yes, it does do a rollback assuming when new install did not corrupt the old installation.

If you want to rollback just uninstall the device driver and then reboot. Then install using your old device drivers when prompted for the CD but don't let it search from the internet for updated drivers.

The conflict is usually from the various pci cards you have.

check the manufactors website for the device drivers they should have all the drivers, old and new.

Windows update does not have the latest drivers on it and have seen many times where the manufactors site has the latest drivers.

 

[Keebler Elf]

I got it installed without any problems, as yet (knock on wood). Thanks for the help.