SATA disk for virtual box

[PaddyTM]

Morning,

not sure if I should be asking here or in the windows threads, but I'm looking for the SATA disk drivers for XP.

Need to switch a virtual XP machine to SATA rather than IDE, and while I find a lot on google, most of the links are dead.

Thanks.

 

[Dimpie (COMPUTEK)]

http://driverpacks.net/driverpacks/windows/xp/x86/mass-storage/10.06

 

[The_Unbeliever]

May I ask why you want to switch over to SATA instead of IDE?

 

[PaddyTM]

May I ask why you want to switch over to SATA instead of IDE?

From what I've read, it's one way of speeding up performance of the XP virtual machine; not sure, so I thought I'd give it a try, but quite a few sites (including the VBox forums seem to agree).

Oh, and thanks COMPUTEK, feel a bit silly you found in 7 minutes what I couldn't find in ages.

 

[PsyWulf]

Hehe google saves the day

Well from what i've read on the subject of performance for Virtual Drives,using IDE as the primary and then SCSI for secondary VM drives provides best performance/effort

 

[Dimpie (COMPUTEK)]

Oh, and thanks COMPUTEK, feel a bit silly you found in 7 minutes what I couldn't find in ages.

Been using those "driverpacks" for years - integrated into my XP SP3 Source CD .... they work great .... although I have switched to Win7 since it's release, which is a total different ballgame when it comes to integration