"Dr. Deb" <dgfreeman@mon-cre.net> wrote in message
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>
> Got a question. I would like to reinstall XP so it will take advantage of
> my SATA drives (after all speed was the whole reason I bought them in the
> first place). I would not even be considering this if Wine were a bit
> more
> stable. The only thing I use XP for is to play WoW. I had it working
> under Wine (PCLinuxOS 2008MiniMe) and did a general upgrade. Between the
> update to the system, including Wine and the updates Blizzard made to Wow,
> I cannot get WoW to run under Linux any more. Bummer - much better
> experience than under XP.
>
> When I installed XP, I did not know it would not read SATA, after all
> Windows is the latest and greatest OS ever written. Right? Yeah, right.

XP is *five years old*, try a five year old linux and see how far you get
with any modern stuff.

You need a disk with the sata drivers on it and you load it at the start of
the install just after XP has booted.
If you want sata without loading the driver disk use vista which is only one
year old and has sata support built in.

Of course your MB manufacturer may not do XP drivers as its such an old OS
then you are stuck with vista (which is better than XP).

> Anyhow I did the install on the new box and all went well.
> Got Linux up
> and running afterward (which was easier than the XP install). Then
> noticed
> that I was running my drives under IDE. Changed to SATA and, you know
> what
> happened. Linux ran like a top and XP refused to load.
>
> So, if I reinstall XP, which will wipe the bootloader, into the existing
> partition and then install PCLinux OS into an empty partition, but mount
> the existing Linux partition under the new install. Then I can grab my
> now
> current bootloader file (menu.1st), copy it to the new partition, rerun
> the
> bootloader app and I should be able to boot to my current Linux partition.
> I could then, rerun the bootloader just to tidy things up.
>
> Will that work?

no idea you lost me.

You can install grub from most of the live CDs without having to install
another linux.
I have never done so so I wont try and tell you the command but it should be
in the grub help.

>
> Deb