dennis@home wrote:

>

>
> 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).
>

Dennis, we all have our own opinions of XP and Vista, I am glad yours is a
high on Vista as it appears to be.

As for me and my house, it just isn't worth the expense of buying an OS from
Microsoft since the only use I have found for it is playing WoW and that is
not a necessity.

Deb