"Dr. Deb" <dgfreeman@mon-cre.net> wrote in message
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> 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
>

So reinstall xp and boot a live cd and reinstall grub
or setup windows to dual boot linux
(http://highlandsun.com/hyc/linuxboot.html is one way).
You still need the sata drivers to make xp run anywhere near as fast as
linux.