Yes to be on the safe side you will need to place your MoBo SATA drivers on
a floppy and during the installation process let XP find and install..F6
need to be pushed for this to happen.
peter
"Mark G." <askmefirst@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> In the past with my hardware upgrades I have had a combination of IDE and
> SATA hard drives. Seems everytime I decide to do a fresh install of XP, I
> would run into an issue with trying to set a SATA drive as the first drive
> or the drive I in install windows on. With my new hardware, all I will be
> running is SATA drives, no more IDE's with the exception of plugging one
> in to retrieve some data after the initial reinstall. So with the newer
> motherboards and where XP is concerned, is this an issue with this new
> technology? What I mean is, do you still have to go through the route of
> providing the SIL drivers when you get to that point in the install? Just
> curious since it has been a couple of years since I have had a new
> motherboard and I do not recall if this was a limitation of windows or of
> the hardware itself. Thanks much for any input!
>