Hmmm.... "floppy"? What's a floppy? Maybe you meant "CD"?

*TimDaniels*

"peter" wrote:
> 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." wrote:
>> 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!
>>
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