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!