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!

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
news:uBw5Eap9HHA.4200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> 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!
>

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
news:uBw5Eap9HHA.4200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> 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!
>

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
news:uBw5Eap9HHA.4200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> 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!
>

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
news:uBw5Eap9HHA.4200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> 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!
>

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!
>>
>

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!
>>
>

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!
>>
>

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!
>>
>

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

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the F6 custom driver option *still* to
this day only look for floppies?

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

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the F6 custom driver option *still* to
this day only look for floppies?

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

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the F6 custom driver option *still* to
this day only look for floppies?

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

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the F6 custom driver option *still* to
this day only look for floppies?

yes it does.....XP will only search the floppy drive during the
installation.
peter
"Homer J. Simpson" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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>> Hmmm.... "floppy"? What's a floppy? Maybe you meant "CD"?
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the F6 custom driver option *still*
> to this day only look for floppies?
>
>

yes it does.....XP will only search the floppy drive during the
installation.
peter
"Homer J. Simpson" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:O2ImcVw9HHA.5424@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hmmm.... "floppy"? What's a floppy? Maybe you meant "CD"?
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the F6 custom driver option *still*
> to this day only look for floppies?
>
>