Lmao! 300gb/s dunno what I was thinking there!
I took the jumpers off (both drives) and i suspect I have installed in IDE mode. It's a major pain as it's a pc for the creation of music (lots of streaming samples off disk) so throughput is a big concern especially as I haven't raid0'ed this time.
After some searching I found this...
"I googled a LOT to find a solution which would not require reinstallation of XP
(after I had installed XP in 'IDE' mode). Then, I think it was Lenovo's site, I
bumped into a very useful reminder about how MSwin works. I finally
chose 'Update Driver' for the 82801GBM (in Device Manager) and then chose
'Have Disk' and pointed to it where Intel's drivers (v7.something) were...
After that this laptop booted XP nicely even after I enabled AHCI in bios.
Afterwards, I was able to install Intel's latest (InetlAHCI_v7.8.0.1012, ie.
iata78_enu.exe), which refused to install when the laptop bios was setup
to use disks in IDE-mode (it just said something about there not being any
SATA/AHCI disks), which was the only mode for booting up this XP..."
Don't know how applicable this is but I'm gonna sort the bios out and try it. If not I'm going to have to use nLite aren't I?
It's a real shame because it took ages to install all the software!
Thanks for the replies