Installing Windows XP on SATA hard drive. Ok, I just bought a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250 gig SATA 150 hard drive (16mb cache), and I want to put win xp on it, so I can use my current 80 gig IDE drive for other things, mostly as a backup. The problem is I am having...

with the F6 during install. It enabled it to see the entire sata hard drive. It would go through the entire install but on reboot it would blue screen. No doubt the raid driver. I know from experience that xp will install but not see the entire drive....

i found the stumper. because win XP builds the MBR during install based on weather you have IDE drive or SATA drive, i am unable to boot just from the sata hard drive alone because the MBR contains IDE drivers and not SATA drivers. [b]i'd hate to completly...

when you have a SATA and PATA/IDE drive: 1. Install all necessary components only, including the SATA drive 2. Install Windows 3. turn PC OFF 4. Install the IDE/PATA hard drive 5. Boot up (Windows will install all necessary software and configure) 6....

for 140. The problems with Vista are why I bought my laptop with XP Pro instead of Vista Home Premium. Have you never installed windows on a sata Hdd?? You need to give Drivers to the Setup(through F6) so he can detect sata hard drives. Problem is... My laptop...

How to set up Bios to read SATA with existing IDE HDon Gateway Gt 5028. I am having problems with installing a Sata hard drive... I have an existing IDE hard drive that has windows Xp installed my intent was to install a Sata as a back up I come to find out...

windows xp on original hard drive. So I did then I partitioned it and installed windows7 on the second partition. My mistake I think was not uninstalling the old 8 gig drive before i did all this. My regular hard drive is a SATA hard drive. My old 8gig...

motherboard and a 80gb maxtor sata hard drive. i've been > trying to install windows xp professional to my system > but failed. during the installation process, windows> setup could not continue because it did not detect any >hard drive. after browsing...

So i run ME. Its not the ram. I can easly run ME on another hard drive. a IDE hard drive. I can run XP on the SATA hard drive. I just cant get ME to install on the SATA hard drive. . And that may be the problem. Are you sure windows ME supports SATA? try...

Trying to install first SATA hard drive. OS: windows XP SP3 I just got a new 500 GB Samsung SATA hard drive, which I plan on using for storage. My current hard drive is a 250 GB seagate IDE drive that has the OS on it. This is my first SATA drive. I also...