XP install / SATA problems.. First post here, so hello! Cutting a long story short, due to the fact I just wrote pretty much an essay then didnt select a sub-category which made me lose my question, I am in need of some help regarding a new SATA drive. Specs...

which Windows you will install. IF you have Win XP in any version, choose Native IDE. This has the BIOS make the real SATA device appear to Windows to be a simple IDE device it knows about and it will all work. Any other setting (which seems to be what you...

from a smaller PATA to a larger SATA harddrive. I imagine that Windows XP will have problems doing this. My plan was to add the SATA drive, image the PATA to SATA using True Image 8, then change the BIOS to boot from the SATA drive, and finally remove...

SATA drives (they just become Disk1(SATA) and Disk2 (SATA) where the boot drive (IDE) becomes Disk0) next question : is there a generic SATA driver that can be loaded before Windows Recovery Console starts to enable it seeing the SATA drives? or is...

to install Windows on that drive. The detection of the old Seagate (250GB) sata drive was not a problem since windows was already installed and I was able to activate the HD via Disk Management. My problem is that when I try to install Windows on the new...

for having problems but install the drivers see where that takes you. Shadowspank, that's what is driving me nuts with this HD. Like you mentioned, I had to install the Sata drivers (hitting F6) as windows was installing which I did each time. Got windows installed,...

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...

what they are, but I can't make much out of it. Bottom line, I think I need to install the SATA drivers for my motherboard. Can I do this by doing a "repair installation" of Windows XP, in which case, I'd have the floppy drive with the sata drivers and...

NOT install the driver from windows update for the LAN controller. Use instead the one from Gigabyte or the one that came with your MOBO driver’s disk. If you already install the 'suggested' windows updated driver your NIC will go dead. To remove this 'bad'...

that interacts with samsung SATA drive. Maybe you guys can help me trouble shoot the problem. Thanks for your time! The problem is Windows XP. It wasn't designed to handle SATA. You need to either or temporarily use a and install the OS on that....