even though i was logged into the sata\windows and specified the sata drive, it fixed the boot for the ide\windows so it had no effect. so i removed the recovery console, rebooted, during the boot process i removed the IDE drive. sata\windows never knew...

windows on the SATA drive. So, my goals are as follows: 1. Get BIOS to recognize the sata drive. 2. Install Windows XP on the sata drive. FYI, the BIOS has been updated to the most recent version. interesting, I am having the exact same problem with...

no luck whatsoever in getting my SATA drive to be recognised during the win xp setup. I have looked all over to try and find out how to install windows on a SATA drive, and while I have learned much from this, It still doesn't seem to work with me. When in...

of the world (read, Windows) as if it were a simple IDE device, and Windows DOES have a built-in driver for that! That's the easy way to install and run Windows from a SATA drive. Read some harddrive reviews, then you know what is acceptable. Thanks guys! ...

how to do this should be easy to find by doing a ). The reason you want to do this is to try to avoid the possible problems with SATA a prev poster referred to. Using a Windows SP2 install CD is not a guarantee you won't have Windows SATA driver problems, but...

IDE DVD/CD drive because it still works fine. Again, here's the recommended (but not necessary) method of installing Windows when you have a SATA and PATA/IDE drive: 1. Install all necessary components only, including the SATA drive 2. Install Windows...

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...

know is when my brother bought his S-ATA 1 HDD he installed Windows XP SP2 on it [the 1 Win XP was on the 80 Gb ATA drive] so when I installed it I typed F6 in Setup to install windows on a S-ATA HDD [i made a diskette with the necessary files] loaded from...

Boot Problem. I just reinstalled windows on my SATA drive instead of my ide drive, I first changed the boot order in the bios to make sure the sata was first. Now the only way vista will boot is if the vista dvd is in the DVD drive. Without the disk I get a...

Windows 2000 sata driver. where can I get an installation time sata driver for windows 2000?. where can I get an installation time sata driver for windows 2000? ...