See a future problem with SATA drives?. I am in the process of converting 3 PCs and 2 NAS units over to SATA. The problem I can see if I have to reinstall XP in the future is it doesn't see the full size of the 1T sata drives until I have installed sp1....

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...

SATA& PATA hard drives switched in bios GIGABYTE. The Bios in my new main board has the sata drive and Pata drive assignments switched with each other. Windows is on the Sata drive but wont run unless the Pata drive is also there. Sata drive came from...

with 50G remaining now the computer see the two 215 partitions but not the 50 for windows on the Sata drive the whole drive to 500Gs Western digital caviar green edition. My issue is the computer will not read windows on the Sata drive only the old Ide drive...

IDE windows sees IDE drive as C:\ - SATA boots to SATA-harddrive\windows, SATA windows sees SATA drive as C:\ But then 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...

of the drive before using it with a nice clean OS. Look! I can't even reinstall windows on the SATA drive because of that Bad Pool Caller error! Looking at things, I am confident that it isn't my SATA drive which is faulty as I can still access those files...

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...

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...

You don't need a floppy. Just set your SATA controller to native IDE mode, or emulated IDE mode, can be called either one depending on your BIOS, insert the Windows disk in the CD/DVD drive, and install Windows on the SATA drive first. You can connect your...

install the drivers at windows installation. LIES! I've NEVER had to use a floppy to load Windows on an SATA drive. Never. if your ever gonna use SATA drives you will need a floppy drive to install the drivers at windows installation. Driver for...