Installing Windows was: speakup is nice

[Gregory Nowak]

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
>> Windows doesn't have SATA drivers? How quaint?

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 05:28:05PM -0600, Nick Dotson wrote:
> Wrong!  I'm using them under XP Home Pro and Vista.

Vista does have sata drivers as far as I know. Xp home and pro are a
different story though, because they don't in fact come with sata
drivers. From what I know, the way to install xp onto a system with
only sata controllers is to get the drivers for that controller for xp
from the manufacturer, and choose the option during xp install that
lets you add additional drivers, before xp goes searching for drives,
and doing the rest of the install. I do stand to be corrected here
though, but that's what I know.

Things might have changed for a xp cd with sp3 integrated, but it
would surprise me if that's actually the case.

Greg


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