Installing Windows was: speakup is nice

[Nick Dotson]

Last 3 XP boxes I bought all came with SATA DVD and hard drives--but I 
didn't build them so don't know the ins and outs of how they got things 
going...

Nick

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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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