H
Hagar
Flightless Bird
Three years ago I installed a SATA HDD (500G) on an Intel motherboard and
then installed Windows XP, Home Edition and everything ran fine.
Just put together a new machine with an ASUS board and a SATA HDD and once
again no XP installation problem.
The wizards at work tell me that is impossible, since XP does not support
SATA and that, at a minimum, I'd have to load some SATA drivers from a FDD
before installation, which of course I didn't and wasn't prompted to, by the
XP installation program. On both machines, when I go into the BIOS, the HDDs
are listed and recognized and the computers are working fine.
So my question is: what is the real story with Win XP and the SATA
compatibility ?? and why did it work for me when everyone said it couldn't
possibly ???
TIA,
Hagan Sahm
then installed Windows XP, Home Edition and everything ran fine.
Just put together a new machine with an ASUS board and a SATA HDD and once
again no XP installation problem.
The wizards at work tell me that is impossible, since XP does not support
SATA and that, at a minimum, I'd have to load some SATA drivers from a FDD
before installation, which of course I didn't and wasn't prompted to, by the
XP installation program. On both machines, when I go into the BIOS, the HDDs
are listed and recognized and the computers are working fine.
So my question is: what is the real story with Win XP and the SATA
compatibility ?? and why did it work for me when everyone said it couldn't
possibly ???
TIA,
Hagan Sahm