If you press F6 when prompted during the boot of the XP CD, you can install
the SATA controller drivers and complete the OS installation directly to the
SATA drive.

Carl

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tanenbaum, Eric J
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 9:48 AM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] SATA & IDE Compatability

I have a new Gigabyte GA-81PE1000 Pro 2 motherboard which offers SATA &
IDE support. I cannot get  my old IDE hard drives and my new SATA drives
to work together. I had to reinstall Windows XP Pro from scratch and
installed the appropriate SCSI (?) drivers, which were copied from the
Gigabyte CD onto a floppy. In fact the only way that I could get a
system was to load the operating system on an IDE disk --- the SATA
disks are no longer recognised.


Help! (Please)


Eric Tanenbaum
Department of Government
University of Essex
Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom
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