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 -----Original Message----- From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tanenbaum, Eric J Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 9:48 AM To: [log in to unmask] 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 tel: [UK] 01206-872506 [Int'l] 44-1206-872506 fax: [UK] 01206-873234 [Int'l] 44-1206-873234 PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml