I'm somewhat hampered here by only having built SATA Raid systems, but I
imagine the solution is the same.  When booting to the XP disk, it will
pause and ask you to press F2 if you need to load any third party drivers.
Put your SATA drivers onto a floppy (copy from your MB install CD).  You'll
be prompted for it.
    SATA didn't exist when XP was released so there is no built in support.
You go through the same process when using RAID (either IDE or SATA) or an
add on controller.

Good Luck,
                  Phill Roey


> I purchased a new serial ATA hard drive (160 Gig Western Digital) and am
> trying to install Windows XP on an Asus K8Vse deluxe for Athlon 64
processor
> with the 3400 AMD 64 processor installed. My problem is that I cannot get
> any operating system to see the hard drive although BIOS lists it. With
> another hard drive installed and the SATA hard drive connected, the other
> drive will recognize the SATA drive. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Bill Havard
>
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