Thanks for the answer.  I can easily install the OS's
on the IDE drive and then it probably would not matter
since I would think that if Win98 doesn't understand a
SATA drive it would show only one drive and XP would
show both drives.  The only question I have then would
be does the jumper setting on the drives determine
master and slave or is there some priority given
because one drive would be SATA and one drive IDE?

John

--- "Dean K. Kukral" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> First of all, Windows ME does not support SATA, so
> whether or not you 
> can do what you want is somewhat questionable
> because of the dual-boot. 
> (Someone else may have done this.  I remember that I
> kept ME for two 
> years before I had to go to XP because I wanted to
> use SATA.)
> 
> Assuming (not a sure thing) that you can use both
> operating systems in 
> an XP-dominant dual-boot system, how you can mix and
> match the drives 
> depends somewhat on your motherboard.  You
> **should** be able to use 
> both drives; I have been able to use both kinds of
> drives on my XP 
> systems.  You will need the SATA drivers for your
> motherboard.
> 
> Then, again, you could put ME on one older disk and
> XP on the new SATA 
> disk and plug/unplug the disk that you want.  That
> would work best if 
> you had to have ME, but only used it rarely.
> 
> I know that this is not as much help as you may
> like, but it might get 
> you started in your plans.  I'm sure that others
> will give you more 
> help, too.
> 
> Dean Kukral
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Freibergs" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:00 AM
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Sata & IDE Hard drives
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have an Intel D865G mobo that seems to give me the
> ability to have 
> either Sata or IDE hdd's.  Right now I have a 120Gig
> and a 40Gig that 
> are both IDE.  But I'm probably going to have to
> replace the 120Gig 
> drive.  Can I go to a Sata hdd and still keep the
> IDE drive?  I'm 
> dual-booting 98se and xp sp2 and would like to keep
> that because I have 
> some programs that will not work on xp no matter
> what.  Does that make a 
> difference?  And then if I can mix the drives do I
> configure them master 
> and slave as I'm used to?  And is there a preference
> of one or the other 
> as the master?  Thanks for any advice you guys can
> give.
> 
> John
> 
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