AM I being stupid? XP Install fails

[Stellios]

I might be missing the blatently obvious here, but then again I might not be.

Ive went to install XP SP2 onto my rig, which contains a 320GB SATA Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drive. When installing XP do I need to hit F6 to install SATA drivers onto the system before the install begins or not? If so where can they be found, as I cannot find them. I went to install it and all went in well, then when I went to boot in off the drive it just sat and hung and done nout. Seagate say there no SATA driver required for the drive to work, which has thrown me off slightly, as it doesnt say whether its for Windows itself, or whether it means you dont need to install 3rd party drivers upon the XP installation.

I should know the answer to this, as im not an inexperienced user, but ive never done an XP install onto a SATA drive before.

Cheers for any advice.

 

[gamesaregood]

All modern motherboard don't require the driver to be installed any longer as the bios uses an IDE mode so it appears as an IDE drive to XP. If its an older 1st Gen SATA motherboard AKA Socket A / P4 kind of age then a driver might be required and blow the dust of that floppy drive in the bottom of the draw as that's the only way other than re-burning the XP CD with the drivers!

 

[Snapshot]

It should be as gamesaregood say but it's worth checking the mobo BIOS to make sure it's in IDE mode rather than RAID or AHCI. I still wouldn't expect it to just hang if it does need drivers; it should say it can't find a drive to install on.