Installing Windows XP on SATA II Drive...

[sugoi]

I just recently purchased a new SATA II Drive, a Western Digital 250GB one to be exact...

I want to install Windows XP on to the SATA II Drive instead of the IDE, but it says something about incompatible Windows XP partition... i did a lot of research, and it seems that I need to get a Floppy Disk and put the SATA Drivers onto it and then load them up before installing Windows on a SATA drive...

My motherboard is A8N SLI Premium, but it doesn't seem to have a floppy with the drivers on it... i take it my windows cd is fairly old, a few years so it probably doesn't have the drivers on it when booting from CD....

i saw this on the Asus Website: Silicon Image 3114 SATA RAID driver V1.1.9.9 for Windows XP(WHQL)/2K/2003. .... does that sound like the drivers i need to put onto a floppy?

 

[sugoi]

hmm thats what i thought too... im at work right now, and just made the floppy, so hopefully when i get home, i can install windows onto the SATA-II...

 

[sugoi]

the thing is, i just plugged the SATA II Drive into the motherboard like i did with a previous one, but at that time i already had windows on an IDE Drive, that SATA II was just used for extra storage, now i bought another SATA II drive intending to put Windows XP on it, i booted the windows CD at startup and did the partitions and stuff, created a new 30GB partition on the 250GB NEW HDD, and tried to install windows onto it but it said "It needed to write to the Hard Disk but it was not a Windows XP compatible Partition".. so i checked with the IDE and it works with IDE without any hassle, but seems like i need to install these drivers for Windows to be installed onto the SATA Drives... will try it when i get home...

If i had a later Windows, it might have had SATA drivers on it... but this Windows came with an old PC about 3-4 years ago... doesn't have SP2 either...