Sata and DS3P

[Damo1176]

I have just bought a SATA II 320 Gb hdd and a DS3P motherboard, its as totally new system.

1. Can I use my existing XP cd?
2. How do I go about setting it up as a SATA Hdd as first time round I got standard IDe it seemed. I don't want RAID. Well not yet anyway.

Thanks for any help.

PS I aint got a floippy drive and where do you get cables to fit a floppy drive considering the Corsair 520W does not come with iots own floppy disk cable?

 

[Damo1176]

The 620 does come with dual floppy cables. They plug onto a molex string to give 2 floppy connections. So double check your bag.

Thats not good, mine definetly didn't. I bought from overclockers who do I need to speak to, is there anyone on here I can speak to.

 

[Damo1176]

1) Yes, although if it's an OEM disk then it's technically against the EULA to install on a second machine.

2) If you set the SATA controllers to Legacy mode in the BIOS then XP will install without the need for drivers.

How do you do that the DS3P bios does anyone know, sorry I'm a newbie.