Installing XP SP2 on SATA II??

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krinish

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I will be purchasing 250 GB SATA II HDD today.
Ive heard there are quite a few issues installing WINXP on SATA drives.

I will be uisng only this SATA drive has my HDD.

My MOBO is Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2 ATI Radeon. 690 V chipset.
Will the XP installation automatically install it on the SATA drive? Will the BIOS or chipset help the installation to automatically install.

can some one please enlighten with what I require and what will be needed to be done to install it.
 
spitfire

spitfire

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if you have sp2 slipstreamed xp then you will not face any problem. Drive will be recognised automatically.

but if you hav a vanilla xp then you will hav to install drivers through floppy.
 
ravi_9793

ravi_9793

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Go ahead and install winnxp SP2, you should not face any problem. If you get any problem, let us know.
 
topgear

topgear

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There should not be any kind of problem.
Even I've installed winxp sp2 integrated on seagate 80 GB sata2 HDD with my nvidia 650i ultra based mobo.
 
nvidia

nvidia

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krinish said:
I will be purchasing 250 GB SATA II HDD today.
Ive heard there are quite a few issues installing WINXP on SATA drives.
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Where did you hear that anyway??:p And what kind of issues?:p
I use Windows XP2 on my 320GB SATA2 HDD.. No problem at all..
 
r2d2

r2d2

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^^ some older sata controllers doesn't suppport hot swap, so that may be your case.

Haven't tried this but sata hot swap can be disabled for nforce motherboards, see this link

*www.nforcershq.com/forum/wed-jun-07-2006-135-pm-vp561642.html
 
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