2nd HDD & OS problem

[milgo]

I've just installed a new maxtor sata 160GB alongside the existing maxtor ata 40GB. Being a sata drive this connects from a pci card on the mobo. Now i have installed the drive using maxblast3 from the maxtor website. It gives 2 options whilst installing a) as additional storage. b) as a boot drive. Now what i'd like is for this to be a boot drive, but I'd like to do a clean install of XP home as opposed to copying the OS from the 40GB drive, but i cannot see any option to do this. When i load the XP home CD and look for options to do a new install it never gives me the option to install on the new drive F:/ any ideas would be most welcome. Thanks

[nichomach]

That'll be because it doesn't "know" about the SATA card. You should have a driver disk with the card; first thing, straight after the "Press any key to boot from CD..." text, start hitting F6 - you'll then have the option to install additional disk controllers. You feed it the floppy with the driver on and it should then "see" the SATA drive.

[milgo]

Thanks very much nichomach, you were spot on. I now have XP home on a partition on my new HDD. When I now boot up the pc I get a screen telling me to choose which XP Home i would like to use, but of course they have the same name. Is there anyway to change the name of one of them to XP Home 1 for instance.