installing sata drives.

[grimpy]

thinking about getting a 76gb raptor for my set up,this will be the only hd in my system when installing xp will i have to install any drivers beforehand?

thanks.

[directhex]

you will need a driver for your sata controller on a floppy. press f6 at the early point in the xp installer you're asked to do so, feed it your floppy.

[dodgybob]

If the sata controller is not part of the mobo chipset then you will need drivers on a floppy.

Copy them to the floppy (make sure they're not in a folder just on the disk) and when installing press f6 when it prompts during the setup. after a short while it come to a screen where you can point it at the drivers and proceed.

It's a good idea to have a disk on standby anyway even if the sata is part of the mobo chipset as people have sometimes been having problems.

It's situations like this which make me keep a floppy still in this day and age.

[grimpy]

theres a floppy that came with my mobo (dfi nf4 ultra d).

sata raid driver disk
nvidia nf4
silicon image 3114
rev.1.0

will that be the one to use?

[Ruggerbugger]

Yep

[poindextermatic]

If I just bought a SATA drive as a third HDD (already have 2 IDE's), I'm assuming all I have to plug it in and away I go!?

[grimpy]

wouldnt you be better off having the sata as your boot drive and the ide for storage?

[poindextermatic]

Why, how much faster would it boot up?