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If I could offer my 2 cents. If I read your post right, you already have a hard drive with Windows installed on it. Plug the SATA drive into the motherboard and turn on SATA in the bios. When you boot into Windows, use W.D. format utility to format the hard drive. ( Yes, Windows should detect it ) There are no SATA drivers. You might be thinking RAID drivers that use a floppy.
Also, when/if your SATA drive is up and running, use Acronis TrueImage to transfer the old hard drive data to the new one. If you don't want to mirror, once the SATA drive is up and running, remove the PATA drive, go into the bios to change boot order to cd-rom drive, and boot from your XP disk and install Windows.
I did this on my sons computer. I added a 500Gig SATA drive to his 300Gig PATA. All I had to do was turn on SATA controllers in the bios and format the drive. Windows detected it, no problem.
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Last edited by Marmaduke : 10-04-2007 at 01:16 PM.
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