Question about installing Windows XP Home on a SATA drive

[Nomad84]

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You might not even need the drivers. I recently built a new box with SATA (integrated on MB) and didn't need to install any drivers whatsoever.

When you initially boot your windows cd, if you pay attention you will see a message at the bottom saying "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party driver" or something like that. If you boot the windows CD and the setup sees your HD -- you are golden. If not, you will have to press F6 and supply a driver disk.

I'd lay better than even odds that you will be ok without it.

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THIS IS CORRECT. If you are going to boot from this SATA drive you will HAVE to press F6 and HAVE to use a floppy disk.

If you have a USB floppy drive that won't work either, it has to be old school. Go to the website of your motherboard and download the latest drivers - usually they will have a makeadisk.exe application to make things easier.

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Thank you both. I don't expect to have any trouble out of this, since I know what I've got to do now. I'm just trying to read up on everything that I need to prepare for to try top limit the number of surprises I get tomorrow. I am just now beginning to suspect that this may be the reason Newegg gave me a free floppy drive for ordering a SATA hard drive.