Installing XP SP2 on SATA II??

krinish · 07-02-2008, 11:37 AM

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 · 09-02-2008, 08:59 AM

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.

Nav11aug · 09-02-2008, 11:59 AM

hey, i have a Barracuda 80 GB SATA II ... no probs whatsoever with XP with SP2

too_techy · 12-02-2008, 06:06 PM

i just installed 160 gb sata II hard disk yesterday
i didn't have any prob with xp2 either

ravi_9793 · 12-02-2008, 06:20 PM

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

**topgear** · 12-02-2008, 08:10 PM

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 · 12-02-2008, 08:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by krinish

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

Where did you hear that anyway??

And what kind of issues?

I use Windows XP2 on my 320GB SATA2 HDD.. No problem at all..

casanova · 13-02-2008, 12:05 AM

Me too din't face any problems. But of my friends XP shows his HDD as a removable drive.

r2d2 · 13-02-2008, 05:26 AM

^^ sata hard drives support hot swap thats why they are shown as removable drives.

casanova · 13-02-2008, 06:49 AM

Then why doesn't it show for me as a removable drive.

r2d2 · 13-02-2008, 11:43 AM

^^ 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

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/wed-...-vp561642.html