Sata ?

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I just built two Neo2 Platinum systems with XP Pro on a Maxtor IDE
drive. Now one of the people I built it for wants to add one Sata drive,
non raid (obviously). Windows stays on the IDE drive. I did not install
sata drivers during XP install. Will XP recognize the Sata drive and can
it be partitioned and formated through XP?

Thanks,
Bill

 

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I don't remember Windows doing anything different because my only drive was
SATA (therefore without RAID).

My 915G boards BIOS SATA setting offers IDE, AHCI or RAID. I left it on
IDE.

You posted a week ago, any solutions yet?

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John
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"BF" <b123f@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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>I just built two Neo2 Platinum systems with XP Pro on a Maxtor IDE drive.
>Now one of the people I built it for wants to add one Sata drive, non raid
>(obviously). Windows stays on the IDE drive. I did not install sata
>drivers during XP install. Will XP recognize the Sata drive and can it be
>partitioned and formated through XP?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill