You might have to build an install with SATA drivers. I had to do that for a laptop. Or, tell the system to emulate PATA in the BIOS. Often times there's an option for that in the BIOS
John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 2:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: newer laptop and Windows xp Just picked up a new (refurbished) Gateway laptop for a non-profit account I service. It came with Windows Vista Home Premium. The NP has some Open license tickets for XP pro and I want to install XP Pro in this device so that it can join the domain. I made all the Vista disks when I got the machine and hunted down the XP drivers from the Gateway website. Actually finding the drivers suggests that XP willrun in the box. However: When trying to load XP I get the isntall started and then it moves on and says that it can't load it here. Somewhere, I think I remember reading that XP won't boot off of a SATA drive. Can anyone verify that? I can't seem to find any definitive reference at this time, but will continue ot look. This site is not yet ready to migrate to Windows 7, and I sure don't want to introduce Vista there. They also don't, at this time, have a legal license for Win7, and didn't want to incur that expense at this time. Anone have some thoughts about XP on SATA drives? Len Hammond CSI:Hartland lenhamm...@gmail.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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