Topic: Reinstalling XP sp2 on SATA drive

[daveeb]

Howdy folks 

As per title I want to start afresh on my PC rather than do a factory restore ie get rid of all the rubbish.  As things stand at the moment the SATA drives are seen as IDE. When I wipe the drive and start afresh will the SATA drives be recognised by the XP sp2 disc (3 1/2 yrs old). I don't want to be prompted for SATA drivers as the machine has no floppy drive. I did read something about disabling AHCI in the bios to achieve this 

[Sandra]

Which PC are you doing it on Dave, it was only the earlier sata enabled mobo and bios that needed the drivers, later ones are fine.

[daveeb]

I knew this would be up your street Sandra.  I'm doing it on an oldish medion pc - bought April 2005. The 8386 to be exact. MSI mobo same as the 8383 but can't off hand remember the model. I thought that if drivers were needed they would be loaded when you do a factory restore but it could be a problem if doing a clean install from the windows disc.

Edit...just remembered, its the MSI 7091 v.2

[Sandra]

I think you should be ok at that Dave.

[daveeb]

Thanks Sandra. Your a gem