Corsa Sport Gav 
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im goin to be purchasing a 250gb or 300gb SATA hard drive in the next week. if i was too do a fresh install of XP on the new drive wud i need to install the sata drives by pressing f6? if so how will i do this as i have no floppy drive? could i just eject the xp cd and insert the mobo disc? 
 
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sorry if it dont make sence 
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jamesw 
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99% sure you got to do it via a floppy, suppose you could reburn an xp disc the the sata drivers included.
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jamesw 
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http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=20748 
 
 
 
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Corsa Sport Gav 
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cheers, might just buy the fdd wen i buy the hdd  
 
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Reedy 
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You will find out if you need to specify the drivers depending onthe mobo you  have and not the actual hard drive. 
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Russ 
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what mobo have you got? most mobos recognise sata drives
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Dom 
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usually you do! Though you can "slip stream" XP with the drivers or use an USB stick depending on motherboard  
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Corsa Sport Gav 
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the mobo is a DFI LAN Party UT-DR SLI NForce4 
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Russ 
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you;ll be fine then son
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Corsa Sport Gav 
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phew, cheers mate
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jamesw 
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the problem isnt with the mobo recognizing the sata drive, the problem is with windows setup recognizing the sata controller on the mobo  
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Russ 
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he wouldnt understand that though lol
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Corsa Sport Gav 
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quote: Originally posted by Russ 
he wouldnt understand that though lol 
   
 
who me?  
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