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Ken1943 wrote:
XP SP3 , not sure with sp2, has sata support built in.

What? Are you talking about retail versions of Windows XP? As there are
no retail versions of XP SP3 that I know of. And no retail versions of
XP had any SATA support built in AFAIK.

Now as for OEM versions, that is totally different. I believe those
generic OEM versions follows the retail versions as far as SATA support
goes. But branded OEM versions were completely a different thing. Some
SP2 did and probably most SP3 did support SATA out of the box.

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Bill
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