On 09/07/2012 07:18 PM, BillW50 wrote:
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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.



Oh boy here goes

any version of XP with sp3 has built in SATA drivers.
I'm a computer refurbisher and have done hundreds upon hundreds of
installs and never had a problem with getting SATA recognized.

I'd make an sp3 slipstreamed CD....