Thread: Can XP Pro be installed on a SATA drive?
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Old March 20th 11, 05:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment,microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Can XP Pro be installed on a SATA drive?
On 3/20/2011 11:39 AM, Alias wrote:
On 03/20/2011 04:34 PM, philo wrote:
On 03/20/2011 08:01 AM, Don Schmidt wrote:
Got three SATA drives and Windows XP SP3 here.



Xp sp3 does support SATA drives

So does XP SP2.

Actually no they don't. At least not AHCI/SATA support anyway. If you
turn off AHCI in the BIOS, then you don't need a SATA driver. Although
to run the SATA controller in either AHCI or RAID mode, you need to
install a driver otherwise XP can't see it.

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Windows XP (and any OS older than Vista or linux kernel 2.6.19) does not
have came pre-packaged with driver to support AHCI/SATA mode, thus
creating a very common error that Wikipedia also described as "when
attempting to install Microsoft Windows XP or a previous version on an
AHCI-enabled system will cause the setup to fail with the error message
'set up could not detect hard disk drive…'".

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/1...-on-ahci-mode/

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