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glee wrote:
"philo" wrote in message
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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....

It has SATA support if your BIOS is set to IDE Mode, but I'm not aware
that a clean install has drivers if the BIOS is set to AHCI mode. Have
you clean-installed XP on a system with the SATA options in the
BIOS set to AHCI, without having to add drivers via F6?

When the BIOS is set to IDE Mode, Windows uses the stock IDE drivers
that has been in Windows since 1990 or earlier. Unfortunately for me, my
12 SATA machines have no such BIOS setting. And five of them only have a
RAID setting as far as hard drives goes.

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Bill
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