another sata problem

[penguinphil]

so Ive read a lot of older internet articles that say that windows XP doesnt naturally support SATA drives and you have to do a repair install and hit F6 and instert a floppy (I dont even have a floppy drive) to install the SATA drivers. I ghosted my IDE to my SATA drive and it boots, but there are some weird problems i'm having when i boot into the SATA drive. The steps i took to ghost were:

install the SATA drive
install stuff from cd that came with SATA drive
run norton ghost from IDE to the new SATA drive
have Bios boot to SCSI

and like I said, it boots, but with weird issues
for example, some generic windows 32 file thing crashes right when the comp starts (i get the error message)
when i start firefox, the top bar looks like old school internet explorer for a while before switching to what it should look like
I can't play any music

what's going on?

 

[penguinphil]

anyone?

 

[StrangleHold]

XP has SATA drivers your thinking of sata running RAID, thats what pushing F6 is to install your raid drivers

 

[penguinphil]

XP has SATA drivers your thinking of sata running RAID, thats what pushing F6 is to install your raid drivers

so......

does this mean I need to do a repair install of XP and hit F6 to install some drivers (which would be a major problem because I have no floppy drive)?

I feel like it is some other issue that I just dont know about

 

[Burgerbob]

so......

does this mean I need to do a repair install of XP and hit F6 to install some drivers (which would be a major problem because I have no floppy drive)?

I feel like it is some other issue that I just dont know about

If you have any newer version of XP (SP2) then you dont need drivers for SATA.