XP and SATA?

[bluedishwasher]

someone told me you cant have windows xp on a sata drive? my planned build would use 2 SATA hdd's in raid formation. is this true??

 

[Geoff]

Thats completely untrue, you can install XP on a SATA Drive. In fact, most people who have XP also have SATA drives.

What kind of raid were you going to use?

 

[The_Other_One]

Yeah, totally untrue... My last 3 computers have used SATA drives as their main boot drives.

 

[bluedishwasher]

most likely RAID 1

 

[magicman]

Whoever said that to you was definately barking up the wrong tree. It is true that the XP setup does not include SATA drivers, and so many motherboards come with a floppy with such drivers on it. A lot of later motherboards, though, have integrated circuitry which makes SATA drives appear as IDE ones, helping in installation.