Hello, i'm mark i have a very interesting question for any one to hel
me please i have Windows XP home i have 3 hard disks and 2 CD ro
drives could any one tell me if XP has been told to only suport
devices my main bourd suports and detects all 5 and i was wondering i
theres a patch out there that will over come this anoying aspect t
windows XP home i know many of you will say yes get a bigger hard dis
but i have always been the person to push my system and prove a poin
lol i hope some one out there knows why XP's been like this i have bee
told there is a patch out there for this kinda thing any one know how t
help me? and it's not in device manager i have pluged an external lapto
disk in to the system so it's an xp fault and can't understandwhy
would have 5 devices lol, hope to here from some one.

Mar

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Mark0152

You should have no problem with XP supporting all 5 drives as long a your
motherboard supports that number of drives.

JS

"Mark0152" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> Hello, i'm mark i have a very interesting question for any one to help
> me please i have Windows XP home i have 3 hard disks and 2 CD rom
> drives could any one tell me if XP has been told to only suport 4
> devices my main bourd suports and detects all 5 and i was wondering if
> theres a patch out there that will over come this anoying aspect to
> windows XP home i know many of you will say yes get a bigger hard disk
> but i have always been the person to push my system and prove a point
> lol i hope some one out there knows why XP's been like this i have been
> told there is a patch out there for this kinda thing any one know how to
> help me? and it's not in device manager i have pluged an external laptop
> disk in to the system so it's an xp fault and can't understandwhy i
> would have 5 devices lol, hope to here from some one.
>
> Mark
>
>
> --
> Mark0152

I do not use XP home but XP professional. I have 5 devices working fine 4
hard drives and 1 DVD writer.
I use both the ATAPI and Serial ATA connections since most motherboards only
support 4 ATAPI devices unless you install an add on card.
I have no problem with winXP recogonizing and dealing with all. (I actually
had six devices for awhile while copying from an old hard drive to a newer
one)

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www.hildrum.com
"Mark0152" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> Hello, i'm mark i have a very interesting question for any one to help
> me please i have Windows XP home i have 3 hard disks and 2 CD rom
> drives could any one tell me if XP has been told to only suport 4
> devices my main bourd suports and detects all 5 and i was wondering if
> theres a patch out there that will over come this anoying aspect to
> windows XP home i know many of you will say yes get a bigger hard disk
> but i have always been the person to push my system and prove a point
> lol i hope some one out there knows why XP's been like this i have been
> told there is a patch out there for this kinda thing any one know how to
> help me? and it's not in device manager i have pluged an external laptop
> disk in to the system so it's an xp fault and can't understandwhy i
> would have 5 devices lol, hope to here from some one.
>
> Mark
>
>
> --
> Mark0152

The only problem you may run into is the SATA may have to be the XP system
partition drive (known as boot drive -old school-).
My PC has two onboard ide hard drives, two ide card connected hard drives,
and two scsi hard drives, one onboard ide DVD burner, onboard ide connected
LS120, and a scsi cdrom. XP is happy with all of it.
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Jonny
"Mark0152" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> Hello, i'm mark i have a very interesting question for any one to help
> me please i have Windows XP home i have 3 hard disks and 2 CD rom
> drives could any one tell me if XP has been told to only suport 4
> devices my main bourd suports and detects all 5 and i was wondering if
> theres a patch out there that will over come this anoying aspect to
> windows XP home i know many of you will say yes get a bigger hard disk
> but i have always been the person to push my system and prove a point
> lol i hope some one out there knows why XP's been like this i have been
> told there is a patch out there for this kinda thing any one know how to
> help me? and it's not in device manager i have pluged an external laptop
> disk in to the system so it's an xp fault and can't understandwhy i
> would have 5 devices lol, hope to here from some one.
>
> Mark
>
>
> --
> Mark0152

You say XP sees 4 out of the 5 drives..........which one does it not
see????????
How are they connected??? On which drive is XP installed to???
SATA drives need SATA drivers installed during the XP install ...on some
MOBO.
Only formatted HD's will be visible in Explorer........are they formatted??
peter

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"Mark0152" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> Hello, i'm mark i have a very interesting question for any one to help
> me please i have Windows XP home i have 3 hard disks and 2 CD rom
> drives could any one tell me if XP has been told to only suport 4
> devices my main bourd suports and detects all 5 and i was wondering if
> theres a patch out there that will over come this anoying aspect to
> windows XP home i know many of you will say yes get a bigger hard disk
> but i have always been the person to push my system and prove a point
> lol i hope some one out there knows why XP's been like this i have been
> told there is a patch out there for this kinda thing any one know how to
> help me? and it's not in device manager i have pluged an external laptop
> disk in to the system so it's an xp fault and can't understandwhy i
> would have 5 devices lol, hope to here from some one.
>
> Mark
>
>
> --
> Mark0152

not really sure what your asking. what for computer is it are you attaching
a external drive? and how are you attaching it? this computer has 2 Sata
hard drives in a raid 2 Sata independent 3 CD's and a zip drive. allot
depends on the motherboard and what it supports

"Jonny" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> The only problem you may run into is the SATA may have to be the XP system
> partition drive (known as boot drive -old school-).
> My PC has two onboard ide hard drives, two ide card connected hard drives,
> and two scsi hard drives, one onboard ide DVD burner, onboard ide
> connected LS120, and a scsi cdrom. XP is happy with all of it.
> --
> Jonny
> "Mark0152" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>> Hello, i'm mark i have a very interesting question for any one to help
>> me please i have Windows XP home i have 3 hard disks and 2 CD rom
>> drives could any one tell me if XP has been told to only suport 4
>> devices my main bourd suports and detects all 5 and i was wondering if
>> theres a patch out there that will over come this anoying aspect to
>> windows XP home i know many of you will say yes get a bigger hard disk
>> but i have always been the person to push my system and prove a point
>> lol i hope some one out there knows why XP's been like this i have been
>> told there is a patch out there for this kinda thing any one know how to
>> help me? and it's not in device manager i have pluged an external laptop
>> disk in to the system so it's an xp fault and can't understandwhy i
>> would have 5 devices lol, hope to here from some one.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mark0152
>
>

Statements of fact. Replies don't always imply questions. Don't understand
where you see a question in my statements.
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"Bigdawg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> not really sure what your asking. what for computer is it are you
> attaching a external drive? and how are you attaching it? this computer
> has 2 Sata hard drives in a raid 2 Sata independent 3 CD's and a zip
> drive. allot depends on the motherboard and what it supports
>
> "Jonny" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> The only problem you may run into is the SATA may have to be the XP
>> system partition drive (known as boot drive -old school-).
>> My PC has two onboard ide hard drives, two ide card connected hard
>> drives, and two scsi hard drives, one onboard ide DVD burner, onboard ide
>> connected LS120, and a scsi cdrom. XP is happy with all of it.
>> --
>> Jonny
>> "Mark0152" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>
>>> Hello, i'm mark i have a very interesting question for any one to help
>>> me please i have Windows XP home i have 3 hard disks and 2 CD rom
>>> drives could any one tell me if XP has been told to only suport 4
>>> devices my main bourd suports and detects all 5 and i was wondering if
>>> theres a patch out there that will over come this anoying aspect to
>>> windows XP home i know many of you will say yes get a bigger hard disk
>>> but i have always been the person to push my system and prove a point
>>> lol i hope some one out there knows why XP's been like this i have been
>>> told there is a patch out there for this kinda thing any one know how to
>>> help me? and it's not in device manager i have pluged an external laptop
>>> disk in to the system so it's an xp fault and can't understandwhy i
>>> would have 5 devices lol, hope to here from some one.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mark0152
>>
>>
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