Just ordered one of these
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.us...l=Z68%20Pro3-M


They have 2 manuals that you can down load, but they seem to differ when
installing XP with SATA drives.


The Quick Installation guide has no reference in installing SATA Drivers
But the User Manual stated that you generate SATA drivers on a Floppy.

The MoBo supports a floppy and have a few floppy drives floating around


I am using a Dual boot with WIN 7, but I have a HP scanner not a cheap
model with only XP drivers plus a Epson printer with limited driver.

Both HD drives support NCQ


This on there download Page

SATA RAID Driver (For system to read from floppy diskette during Windows
installation)



I am Not Using RAID so this is what is confusing me..

Unless this Driver has options for both..?

Thanks

Frank Williams wrote:

> Just ordered one of these
> http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.us...l=Z68%20Pro3-M

> They have 2 manuals that you can down load, but they
> seem to differ when installing XP with SATA drives.

Yeah, XP does vary with that detail.

> The Quick Installation guide has no reference in installing SATA Drivers

You dont normally need anything special with the later XP
SPs, just carry on regardless and the install just works fine.

Its generally only the older motherboards that needed anything special.

> But the User Manual stated that you generate SATA drivers on a Floppy.

> The MoBo supports a floppy and have a few floppy drives floating around

> I am using a Dual boot with WIN 7, but I have a HP scanner not a cheap
> model with only XP drivers plus a Epson printer with limited driver.

> Both HD drives support NCQ

> This on there download Page

> SATA RAID Driver (For system to read from floppy diskette during Windows installation)

> I am Not Using RAID so this is what is confusing me..

> Unless this Driver has options for both..?

The short story is that it should install fine without any special drivers.

The most you might have to do is set IDE mode in the BIOS, but you usually dont even need to do that.

The only time you might have a problem is with a real dinosaur
of a motherboard and the original XP without any SPs applied.

You do realise that there is a virtual XP that comes with the better versions of Win7 dont you ?