Installing Windows XP in a new PC with SATA main drive

[Guest]

I just bought a new PC with a MSI PM8M2-V Motherboard and a 80Gb Hitachi SATA
HD (only one). I need to install Windows XP SP2. Will booting from the XP
Sp2 CD just do it? I have no floppy drive, so in case I need to install the
SATA drivers, how do I do it? Thanks

 

[Jerry]

You will have to buy a floppy so that you can install the SATA drivers;
there is no other way.

 

[Cary Shultz]

Ale,

Unless you have created your own XP Install CD which has the Service Pack
integrated ( and maybe a lot of other things - like all the hotfixes and
some other applications ) that *includes* the drivers for the SATA
controller already 'correctly integrated' in the I386 folder you will need
to have the floppy disk for the SATA controller and you will need to hit F6
when it asks at the beginning of the installation so that you can supply the
proper drivers. Otherwise you will think that you are going to be
successful until that first reboot comes along. At that point the
installation will *complain* about not being able to find the HDD.