Reformat SATA harddrive

[Guest]

Hi,

My comp currently have 2 Western D harddrives with several partition on both
drives. I`m thinking of reformatting and reinstalling my copy of winxp home
to one of the drives ( with previous installation). My question is:

a) Do I need SATA driver after reformatting the drive? If I remember
correctly SATA drives need additional driver when installing winxp.
b) Can winxp recognize my second drive?
c) Do I need to activate winxp after reinstallation. It looks like that I
still need to activate my winxp. There's no changes to my hardware though.

I just want confirmation after read through this board before proceeding
with the reformatting. Thank you.

 

[Guest]

Usually a solo SATA drive doesnt require the F6 option..Some do,for details
go
to:http:support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-010695.htm
Details on SATA & RAID are outlined for youre install.

 

[DL]

Whether you have to install sata/raid drivers, via F6 may depend on your
mobo