Reinstalling on SATA Drive

[Lori Kuiper]

I have a NF7-S V2.0 MB and Western Digital 120GB HD. I am running Windows
XP Professional which I already have loaded on my HD connected to Primary
IDE.

I want to convert the HD to SATA re the converter that came with the MB, and
reinstall the OS. I have loaded the SATA drivers on my current XP install
and was planning to hook up the drive to the SATA cable, let XP recognize
it, and then change boot too CDRW drive and let XP reinstall,but now I am
not sure what the best way is to go about this.

I originally formatted the HD with XP CD to NTFS. I am going to have
another IDE drive as well as the SATA drive that XP will be reinstalled on.
Should I just reformat with a Win98 boot disk before attaching to SATA
onboard controller? Since I will be using multiple HD's is it best to
create a small FAT partition & then format the rest in NTFS? Should I
format with the W98 boot disk to FAT32 instead of FAT and then let XP
convert it? Not sure if this will work either since I already formatted the
drive with NTFS. I also plan on having 2 DVD/CD RW drives attached.

Could someone please explain the best way to get the reinstall completed and
if I need to create the 100mg or so DOS partition to avoid any problems?

I would be so grateful for a reply, I was hoping to start the reformat
tonight!

 

[peter]

SATA is a type of HD not a file system.So your HD has both SATA and EIDE
connectors??
If you already have the SATA drivers installed in XP you just need to do the
physical connection inside the system and correct the boot order in the BIOS.If
by chance that does not work then you need to load the SATA drivers to a floppy
and re-install XP(back into its own directory or format during the
install)during this installation it will ask you if you are installing onto a
drive other than IDE at which point it also prompts you to push F6 and then asks
for those drivers on a floppy.
Dont forget to do all those lovely updates!!
peter