You have one 200MB SATA drive with a partition C and D.
partition C is a primary partition
is D a primary partition?

Is the SATA controller on MB or a PCI card?

Boot up with XP CD, press F6 to install SATA drivers. Then you can install
XP on D partition.



"promicro" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been using a 200MD sata drive for my primary C: and D: drives as my
> ata drive is too small. I set my bios to see the sata drive as the primary
> drive and have no trouble with Win 2000 Pro on this C: drive but I can't get
> Windows XP Pro to install on this D: partition - it tells me that I have to
> put it on my ata drive.
>
> I've checked all the M/S product sheets I can find on their site and nothing
> tells me that this can't be done. has anyone here done this or know what
> else I can try?
>
> thanks in advance, rob
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