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

When booting to xp cd,press F6,install SATA drivers,after resume to xp cd boot
screen,select recovery,press enter key for password,then typeiskPart In
DiskPart,delete the partition(s) you dont want xp to install to,then you
can/could
create one,then press ESC key,then type:EXIT Reboot to xp cd,press F6,then
install xp.XP should install to the partition you want because the other(s)
are
raw,those can be formatted in xp once its installed.However D: on install
will
become C: by default.

"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
>
>
>

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
>
>
>