Last 3 XP boxes I bought all came with SATA DVD and hard drives--but I didn't build them so don't know the ins and outs of how they got things going... Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:17 PM Subject: Re: Installing Windows was: speakup is nice > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net> >>> Windows doesn't have SATA drivers? How quaint? > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 05:28:05PM -0600, Nick Dotson wrote: >> Wrong! I'm using them under XP Home Pro and Vista. > > Vista does have sata drivers as far as I know. Xp home and pro are a > different story though, because they don't in fact come with sata > drivers. From what I know, the way to install xp onto a system with > only sata controllers is to get the drivers for that controller for xp > from the manufacturer, and choose the option during xp install that > lets you add additional drivers, before xp goes searching for drives, > and doing the rest of the install. I do stand to be corrected here > though, but that's what I know. > > Things might have changed for a xp cd with sp3 integrated, but it > would surprise me if that's actually the case. > > Greg > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkmA9bcACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyCgAwCggZmRwY+E3lQGRFPQXnxS6DXe > Jw0An1fw65hYGgfFXUtlQh5RWAbFFF7S > =G5T3 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.10.14/1920 - Release Date: 1/27/2009 6:15 PM
