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Old 10-03-2006, 19:27   #3
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Re: A question on SATA...
To the 1st question, yes. You can use IDE and SATA drives at the same time. 2nd question, no. Drivers for your SATA controller, which is built into your motherboard or an add-on card are included with the motherboard/system. You have to press F6 when prompted after booting off the XP cd for a new install to a SATA drive, unless your motherboard BIOS support IDE emulation, in which many cases the SATA drive is seen as a IDE drive by the XP installation.
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