dual boot advice

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 31 08:08:28 PST 2012


Prasetia Utama wrote:
> I think, you have inject sata drivers on your xp installer, please see
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00758841&dlc=en&lc=en&cc=us
> ,

Thanks.


> by the way, how you can know my email address ?


Oooooh it's a big secret.
Look at the headers.  I sent a question to the linux-users list.
If you got the post, you're a member of the list.




> 
> 2012/1/31 Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net>
> 
>> Hello;
>>
>> I need to upgrade my dual-boot box with SuSE and XP (i.e. I need a new
>> motherboard).
>>
>> Currently I have an IDE port for the Windows drive and a SATA controller
>> for the linux drives, but most new motherboards have only SATA ports.
>>
>> There is considerable confusion on the web about installing XP on SATA
>> drives, some talk about needing a floppy w/ the SATA driver, some talk
>> about disabling AHCI in BIOS before loading XP.
>>
>> Is there anyone out there that actually knows how to do this properly?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
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