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I took the eSATA cable off and went back to the USB cable, so now it appears in the icon tray down by the clock and I can easily remove it.

Well, I installed the JMicron file just like you said and now I see it in Device Manager, but I'm still no closer to figuring out how to shut down my external e-SATA drive. How does this perform hot-swap? Can you elaborate more on this? I haven't been able to figure it out. I also took the...

Well I went to a local store and bought Win7 Home Premium Updgrade and now it's fully installed and running great - w00t! Install was a snap. I can't believe how much faster Win7 installed itself as compared to my old XP. I did the custom (full) install now I'm just installing some of my...

MB, thanks for the reply. I discovered you can upgrade a OEM version of XP Home to Win7 so the Win7 Upgrade should work just fine.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I've decided to go with the Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade.

Just wanted to get the geeks opinion on this. Should I go with an OEM version of Windows 7 Home Premium or do the Upgrade? Thanks.

Once again after doing everything you said when we get to the F6 option it will not read anything off the floppy and just keeps asking for the HD manufacturer disc over and over. Thankfully, my friend brought a co-worker home, a young guy with quite a bit of knowledge about computers, and he got...

Yep, thank you. His floppy is already set to that, but we will double check anyway before proceeding. How should we set the boot order - Lite-On drive (which has his OS disc in it), then HD, then floppy?

Refer to my last post with the screenshot. I put my floppy drive back in and copied the files from the SB750 folder onto the floppy. I updated the screenshot. Just to be sure you said to "In the BIOS, go to Integrated Peripherals. Set OnChip SATA Controller to Enabled. Set OnChip SATA Type to...

Well, those are the exact files that will be on the floppy when I get over to his house later today. Like I said I already took the floppy out of my computer. They will be the same either way. I hope by using my floppy drive that it will extract and install those files onto his HD. We've been at...

Thanks mfenn, you've been a big help. I know. I advised him to get Win7 myself, but he's kind of a tightwad (I say that lovingly, lol). I had already taken my floppy drive out of my computer so I just extracted everything into a folder to show you the screenshot.

He doesn't want to shell out the money for a newer OS so I guess he'll just have to deal with the headaches of this "ancient" one for now. Although I have read about people that have had to do this procedure even with Vista and Win7.

Here it is (extracted):

Ok, we'll try it again, but it did not work when we did it the other day (and we had the files on the floppy just as you specified). Hopefully using my floppy drive it will work this time.

We already tried it that way and it didn't work. Are you saying then that the x86 folder should be on the floppy and NOT the x64 folder?