Can SATA drive be used for boot drive in Win2000?

[MplsBob]

I am running an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard with an XP2700 cpu and 1.5gig of memory.

I have a 74GB Raptor drive I would like to use as the boot drive. I have tried about everything I can think of and am stumped? Fortunately I have backups on a USB hard drive. I have had to use that already to pick up the pieces after one less than inspired thought resulted in damage to the current C-drive's contents.

How would a person go about using the Raptor as a boot drive? Perhaps more important, can it even be done?

Thanks in advance!

BobM

 

[TonyRic]

yes, you will just need to load the drivers at the beginning of the installation.

 

[MplsBob]

What drivers are you talking about? The Sata driver? And do I have to signify that one of its associated drives to to be the C-drive?

In short what is the process I would have to go through? Please include some details.


The raid is based upon Silicon Image's SATARaid that is on the motherboard. I don't want a RAID set up and am treating the two SATA drives as just two ordinary drives.

 

[TonyRic]

Yes, the sata driver. When you boot from CD, there is a message on the bottom of the screen (watch or you will miss it) to press F6 to load additional drivers. You will be prompted to insert the floppy disk from the manufacturer. Then you will proceed with the normal install process.

 

[MplsBob]

Now I understand. I will do exactly that.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

i would leave the other drives unhooked while doing it.