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Did my SATA HDD install go right or wrong

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Lmronby

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This is my first try at SATA. I made the driver floppy (Abit IS7 motherboard) put the floppy and Windows disk in the drives and started up. I walked away and missed the part asking me to hit F6, but when I came back I saw the screen asking me how to partition all that new space. I figured the windows install automatically found the drivers and went from there. Windows installed 100% and I am using the new drive now. Just concerned if I should do the install over b4 I install all my apps and restore my backup files. Tks in advance.

 
there are many flavors of SATA
On board (chipset) VIA Nvidia Intel etc.
Third party (separate chip) Promise Marvel Silicon Image VIA etc.

You obviously are using SP2
Win XP SP2 is the first XP vers that had SATA drivers in the install files
MOST of the time SP2 will not need the floppy, but one should always check in device manager under SATA (SCSI) controllers that the drivers you actually want have been installed if it came off CD.
 
I wouldn't have given the whole thing much thought except I get some hiccups in windows behavior. Not running as smooth as I am used to. The new SATA drive is the only thing that has changed.

I checked under device manager and I do not have an entry for SATA controllers. I clearly see IDE ATA/Atapi however. Any way to install the drivers now, or should I slick and reinstall?
 
SATA is seen as SCSI (serial interface) in Dev man
If (some) SATA drivers were not installed, you wouldnt be booting
reinstall and use f6 to be sure to install drivers specific to your mobo/date
or you could use the driver update option when you find the entry in dev man and steer to floppy
 
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