If I reinstall XP on my sata drive.. question

[plagiarist]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...hreadid=1449141&enterthread=y&arctab=y

Will I have to re-endure all that? Or will the bios settings stand? I figure I'll just have to make the driver floppy again (lost it) and load into windows on the install.

 

[stevty2889]

Formating the hard drive and re-installing windows has absolutly no effect on bios settings, so as long as you have the driver floppy ready, or do a slipstream(which is what I did, I don't like having to use a floppy drive), then it should be no trouble.

 

[plagiarist]

I can slipstream my sata drivers into my XP cd that I'm making? I put SP2 into my SP1 xp install, so hmm.. I can add the drivers too?

 

[stevty2889]

Yep, you can slipstream in the SATA controller drivers as well. I have my raptors in Raid-0, so I slip streamed in the SATA raid drives with SP2, and now I don't need a floppy anymore, and it recognizes the SATA raid array with out me having to do anything.