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SATA and Windows XP 64-bit

Schadenfroh

Schadenfroh

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Building a new computer soon, going to be a gigabyte nforce3 ultra motherboard. Im going to be using XP 64bit because its free and i dont want to shell out the money for an OS for the new PC. It will have a Raptor hard drive and i do not know how to handle SATA hard drives when doing a fresh install of windows xp 64bit on a SATA drive. Is it the same as for a SIL3112A except i use a differant driver and still load it onto a disk or slipstream it? Or does XP64 able to install on SATA without additional drivers?

thanks
 
Im going to be using XP 64bit because its free and i dont want to shell out the money for an OS for the new PC.
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FYI, It's not free, its a beta, and it will expire at some point.

 
Originally posted by: bsobel
Im going to be using XP 64bit because its free and i dont want to shell out the money for an OS for the new PC.
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FYI, It's not free, its a beta, and it will expire at some point.
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I know that. It expires in 360 days, hopefully XP 64 will be out by then. I am going to use it till the real thing comes out then buy it, i dont want to buy XP and then a few months later buy XP 64.
 
Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
If you get XP Pro you can upgrade to the 64 bit version for free when it comes out.
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link to this? does it work with the academic version of pro?
 
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Building a new computer soon, going to be a gigabyte nforce3 ultra motherboard. Im going to be using XP 64bit because its free and i dont want to shell out the money for an OS for the new PC. It will have a Raptor hard drive and i do not know how to handle SATA hard drives when doing a fresh install of windows xp 64bit on a SATA drive. Is it the same as for a SIL3112A except i use a differant driver and still load it onto a disk or slipstream it? Or does XP64 able to install on SATA without additional drivers?

thanks
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It installs exactly like Win/XP - 32 bit edition. You will need 64 bit SATA drivers (not the same drivers that Win/XP 32 bit edition) on a floppy, or possibly slipstreamed into 64 bit. I haven't tried to slipstream a 64 bit CD, so I don't know if that works or not.
 
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