On Tuesday 28 September 2004 16:58, Kevin Anderson wrote: > It gets better. So far, the "recommended" way on most forums is to install > onto a PATA drive, and then GHOST it onto the SATA drive. > > I've found a thread that seems to point to some other experimental drivers > that might work... But geez... > > Kev. > > On Tuesday 28 September 2004 16:29, Kevin Anderson wrote: > > So I'm installing XP on a brand new machine (at work). > > > > Athlon 64 3500+, SATA Drives, etc. > > > > The boxes don't have floppies, because we won't need them. > > > > So I'm installing XP, and it doesn't have a driver for SATA. > > > > and can I load it from a cdrom? NO, of course not... > > > > This is Windows XP 64bit edition. Bleeding edge MS code. > > And it can't be installed on a legacy-free system. > > > > But thankfully, Moms and pops all over the world find that Windows is far > > easier to install.?!?!?!? > > > > I haven't heard that in a while, and now I see why. > > > > Kev.
LOL, A while ago I had to work on an XP laptop, superficially the same as older MS, just different enough to screw up everything you *thought* you knew. Nice to know the error messages are as good as ever........ "an unexpected error has occurred" *really* helpfull. Graham _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca

