Hi everybody, My problem is the following: my PC has an ASUS P4PE-X motherboard which doesn't serve SATA harddisks so I bought a 500GB SATA disk because it was recommended to me due to "higher speeds" and I bought also relevant SATA HDD controller with 2 outputs. The problem is that when I try to install the system (XP) on it the installer doesn't see that disk at all although is recognised by BIOS durig booting procedure. So I tried once again and pressed F6 to install the additional SCSI controllers whereas I have copied some files from the CD that accompanied the controller on the Floppy Disk. Though it didn't help much - XP installer recognises the controller files but then says that these files cause some error and the installation process ended. My question is what to do so that I can see any SATA disk as if it were regular ATA drive? Thanks a lot in advance for any advice. Zennon

Use the website listed below to slipstream the drivers. You will have to make another xp cd. http://www.nliteos.com/download.html Jim R

"I bought a 500GB SATA disk because it was recommended to me due to "higher speeds" The recommender was not correct Xennon. The SATA interface has a higher 'potential' speed. But at this time a hard drive will run at, more or less, the same speed on PATA and SATA.