[Installing XP on a SATA drive (stick with me)]

hmm. well first off, im doing raid 0 on the 160s. but when i put that raided "drive" on the top of my harddrive list, and try to boot off of it, i get an error telling me to pick a proper boot device. Drazick, I'm not totally sure what slipstreaming or nLite are, but I'll look into it. Thanks guys. I'll post back when I try all this.

[Installing XP on a SATA drive (stick with me)]

bump? can anyone help me out? i have no clue whats goin wrong

[Installing XP on a SATA drive (stick with me)]

Whats the Brand/Model of the motherboard? Why can't you use IDE Hard Drive (PATA)? A lot less headaches with the well established IDE/PATA drives...

okay, new problem. I actually saw this before reading your reply here and realized that could be it, so yeah, you were right. but the new problem is that I cant get back to Vista now. I am running XP x64 version right now on one of my 100GB drives (the other 100GB has random music etc), and I have Vista on my raided 160GBs (all these drives i mentioned are SATA). For some reason, I cant boot off of the raided 160s to get on vista anymore. it tells me to select a proper boot device. I cant remember how I set my raided 160s as being a boot drive. how do i do this?

oh, btw, my motherboard is an ASUS P5W DH Deluxe

and thanks again all

edit: oh thinkster, nvm, i misread what you were saying. but either way, i have the hard drives i have, and im not buying new ones at this point lol

[Installing XP on a SATA drive (stick with me)]

Okay, I know there are questions all the time about how to install XP on a SATA drive. However, every answer I have come by is assuming there are SATA drivers on their motherboard's CD. My motherboard, however, came with built-in raid support, and therefore there is no driver for SATA drives to install during my XP installation. Any help? I could really use it ><