coolguy1541

Isn't there something to prevent you from running the recovery disc on multiple cpu's though?

I am using a compaq desktop with AMD athlon64 processor 3500 (running 32bit windows MSE SP3) with 2 gig ram the hard drive is a Western digital 250gig SATA HD - WD2500JS-60MHB1. I did look for some of those bios changes you can make such as changing sata controller from AAHCI to ATA, and doing IDE emulation, but the only thing I saw in my BIOS that resembled any of that was something like an option that said SATA - and it just said compatible I think next to it. Hope this is info you were asking for.

So I have windows xp media center and I've had it for awhile and I want to reformat it, long story short, just to iron out some bugs that have accumulated over the years (yes I've tried other fixes already). But I'm scared to death it's not going to recognize my sata HD and I don't have a diskette drive and I think I would have problems slip streaming it b/c 1. I couldn't find the drivers on the manufact. website and 2. the first dvd recovery disk is full so I'm not sure how that would work if I went ahead and slip streamed up to sp2 or something hoping it would have the drivers, but anyway.....I spent hours researching this problem and my question IS - If I made this recovery disk from my current computer and it still has the same HD in it, wouldn't it have the driver for it? B/c I was fishing around on the disk and it looks like it has a driver for my lightscribe cd burner and video card. But I just thought with all these people on the internet having this problem that they all wouldn't have been people who upgraded their hd. Anyway any help is mucho appreciated