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well just found a way around it. there is a jumper setting that lets me run teh HDD as a SATA and not a SATA II. It worked but i will only get 1.5gb/s transfer as oppose to teh 3gb/s of sata II.

o crap i guess i gotta talk to newegg customer support about trading this for a SATA then. thanx for the help, it is much appreciated.

nope that did not work either. do i need a special card or something to run SATA II on my mobo.

ok i took my whole computer apart and removed all the dust and put it back together and the floopy drive started working. thanx as for teh SATA II driver, i checked ASUS's site and they dont have anything up. so i have to presume that you dont need a seperate driver for SATA II. As for trying to load the SCSI controler using a floopy. I did it and still no luck on XP detecting my new HDD.

well the reason i switched to slipstream is because my floopy drive has stopped working. for some reason my floppy drive won’t recognize any floppies, I bought a new floppy drive of newegg.com and installed it thinking the old one might have gone bad, but even the new one won’t recognize any floppies. I know the floopy is good cause it works on my external USB floopy drive and i dont think i can use the USB floopy drive while installing windows. do i need a seperate driver for SATA II. while making my XP CD i just used the driver packs provided on this forum.

I read through this site yesterday and created a bootable XP pro CD with slipstream dirvers using nlite. now i have 2 HDD's. the cd seems to work fine with my western digital 200GB SATA HDD (it recognizes the HDD when it is the only hdd connected to the system ). I am wanting to install XP pro on my new HDD which is s western digital 250 GB SATA II HDD, but the new HDD is not being recognized by xp. if i have both the HDDs connected then the setup says it cannot detect any HDDs connected to my system. i am unable to fix the problem, any help would be much appreciated. My system: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (newcastle) Asus K8V SE Deluxe ATI Radeon X800XT PE 200GB WESTERN DIGITAL SATA 250GB WESTERN DIGITAL SATA II Audigy 2 + Megaworks 650 6.1 OCZ EL 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200 Kingwin KT-424-BK-WM Aluminum Mid-Tower ATX TTGI FS-550TS 550W Mirrored Power supply Title Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on. --Zxian