Apparently this is the only blog entry from my old site that was missed - so here it is again!
Given the amount of looking around I had to do to find out the correct sequence of events to get XP installed on a 200GB SATA drive, I thought I'd post the steps I've taken to get it on there.
All in all it went pretty flawlessly, but I don't know if that's a factor of the amount of research I did beforehand on the correct steps. So on to what I did:
- Installed the drive in to the cage and plugged in the red SATA cable that came with the motherboard (MSI KT6V) and the power connector that came directly from my new power supply. I also disconnected my existing PATA drive (Western Digital WD800JB, 80GB/8MB Cache)
- Went in to the BIOS settings and ensured that the boot order was CDROM, BBS-0 (why BBS I'll never know, but my Maxtor disk appeared there).
- Put in a MaxBlast3 floppy disk (I tried using the bootable CD but I use a USB mouse and it wasn't happy for some reason) and formatted the new drive as one big 200GB NTFS partition (I do video editing using EditStudio and DVD-LAB so I prefer NTFS for big capture files)
- Installed a slipstreamed SP2 verson of XP Pro (apparently you have to use at least an SP1 version of XP to install on to SATA properly - however I wasn't willing to take the time to test with and without)
- At the appropriate time hit F6 to install a SCSI/RAID driver (SATA apparently appears as a SCSI disk) and put in the disk that came with my motherboard.
- Chose to leave the filesystem intact and installed as per normal.
- After booting in to Window for the first time I then installed the Maxtor Big Drive Enabler and everything seemed fine.
- Since then I've rebooted lots of times and all seems fine (currently have about 20GB free after a large capture from Sky+ so I guess I'm past the 137GB limit :-) )
- The only outstanding issue is that after reinstalling my WD drive, I can't boot in to Gentoo using XP's boot loader - only by using the F11 boot menu. For more information, see this Gentoo Forums Thread.
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