Re: Windows XP Hangs at Beginning of Install

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James Egan wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:28:26 -0500, HeyBub wrote:
The "Hard drive" light stays on?

Is this a SATA drive? If so, I'm pretty sure you'll have to
slip-stream the SATA drivers into the installation CD (but some
motherboards have SATA drivers on board).

Can you swap hard drives - preferably to an EIDE drive?


Yes, this is a SATA drive. I don't have an EIDE to swap it. I can't
believe Windows XP just "hangs". Shouldn't it have SATA drive
support?


Uh, no. SATA drives became widely available AFTER XP was released.


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