How to install Windows MCE to a new PC which has only SATA hd

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I'm sure this question has been asked a thousand times already but my search
of the newsgroups does not come with anything recent.

I have just bought an ASUS Pundit barebones PC and a WD Caviar 250gig SATA
drive to go with it.
I am intending to install Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2005 onto it.

The Pundit has the SATA drive installed, a DVD writer but it does not have a
floppy drive and there is no connector to connect one to.

I have seen in other posts that in order to install XP to a SATA drive you
have to press F6 during the install process and install SATA drivers.

I have checked the WD website but can't find any SATA drivers, I've also
checked the Asus website with the same result. There is a driver CD with the
Pundit but I've searched that and the nearest thing I can find there
is a SATA raid controller driver ( strange because the Pundit does not have
raid capability, it can only take a single HD ! )

Can anyone offer help here ?

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Regards

Dave Shepherd
Nottingham, UK.


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