Re: Reformat SATA harddrive

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"Feelgood1976" <Feelgood1976@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

My comp currently have 2 Western D harddrives with several partition on
both
drives. I`m thinking of reformatting and reinstalling my copy of winxp
home
to one of the drives ( with previous installation). My question is:

a) Do I need SATA driver after reformatting the drive? If I remember
correctly SATA drives need additional driver when installing winxp.
b) Can winxp recognize my second drive?
c) Do I need to activate winxp after reinstallation. It looks like that I
still need to activate my winxp. There's no changes to my hardware though.

I just want confirmation after read through this board before proceeding
with the reformatting. Thank you.



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