Sata ?

I just built two Neo2 Platinum systems with XP Pro on a Maxtor IDE
drive. Now one of the people I built it for wants to add one Sata drive,
non raid (obviously). Windows stays on the IDE drive. I did not install
sata drivers during XP install. Will XP recognize the Sata drive and can
it be partitioned and formated through XP?

Thanks,
Bill

I don't remember Windows doing anything different because my only drive was
SATA (therefore without RAID).

My 915G boards BIOS SATA setting offers IDE, AHCI or RAID. I left it on
IDE.

You posted a week ago, any solutions yet?

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John
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"BF" <b123f.DeleteThis@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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 >I just built two Neo2 Platinum systems with XP Pro on a Maxtor IDE drive.
 >Now one of the people I built it for wants to add one Sata drive, non raid
 >(obviously). Windows stays on the IDE drive. I did not install sata
 >drivers during XP install. Will XP recognize the Sata drive and can it be
 >partitioned and formated through XP?
 >
 > Thanks,
 > Bill<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->