Herbert Graf wrote:
> Not necessarily.
>
> It depends on your system. Most systems I've installed XP on with SATA
> drives didn't require anything special during the install. The SATA
> drive is support by the BIOS, and the generic drivers included with XP
> will usually be enough to get the install to complete.
>
> AFTER the install is complete it's wise to install the specific SATA
> drivers for performance reasons, but I've never needed to do that at
> install time with modern systems.

A mate of mine had a laptop with Vista on it. I kept hounding him to 
stick XP on it so eventually he brought his laptop around to me one day. 
I wiped it, stuck in the XP CD, booted it up... but it couldn't find a 
harddisk.

He needed the laptop by later in the day so he ended up just installing 
Vista back on it  >:(

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