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Hi,I have a pretty old computer (three years old). Recently my hard drive (IDE) was filled with stuff and I bought a new SATA 2 hard drive to make more space. Unfortantally my motherboard does not seem to support it because it only supports SATA 1.So my solution was simply to buy a SATA host controller (with VIA VT6421 chipset on it), then I connected the SATA 2 drive to the host controller and the drive worked perfectly!I needed to re-install windows xp and I wanted to install it on the SATA-2 drive (instead of the IDE) because it's faster. So I made a SATA host controller driver diskette (from the CD supplied with the controller) according to the instructions from the user manual and booted from the windows xp CD to begin the installaion process. I pressed F6 and then chose the "SCSI SATA host contoller win xp 32bit" driver and the windows installation identified my SATA drive. I then chose then to delete the whole partitions in the two harddisks (the IDE and the SATA-2 drive) and created only one partition to install windows xp in as a fresh copy in the SATA-2 harddisk. After windows installation copied the files and rebooted the computer I changed the boot sequence to boot from the HDE-0 (instead of the CDROM) but I just got an error after the POST test. I tried to change the boot sequence to SCSI and I got another error message.Now my question is how can I boot from the SATA-2 drive that is connected to the SATA host controller in order to complete the windows installation?Thanks in advance,Poao