Reformat SATA harddrive

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.

Usually a solo SATA drive doesnt require the F6 option..Some do,for details
go
to:http:support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-010695.htm
Details on SATA & RAID are outlined for youre install.

"Feelgood1976" wrote:

> 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.
>

Whether you have to install sata/raid drivers, via F6 may depend on your
mobo

"Feelgood1976" <Feelgood1976@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4E8A0572-D12C-4EB4-9AB1-D0C6F6CB82FA@microsoft.com...
> 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.
>