Long life to a HP Proliant!

Well said Yodap.

Do or do not, there is no try.

What do you do if you don't have floppy discs? My XP Media Center discs has only IDE drivers, and no SATA ones. Is there a way to do this by a USB thumb drive?

BTW, welcome to the forum! I just noticed this was your first post. Hope that you enjoy it here, it is a great place to learn, in a friendly environment.

Best of Luck,
Cat

All I can say is that I set my bios to SATA, that was all I did, I did not need to install anything else. This is with XP SP2. Upgraded to SP3 after up and running.

Will be different with other MoBo and other variables but that is how it panned out for me. Can only comment on my own personal expereince.

I have never did any adjustments in the BIOS, except enabled the option for virtual machines to work properly. I forget the exact name for it.

So, in modern computers, does this option to emulate IDE exist? And if so, once finished, do you go back and reset it to the way it was?

And finally, is this the hump that I need to get over to install XP Media Center on here? I have no floppies, nor is there a place for them, and if there were, I don't even know how to use them. Although I've used computers on my job, when I worked, it wasn't until 2000 when I finally had my very own notebook, with Win 2K Pro installed on it.

I've done everything that was suggested, formatting the partition as NTFS prior to attempting the install, nothing has worked. What I was going to do was, using a backup image taken with Macrium, installing the OS on here through the backup and hope that it'll boot, with startup repair. Problem is, all of those Dell drivers on the OS concerns me. And still no SATA controller installed on the OS.

Any suggestions?

Cat

Cat, can't you just burn it to a CD? What does the directory structure (folders and sub-folders look like currently? Could you show a fully expanded screenshot or the windows explorer directory for the XP install disc(s)? Also you would burn the drivers to a separate CD and insert when requested.

Yes, I can burn my original SATA driver to CD, but what do I do with it? Will the install process stop if I eject the install CD to do this?

I don't know how to post these screenshots of these things, that's something that I need to learn how to do, it was only a few months back that I learned how to make paragraphs. My posts used to look bad, everything being in one huge one.

I could stand to go to the local community college to learn these things, they have short courses. Something that I need to do, if it's not too expensive.

Cat

Well I haven't done it in ages but it always used to be smart enough that when you tell it to browse for driver you pop in the other CD and then when it needs the original it says please insert XP yada yada.

Thanks, I'll have to give that a shot later in the week. I have my hands tied up installing another OS (XP Mode). As soon as I'm finished and backed up, I'll see if it'll work. When you install XP Media Center, you have to use three different CD's anyway, so one more won't make much difference.

Cat