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Had a go at installing WIN7. Interesting things happened. This I should say is on my existing XP system. I was intending to install on a spare SATA drive.
Anyway first attempt was with both SATA and IDE drives plugged in, Went for Custom install to specify the drive I wanted (the 2nd SATA one). Up to that stage went ok (this was with XP loaded in background), initially got going with install but then it asked for drivers for the M/B.. These I could not install via a DVD as with the XP O/S running the drivers kept wanting to install to the 'c' drive. So that stopped first attempt.
2nd go was with the 'c' drive unplugged but then the install wanted to default to installing on the IDE drive. So that stopped 2nd attempt.
3rd go was with the IDE and 'c' SATA drive unplugged but then install did not see any drive at all. That stopped 3rd attempt.
4th go was with both SATA drives unplugged and just the IDE left connected, that seemed to be working as this time it did not ask for M/B drivers, I can only assume this was due to it being an IDE drive. However it bombed out before completing install but that was a software issue on the CD.
So in conclusion it seems as if it could be a problem trying to install the O/S on a completely different SATA drive whilst retaining another O/S on another SATA drive. you'd no doubt get around this by just installing the two O/S's on a single drive which ultimately is what I plan to do anyway. Just that my existing drives are not large enough on their own to hold two O/S's
Anyway first attempt was with both SATA and IDE drives plugged in, Went for Custom install to specify the drive I wanted (the 2nd SATA one). Up to that stage went ok (this was with XP loaded in background), initially got going with install but then it asked for drivers for the M/B.. These I could not install via a DVD as with the XP O/S running the drivers kept wanting to install to the 'c' drive. So that stopped first attempt.
2nd go was with the 'c' drive unplugged but then the install wanted to default to installing on the IDE drive. So that stopped 2nd attempt.
3rd go was with the IDE and 'c' SATA drive unplugged but then install did not see any drive at all. That stopped 3rd attempt.
4th go was with both SATA drives unplugged and just the IDE left connected, that seemed to be working as this time it did not ask for M/B drivers, I can only assume this was due to it being an IDE drive. However it bombed out before completing install but that was a software issue on the CD.
So in conclusion it seems as if it could be a problem trying to install the O/S on a completely different SATA drive whilst retaining another O/S on another SATA drive. you'd no doubt get around this by just installing the two O/S's on a single drive which ultimately is what I plan to do anyway. Just that my existing drives are not large enough on their own to hold two O/S's