Booting from a pci sata controller

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I have a WD raptor drive that I want to install in an older system. The board doesn't have sata ports, so I went and bought a pci sata controller card. It turned out to be a RAID card as well. I put in the card and the drive, and all is well. The card and the drive are detected and I can see the files I have in the raptor drive. I have two other drives in the system. They are both pata drives of course. One is used as a data only drive, and the other is partitioned into two partitions. One partition has windows xp and the other has windows vista. What I want to do is to get rid of the two OS's and do a fresh xp install on the raptor drive.

It should be easy, but there is something I want to make sure of. When I boot using winxp cd, will the raptor drive be detected?

The windows copy I have is slipstreamed with sp2.

Thanks.
 
you will need to install the PCI SATA card's drivers before you can install.

You may also need to change the boot order in the BIOS to properly boot off the addon card. The setting may say something along the lines of SCSI or RAID. Mine does, atleast.
 
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