new to SATA HD ?

[p.i.m.p]

i've installed a 1.5TB Seagate HD, Win XP Pro installed but i can't install my mobo drv all the way. 2 Things not being installed are SM BUS and Ethernet drv (latest drv from nvidia) tried old drv 5.10 nForce and no go. I ran the setup it starts up the installer and won't go any farther (that goes for newest and old drv then the inst just quits setup/install.)

so for now i'm using the 1.5TB as a storage on SATA and 80GIG as main on PATA

whats going on?

 

[InvisiBill]

If Windows installed on the SATA drive properly, then the problem isn't with your drive. The only caveat with installing XP to a SATA drive is usually the SATA controller's driver isn't included in the default install, so you either need to slipstream the driver in or press F6 during setup to include it. If the install completed successfully on the new drive, then obviously the drive is installed and working ok. Your problems are not related to the drive being SATA.