I returned my Rosewill RC209 SATA CARD and purchased an IDE to SATA Adapter. I am now trying to install Windows XP on my 1TB SATA Western Digital Hard Drive. I am aware that Windows XP cant format on a SATA Drive without SATA Drivers. The problem is my motherboard doesnt support SATA as standard (reason why I bout IDE to SATA Adapter). I have no way of getting drivers for hard drive. XP asks for a floppy diskette but I dont have a floppy drive and I dont know what drivers to get since my motherboard doesnt support SATA. Im stuck. How do I install Windows XP on a SATA Hard Drive thats running off an IDE to SATA Adapter. THANX!!!!!I think that you need the floppy drive and drivers if you are instlling a RAID. I just formatted and installed XP on a SATA hard drive. It installed like it normally does. You should onl need the SATA drivers for install on an array of disks.

Have you tried to install normally?

In the BIOS disable the RAID settings, the SATA drive should be able to emulate EIDE without any loss in performance.My motherboard is the MSI 648 MAX. It does not have any features in the BIOS to allow me to disable RAID. How can I do this?I think you need a PCI or PCI-Express to SATA adapter to do this. If you don't have these ports because you want SLI or CrossFire, use devices with single-slot coolers.Not quite sure i understand...the drive should be recognised as IDE because that's what the MBoard will report it as...
Have you tried the install yet ? ?

What MBoard are we talking about here ? ?

Very early on in Setup at the bottom of the screen you will see a PROMPT "Press F6 to install additional Drivers".....
That's when you put in the media containing the SATA drivers
But this will not help if the MBoard does NOT support SATA.

From a review:
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To be honest we were a bit surprised that MSI doesn't have a version of the 648 MAX-F with onboard IDE RAID
. Since most motherboards in the 648 MAX-F's class will have IDE RAID, it does put the board at a slight disadvantage in terms of the "full check list".