HAY GUYS

LiquidAcid · Local time: Oct 1, 2007, 12:51 PM

Get drivers for the SATA controller and slipstream them into the install disc, preferably a SP2 disc. Or put them on a usb stick and enable USB legacy support so the install routine can access the stick without drivers.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

LiquidAcid · Local time: Oct 1, 2007, 07:31 PM

You should reinstall it with native SATA. I don't see any way to switch IDE drivers now that the system is up (at least when dealing with windows).

There's nowhere I can't reach.

LiquidAcid · Local time: Oct 2, 2007, 12:12 PM

What do you mean by 'read'? Does the system not boot from the windows disc or what?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

LiquidAcid · Local time: Oct 2, 2007, 03:12 PM

Of course you don't.

You installed XP on a system with PATA emulation enabled, now the system kernel is configured to use PATA. If you now switch to native ATA the kernel won't boot.
And you can't install the drivers as long as PATA emulation is enabled.

So you have to install XP with native SATA. If you can't boot with the disc, then try another one. Or first test if booting from CD works at all if SATA is on (I doubt it doesn't work)

You should also explain what you mean by 'not boot'. Does the BIOS fail to detect the disc or does the discs bootloader work, etc.
There are too many possibilities here.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

LiquidAcid · Local time: Oct 2, 2007, 06:55 PM

OK, so the windows install disc does boot but the install process fails.

That's better than a disc does isn't even detected as bootable by the BIOS.
Now check if you have some option like USB legacy support in your BIOS. That enables that USB mass storage devices can be seen by the OS without a driver for the USB controller. Then search the SATA drivers for your controller on the net and out them on a USB stick, best formatted with FAT32.
When booting the windows install disc it should ask you for a short momentan to press some key if you want to install additional system drivers. You should hit that key fast and guide the installation routine to the drive that's assigned to the usb stick. It should find the SATA drivers, integrated them into the install process and also load them. This way the harddrive, now in SATA mode, should show up in the partition manager of the installation.

I was speaking idiomatically.