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Originally Posted by DJofSD
Not to dissaude you but understand the upgrade to a SATA device is going to problematic since XP was pre-SATA.
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I'm not sure why you would think this. I am running XP SP3 on my desktop with a mix of a couple PATA hard drives and two WD 1TB SATA drives. I also have two burners, one PATA and one SATA. In order to make this work I had to buy a PCI PATA controller. (I wanted to keep all of my drives and my board only had one IDE connector, hence the need for the controller card.) Everything was working fine even with SP2.
As vegasone mentioned, installing from SATA can be a problem. It's important to note that because this is drive will be on a PCI card, the drivers won't be available before the OS loads. Access to the burner without Windows being loaded is therefore unlikely.
