jesus, so many problems. the only thing i've encountered with S-ATA's were, when installing, my mobo didnt recongnize it.. so i thought the HD was broken. so during setup you gotta go into f6 to install any RAID drivers (ie. S-ATA) so you put in a boot distk you make from a computer that works..and you should be ready to go. if that doesnt work out.. go to microsoft.com and get the bootdisks on floppy for xp for a complete install, i'll post the links in a few min