I was wrong, even though I loaded my SATA drivers off floppy, the XP install does not see my SATA drives. Previously I thought it had but it was seeing my USB external drive. Guess that why i wiped it out when I thought I was deleting my boot partition. Luckily I have multiple backups....

So if I slipstream my SATA drivers on to my XP install CD, that should do it?

thanks

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