Install Windows Xp On Sata Drive

For a while, motherboard manufacturers added a BIOS option: . This tricked the SATA drive into acting like an old PATA drive. It worked perfectly until Intel dropped support for IDE emulation around the Ivy Bridge/Haswell era (2012-2013). On modern motherboards, that option is gone. You only see AHCI or RAID .

: Restart your computer and tap the Delete , F2 , or F10 key (depending on your motherboard) to enter the BIOS setup. install windows xp on sata drive