Win98SE on a SATA hard drive

[AudioVideoMaster]

Hey all.

I've been looking at the new SATA hard drives mostly because they have smaller and thinner cables between themseves and the moutherboard. I want to get rid of some of the clutter inside of my case by switching to SATA stuff pretty much.

I have an ASUS P4P800PE motherboard that has SATA connectors on the board all ready.

Currently I'm dual booting Win98SE and WinXP Pro on two hard drives separately. One operating system per regular IDE hard drive currently.

The problem I've begun to ponder and search for is weither Windows 98 2nd edition can see a SATA hard drive?? I've looked with google in places but never can get a specific similar situation solution. (Say that 3 times fast) :D

**Yes I want to keep the Win98SE OS on my system... its saved me a few times due to XP's "stupidness" at times.

Will it work... any experiences?

[Angelus]

Hi since you haven't had any replys I did a quick google search to see what I could dig up. It seems that unlike Windows 2000 and XP, Windows 98 does not have an option during the install to press F6 and install a driver for the SATA controller. On a forum I read that it is possible to have SATA drives on Windows 98 but it's some type of 3-step process, which should be able to be downloaded by whoever made your hard drives. So I would suggest looking at the manufactor's website and see if they have a specific application or something for Windows 98 installs.

One good place to look for computer problems and solutions is this forum:
http://forum.pcmech.com/
It was is one of my PcMag's and was highly recommended. I did a quick search there too for "sata windows 98" and got several hits. Hope I was some help at least.