No. What you need to do is ensure you have the following:

An XP CD with SP2 on it (SP1 and earlier will not work).
A floppy diskette with the SATA drivers on it.
An internal floppy drive.



The XP boot CD has no native support for the SATA controller.

You will need:

An XP cd WITH SP2 on it (note: XP or XP SP1 WILL NOT WORK - the install will blue-screen when you load the SATA driver).
An internal (not USB) floppy diskette drive.
The floppy diskette with the SATA OS driver on it (download from support.dell.com).

Boot the XP CD, pause with F6 where indicated, insert the floppy and load the driver. Continue the install.

No floppy drive? You have two options:

Buy one, or
Make a slipstream XP CD with the SATA driver:

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp

HI,

Success!!!!
Thanks for the responses. The suggestion to change the RAID procedure in BIOS worked.

Marty