***OFFICIAL Asus P5K-E/WiFi Thread

[Raver]

Booting from SATA worked for me with XP so it should be ok with Vista as well.

Thanx Rocket.

How is it displayed in BIOS, SATA DVD or something similar, and you can confirm you are using a SATA cable right?

Yes.

I confirm that.

In Bios im using IDE.

The 2 drivers, im using IDE cables.

All HD are Sata.

Mordorr

Thanx Mordorr.

But I need to know if I can use a SATA DVD-RW connected to either the red or black SATA connectors on the motherboard, and boot off of it, so that I can either clean install XP or Vista.

In otherwords I want to not have to use an IDE DVD drive, I want my IDE port to be connected to 2 WD205Gig IDE HD's.

And I'll be using 1 WD Raptor for my OS.

to the both of you on which SATA ports do you recommend me connecting my SATA DVD-RW drive and my WD Raptor, the Raptor will be in single mode not RAID.

Thank you in advance for your answers