D-oh! :mrgreen:
Seriously though- glad you found the fix.

Good find- the card is made by a Chinese manufacturere named "Sanxi". Unfortunately, their web site is basically horrendous, probably even more so since I'm trying to navigate the English version of...

The "ULI M5285" number is only the identifier for the main controller chip on your card; I'll need at least a brand name for the card itself in order to help you find the right driver software. Look...

Windows doesn't recognize your SATA card, so you'll need to load the card's drivers (probably from floppy) at the appropriate point in the Windows installation procedure.

If you give us the exact...

Even though it seems like you're doing everything correctly, this still sounds like the classic problem of burning the CDs in the wrong format.

Let's verify a couple of things:

1. When you...

Error 39 is one of the error codes associated with the Registry issue I've mentioned, and the fact that you're getting the error for both drives simultaneously makes it less likely that the drivers...

Please post the exact errors from Device Manager, including the error codes (if they're given).
If you read the Microsoft article referenced in the post I linked to above, you'll see that certain...

Are the drives listed in Device Manager, and if so, are they reported to be working properly?

Also- there is a documented problem with "disappearing" CD/DVD devices in Windows. Please see this...

An explanation and fix for the most common cause of what you describe can be found here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q270008/

Although the article pertains to Win 2000, I've seen the...

OK- we'll be here... :)

It depends on the make of BIOS you have, but basically you have to hit a certain key just as the computer is booting up (before Windows starts) to enter the BIOS setup. Some common BIOS access keys...

lol.
Christian- that's almost exactly how I prefer to do my builds. Using a multi-partition scheme definitely has it's benefits (but it isn't something I usually recommend to someone who's new to...

Yeah, 5G should do for any version of Linux if your just starting to experiment. Another option is to put another small, cheap drive in your system and install Linux on that. Linux isn't fussy about...

From the horse's mouth
(https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-steps-partitioning.html)
"A personal desktop installation, including a graphical desktop...

Currently RH 7.3, RH 9.0, and Mandy 8.0.

(But who knows- that could change tomorrow... :mrgreen: )

BTW: If you install Linux on a system which already runs some version of Windows, it's a...

One of my clients' drives recently went south in that sort of way. No Windows-based solutions would let me access the drive in any way, even in two of my Windows machines.

The only way I was...