SATA HD... hates my Creative sound card?

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I know... lame title!! But that's my problem!!

Q1: Should I use my existing IDE (C drive and all)... for Win XP ? or use SATA as the primary and IDE as secondary? (for storage)

Q2: When I install Win XP in my SATA (as C drive)... somehow my Creative Sound card won't get installed, the installer fails to initiate !!

HELP... and does it make a huge diff? SATA as Primary Vs. Ide as Primary ?

have you tried with an other installation disc of XP or Vista.

install xp on SATA making it as primary. SATA is much more faster than IDE and that makes difference.
try changing the slot of sound card and SATA.

Ya. Install your os in sata & configure it as primary.

As for sound card have you tried the latest drivers.