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I read a user's review of a SATA CD/DVD recorder and he make the following statement "Only problem that was a factor is if you need to reinstall windows on your system its not going to work with this drive, you need a PATA drive for that."

 This is the first time I have heard of this.  Is it really so?  I plan to place two SATA drives in my upcoming build and I don't understand how it makes any difference whether they are SATA or PATA.

I installed Vista Home Premium 32-bit (w/ SP1) on my new build with nothing but a SATA optical drive.  It's this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135156

With old edition windows OS disk, you need firstly install sata driver from floppy, or the

system can not automatically detect new devices. However, the latest OS installation disk

contains the driver in it, so you needn’t install it from floppy and it can work once installed.

You can refer this to fix your problem

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Install-Windows-XP-On-SATA-Without-a-Floppy-F6-47807.shtml

Or you can also purchase the latest OS installation disk, which includes the sata drivers.

Then you can avoid the problem.

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