VMware on Feisty and HP nc8230

[Rick Knight]

Hello all,

I need some help with Feisty and VMware. I have an HP nc8230 notebook 
that I've installed Feisty 7.04 on. This was a clean install on a 
formatted drive, not an upgrade. Before Feisty I had Dapper 6.06 and 
also Dapper's predecessor 5.04 (I think). When I installed Feisty, 
Feisty decided my hdd is SATA. Prior versions have always detected it as 
IDE. Not a problem as everything seems to work. Except VMware. I want to 
use my WinXP partition as a VMware image, but VMware does not support a 
physical partiton as an image on a SATA drive.

My questions are, why did Feisty decide to treat my drive as SATA, and 
(how) can I get Feisty to see it as IDE?

Thanks for any help.

Rick