Just installed a BArracuda 160GB Sata. Just downloaded the tools from
Seagate and kept hitting next drive was recognized and all data from C: was
copied over. set it as boot device under BOOT options in bios. The Sata
drive shows as a SCSI drive I now have to reasign drive letters and make XP
think its drive C: I don't think its booting from it though it is the first
boot device in list. Tomorrow morning is it for reassigning drive letters

"Phil Thompson" wrote in message
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I am trying to get a single Samsung SATA 120 GB drive to work as boot
drive for Windows XP on an A7V600-X board.

Thus far I have downloaded the latest VIA drivers for the RAID onboard
VT8237 Southbridge and updated the BIOS. With an IDE drive camped in
we got to see and partition the SATA drive and installed a copy of
Windows XP Home to it starting from the version running on the IDE.

After going nowhere tok the IDE drive out and went to re-install XP
including doing the F6 trick with the latest RAID drivers on a floppy.
XP sets up fine and the first partition of the drive is used OK.

After rebooting without the XP CD in we get stuck as there is no
bootable drive listed. Can't see a way to get the SATA drive on the
boot list. Tried SCSI option but it didn't fly.

Suggestions please for getting single SATA drive in non-RAID config
onto boot menu in BIOS ?

Phil