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Boot from SATA HDs? (865PE chipsets)
I was wondering if other makes of motherboards with non-RAID 865PE chipsets support a
"booting" SATA HD(to WinXP)? Especially if there is also a non-booting PATA HD in the system on one of the standard IDE channels? Would this be a BIOS issue or a limitation of the 865PE chipset (non-RAID)? My board's support website has a statement in the FAQ section that says the DFI PS83-BL rev.A does not support a "booting" SATA HD ........ That note was dated back in May 2003. Since then however, they have released 4 BIOS updates for improving lots of other good stuff, but based on my test last night, it looks like I'll have to wait still longer for a BIOS update that gives me the ability to boot from a SATA HD (assuming the 865PE chipset, etc supports that feature). The SATA I bought yesterday works fine as a logical non-booting HD but will not boot if cloned from my current PATA booting drive (using Ghost 2003 in a direct Disk-to-Disk cloning). I need to start pushing DFI's tech support for another BIOS update depending on what feedback I get here. Thanks everybody ....... RR |
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"Ronald Rey" wrote in message news7PYb.347603$xy6.1732678@attbi_s02
I was wondering if other makes of motherboards with non-RAID 865PE chipsets support a "booting" SATA HD(to WinXP)? Especially if there is also a non-booting PATA HD in the system on one of the standard IDE channels? Would this be a BIOS issue or a limitation of the 865PE chipset (non-RAID)? My board's support website has a statement in the FAQ section that says the DFI PS83-BL rev.A does not support a "booting" SATA HD ........ That note was dated back in May 2003. Since then however, they have released 4 BIOS updates for improving lots of other good stuff, but based on my test last night, it looks like I'll have to wait still longer for a BIOS update that gives me the ability to boot from a SATA HD (assuming the 865PE chipset, etc supports that feature). It is a pure bios issue. The SATA I bought yesterday works fine as a logical non-booting HD but will not boot if cloned from my current PATA booting drive (using Ghost 2003 in a direct Disk-to-Disk cloning). Presumably that took place using DOS or something else that uses BIOS so BIOS is enabled for it. Check that Ghost has made the drive's bootpartition active. I need to start pushing DFI's tech support for another BIOS update depending on what feedback I get here. Thanks everybody ....... RR |
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Yes, I ran Ghost 2003 from a bootable Dos floppy but did not check to see if the bootable
partition was set as active. How to I set it as active if it is NTFS? Thanks! "Folkert Rienstra" wrote in message ... "Ronald Rey" wrote in message news7PYb.347603$xy6.1732678@attbi_s02 I was wondering if other makes of motherboards with non-RAID 865PE chipsets support a "booting" SATA HD(to WinXP)? Especially if there is also a non-booting PATA HD in the system on one of the standard IDE channels? Would this be a BIOS issue or a limitation of the 865PE chipset (non-RAID)? My board's support website has a statement in the FAQ section that says the DFI PS83-BL rev.A does not support a "booting" SATA HD ........ That note was dated back in May 2003. Since then however, they have released 4 BIOS updates for improving lots of other good stuff, but based on my test last night, it looks like I'll have to wait still longer for a BIOS update that gives me the ability to boot from a SATA HD (assuming the 865PE chipset, etc supports that feature). It is a pure bios issue. The SATA I bought yesterday works fine as a logical non-booting HD but will not boot if cloned from my current PATA booting drive (using Ghost 2003 in a direct Disk-to-Disk cloning). Presumably that took place using DOS or something else that uses BIOS so BIOS is enabled for it. Check that Ghost has made the drive's bootpartition active. I need to start pushing DFI's tech support for another BIOS update depending on what feedback I get here. Thanks everybody ....... RR |
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"Ronald Rey" wrote in message news:RqWYb.350008$xy6.1756986@attbi_s02
Yes, I ran Ghost 2003 from a bootable Dos floppy but did not check to see if the bootable partition was set as active. How to I set it as active if it is NTFS? Thanks! Exactly the same as if it were FAT. "Folkert Rienstra" wrote in message ... "Ronald Rey" wrote in message news7PYb.347603$xy6.1732678@attbi_s02 I was wondering if other makes of motherboards with non-RAID 865PE chipsets support a "booting" SATA HD(to WinXP)? Especially if there is also a non-booting PATA HD in the system on one of the standard IDE channels? Would this be a BIOS issue or a limitation of the 865PE chipset (non-RAID)? My board's support website has a statement in the FAQ section that says the DFI PS83-BL rev.A does not support a "booting" SATA HD ........ That note was dated back in May 2003. Since then however, they have released 4 BIOS updates for improving lots of other good stuff, but based on my test last night, it looks like I'll have to wait still longer for a BIOS update that gives me the ability to boot from a SATA HD (assuming the 865PE chipset, etc supports that feature). It is a pure bios issue. The SATA I bought yesterday works fine as a logical non-booting HD but will not boot if cloned from my current PATA booting drive (using Ghost 2003 in a direct Disk-to-Disk cloning). Presumably that took place using DOS or something else that uses BIOS so BIOS is enabled for it. Check that Ghost has made the drive's bootpartition active. I need to start pushing DFI's tech support for another BIOS update depending on what feedback I get here. Thanks everybody ....... RR |
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Fdisk will do it. FreeDos fdisk can activate other disks too.
"Ronald Rey" wrote in message news:RqWYb.350008$xy6.1756986@attbi_s02... Yes, I ran Ghost 2003 from a bootable Dos floppy but did not check to see if the bootable partition was set as active. How to I set it as active if it is NTFS? Thanks! |
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Okay thanks ... However I though Ghost 2003 will automatically seat the active partition
when making a complete Disk-to-Disk copy. "Eric Gisin" wrote in message ... Fdisk will do it. FreeDos fdisk can activate other disks too. "Ronald Rey" wrote in message news:RqWYb.350008$xy6.1756986@attbi_s02... Yes, I ran Ghost 2003 from a bootable Dos floppy but did not check to see if the bootable partition was set as active. How to I set it as active if it is NTFS? Thanks! |
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I thought Ghost 2003 will automatically seat the active partition when making a complete
Disk-to-Disk copy. "Eric Gisin" wrote in message ... Fdisk will do it. FreeDos fdisk can activate other disks too. "Ronald Rey" wrote in message news:RqWYb.350008$xy6.1756986@attbi_s02... Yes, I ran Ghost 2003 from a bootable Dos floppy but did not check to see if the bootable partition was set as active. How to I set it as active if it is NTFS? Thanks! |
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