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New SATA drive not "seen" P4PE
I have a P4PE with SATA connectors. I have installed a new Hitachi
120GB hdd and have tried to have it recognized by enabling the SATA/RAID controller and enabling ATA onboard first options but to no avail. On POST the Primary drive reports None. The drive is a mirror of an IDE drive and is replete with OS and files. I can "see" that these files are all there when I have gone into Win2000 Command Console but I cannot get the drive to boot, presumably because it is not recognized. Before I go further, I would like to know if there are any other BIOS settings that I need to tweak. For example, does it do anything to a SATA drive if I define the Primary Hard drive specs (cylinders, etc.) or does that only pertain to the hdd on the Primary IDE connector? Thanks Ken K |
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you need to install the Windows SATA drivers for the drive to be seen - make
a disc with the drivers on and then do a repair install of XP on the SATA drive (assuming you are using XP) pressing f6 and pointing windows at the floppy at the appropriate time |
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Paul H wrote:
you need to install the Windows SATA drivers for the drive to be seen - make a disc with the drivers on and then do a repair install of XP on the SATA drive (assuming you are using XP) pressing f6 and pointing windows at the floppy at the appropriate time Paul, I am using Win2000. I have the driver disk and installed it at F6 when the appropriate time was indicated during the setup. The disk was read, I was then asked if there were additional drivers that needed to be installed, which there were not, and I completed the repair. On boot, the drive is still not recognized. I can boot with a floppy that has the boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect.com files but with those same files on the hdd, the OS will not load. I am wondering why the disk is not recognized by BIOS on boot... I have tried it as a single disk RAID0 and it is recognized by the Promise controller BIOS, but no boot. Very confusing to me... Any other thoughts? Thanks Ken K |
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Did you make a partition on the drive ??
Windows needs a partition to see the drive. "Ken K" wrote in message ... Paul H wrote: you need to install the Windows SATA drivers for the drive to be seen - make a disc with the drivers on and then do a repair install of XP on the SATA drive (assuming you are using XP) pressing f6 and pointing windows at the floppy at the appropriate time Paul, I am using Win2000. I have the driver disk and installed it at F6 when the appropriate time was indicated during the setup. The disk was read, I was then asked if there were additional drivers that needed to be installed, which there were not, and I completed the repair. On boot, the drive is still not recognized. I can boot with a floppy that has the boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect.com files but with those same files on the hdd, the OS will not load. I am wondering why the disk is not recognized by BIOS on boot... I have tried it as a single disk RAID0 and it is recognized by the Promise controller BIOS, but no boot. Very confusing to me... Any other thoughts? Thanks Ken K |
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The drive is a mirrored drive. It has identical partitions with c:, d:,
and e: drives like the identical drive. My understanding is that its structure should be identican to the origina drive. Once the floppy points it to the c: drive, all goes well. I just can't figure out what is missing in either the BIOS settings or on the drive that the identical files on the hdd aren't found and there needs to be a floppy to point to the c: drive. Thanks Ken RaiderNation wrote: Did you make a partition on the drive ?? Windows needs a partition to see the drive. "Ken K" wrote in message ... Paul H wrote: you need to install the Windows SATA drivers for the drive to be seen - make a disc with the drivers on and then do a repair install of XP on the SATA drive (assuming you are using XP) pressing f6 and pointing windows at the floppy at the appropriate time Paul, I am using Win2000. I have the driver disk and installed it at F6 when the appropriate time was indicated during the setup. The disk was read, I was then asked if there were additional drivers that needed to be installed, which there were not, and I completed the repair. On boot, the drive is still not recognized. I can boot with a floppy that has the boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect.com files but with those same files on the hdd, the OS will not load. I am wondering why the disk is not recognized by BIOS on boot... I have tried it as a single disk RAID0 and it is recognized by the Promise controller BIOS, but no boot. Very confusing to me... Any other thoughts? Thanks Ken K |
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"RaiderNation" wrote in message ... Did you make a partition on the drive ?? Windows needs a partition to see the drive. "Ken K" wrote in message ... Paul H wrote: you need to install the Windows SATA drivers for the drive to be seen - make a disc with the drivers on and then do a repair install of XP on the SATA drive (assuming you are using XP) pressing f6 and pointing windows at the floppy at the appropriate time Paul, I am using Win2000. I have the driver disk and installed it at F6 when the appropriate time was indicated during the setup. The disk was read, I was then asked if there were additional drivers that needed to be installed, which there were not, and I completed the repair. On boot, the drive is still not recognized. I can boot with a floppy that has the boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect.com files but with those same files on the hdd, the OS will not load. I am wondering why the disk is not recognized by BIOS on boot... I have tried it as a single disk RAID0 and it is recognized by the Promise controller BIOS, but no boot. Very confusing to me... Any other thoughts? Thanks Ken K the raid drivers are on the mother board driver cd you need to copy the raid driver for windows 2000 to a disk and use that disk when asked for any special drivers . |
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William wrote: "RaiderNation" wrote in message ... Did you make a partition on the drive ?? Windows needs a partition to see the drive. "Ken K" wrote in message ... Paul H wrote: you need to install the Windows SATA drivers for the drive to be seen - make a disc with the drivers on and then do a repair install of XP on the SATA drive (assuming you are using XP) pressing f6 and pointing windows at the floppy at the appropriate time Paul, I am using Win2000. I have the driver disk and installed it at F6 when the appropriate time was indicated during the setup. The disk was read, I was then asked if there were additional drivers that needed to be installed, which there were not, and I completed the repair. On boot, the drive is still not recognized. I can boot with a floppy that has the boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect.com files but with those same files on the hdd, the OS will not load. I am wondering why the disk is not recognized by BIOS on boot... I have tried it as a single disk RAID0 and it is recognized by the Promise controller BIOS, but no boot. Very confusing to me... Any other thoughts? Thanks Ken K the raid drivers are on the mother board driver cd you need to copy the raid driver for windows 2000 to a disk and use that disk when asked for any special drivers . Yes, that is what I had thought that I had explained above.... |
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