XP Won't boot after SATA drive added

Hi
I've just added a Seagate SATA drive thru a silicon controller PCI card.
The card drivers are OK but XP does not boot when the sata drive is plugged
in.
If I take out the cable XP will boot - then i can plug it back in and the
drive is there.
I have a dual boot XP and 98SE - win 98 works fine but i cannot boot from my
original IDE drive where XP resides.

The boot menu in bios points to the ide drive and nothing else but the pci
based sata drive is where it tries to boot from every time.

Any help much appreciated.

Darren

Asus P4PE
Silicon SATA PCI card
Seagate Barracuda 160gb SATA drive

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:54:50 -0000, "Darren Newman"
wrote:

Hi
I've just added a Seagate SATA drive thru a silicon controller PCI card.
The card drivers are OK but XP does not boot when the sata drive is plugged
in.
If I take out the cable XP will boot - then i can plug it back in and the
drive is there.
I have a dual boot XP and 98SE - win 98 works fine but i cannot boot from my
original IDE drive where XP resides.

The boot menu in bios points to the ide drive and nothing else but the pci
based sata drive is where it tries to boot from every time.

Any help much appreciated.


When posting about problems, it's always a good idea to give more detail,
particularly, what messages you are getting. This helps us narrow down
what your problem might be.

As it is, we can only guess based on your sketchy information.

I'll make one guess and assume that you're getting a message that it can't
find Windows (now I know that's not the exact message, but I'm not about to
mess with my system to generate this message just to find the exact one).
However, if that's the message you're getting, then....

One of the main things to consider with 2000 or XP is that they have a
hidden-system file called "boot.ini" that gives the low-level hardware path
that is used by Windows early on in the boot process to find your OS.

When you add new drives that appear *earlier* in the hardware sequencing,
it causes some of those indices in boot.ini to increment (though boot.ini
itself does not change automatically). You've got to be VERY careful in
changing this file because if you mess it up, you're sunk. I'd always
create a recovery disk (floppy) prior to making any boot.ini changes. That
way you can boot off of your XP CD and go into recovery mode to fix any
problems.


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