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Old June 6th 04, 04:30 PM
Ken K
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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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Old June 6th 04, 08:58 PM
Paul H
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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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Old June 6th 04, 11:02 PM
Ken K
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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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Old June 7th 04, 12:52 AM
RaiderNation
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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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Old June 7th 04, 04:57 AM
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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Old June 9th 04, 04:22 AM
William
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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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Old June 9th 04, 05:21 AM
Ken K
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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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