Re: Issue ~ Sata NTFS Drive Issue


It would really help if you would explain clearly what precisely is the
problem you experience when you undertake a normal boot of your system as
it
affects the situation your SATA HDD. I take it one of your PATA HDDs is
the
boot drive and your SATA HDD is being used as a secondary HDD, right?

<tomwesnick@xxxxxxxxx responds
Well if I undertake a normal boot of the system, during the boot
process the operating system appears to run a chkdsk and repair
function automatically. Upon which I receive the infamous blue screen
of death. Yes on of the two PATA drives serve a my boot drive, the
other is simply storage.

I'm assuming - since you didn't indicate otherwise - that the system
recognizes the SATA HDD and a drive letter has been assigned to it. Is
that
correct? And the drive has been properly partitioned & formatted, yes?

tomwesnick@xxxxxxxxx responds...
The drive has been partitioned and formatted properly, with a drive
letter assigned to it. It was partition in safe mode with no
networking. The drive in question has a capacity 320 GB with one
partition of 1.5 GB.

Are you indicating that there's a BSOD problem when you attempt to access
the contents of your SATA HDD during a normal bootup?

tomwesnick@xxxxxxxxx responds...
That is correct as well as during a safe boot with networking turned
ON. Just to clarify I see the BSOD after the operating system performs
a chkdsk and repair on the 1.5 GB previously partitioned drive in safe
mode.

Is this a new problem or one that's always existed since you installed
the
SATA HDD?

tomwesnick@xxxxxxxxx responds...
Yes, connecting any SATA HDD drive to the onboard controller has given
me problems, to the exception of booting in safe mode without
networking.

Are you certain that you've properly connected & configured the SATA HDD
in
your system? You've reviewed your motherboard's user guide or manual to
determine that all BIOS settings are correct insofar as they pertain to
the
SATA HDD? Any chance a SATA controller driver issue may be involved?

tomwesnick@xxxxxxxxx responds...
Yes, I've checked the BIOS settings numerous times and they are the
ASUS recommend settings.

Think there's any chance the SATA HDD may be defective? Have you checked
it
out with the HDD diagnostic from the disk's manufacturer?

tomwesnick@xxxxxxxxx responds...
Yes, using Seagate's diagnostics tool has not uncover any HDD errors.
If the drive was an issue, how would it be possible for me to access,
copy, paste, and use the partition while in safe mode w/o networking.

I believe what is causing these OS stability problems maybe a NIC
driver, or its PCI position causing an IRQ conflict of sorts. Because
the system is utterly stable in safe mode without the networking
feature turned on.


tomwesnick:
1. What ASUS board is this?
2. Any updated BIOS you should be concerned with? And you've installed all
the motherboard drivers, yes? Any updated ones on ASUS's site?
3. What's the make/model of your SATA HDD?
4. You state that the system fails to properly boot with your boot drive -
one of the PATA HDDs. So does this problem occurs regardless of whether the
SATA HDD is connected, or does the problem occur *only* when the SATA HDD is
connected as a secondary HDD?
5. Assuming the latter, is there any boot problem if the SATA HDD is
disconnected from the system. Does the system then boot without incident and
thereafter functions without problems?
6. I take it the reason you partitioned the SATA HDD in Safe Mode was that
you could not access Disk Management (which would have been the normal
process) to partition/format that drive because of the problem you were
experiencing. Is that right? And why did you create a partition of only 1.5
GB on a 320 GB HDD? Is that of some consequence here?
7. I asked you whether you're certain that you've properly connected &
configured the SATA HDD in your system? Are you? I'm referring to the
physical connections, not just the BIOS settings. And have you tried
connecting the drive to different SATA connectors on the motherboard?

Could be some driver problem as you suspect although I find it hard to
believe an IRQ conflict would be involved.

Since I assume you don't have any important data/programs on the SATA HDD
since it has only a single tiny 1.5 GB partition as you've stated - or
presumably if there is some data on it you need you can easily copy it over
to one of your other drives - why not try installing the XP OS onto that
drive and see what happens? See if it will boot & function without problems.
Anna


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