Re: SATA and MBR
- From: Bjorn <Bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:07:00 -0800
Well, I have 3 SATA and around 30 ATA. One SATA have this problem after
Paragons Hard Disk Manager Suite 2008 changed the mbr to contained a boot
menu that didnt worked. To get rid of that and restore mbr I used fixmbr so I
now have a standard mbr. But It cant boot. I use the disk for storage so
nothing wrong with it. Its just the boot, it cannot be recognized as a boot
disk.
Most of my drives, and all 3 SATA, is from Seagate. But the driver is for
VIA chipset. What driver depends on the chipset on mainboard. Therefore these
drivers could not be included in Windows XP but Vista cover some but not all
SATA. The latest ver of XP is from 2004 and at that time SATA was not well
spread. VIA chip set often cause problems. Mob for intel always have better
support. I have MSI with VIA and AMD but the VIA driver works, no problems,
but how to install it without reinstalling Windows and all programs?
If it is not the driver missing, Paragons program have changed something
more than mbr. Support admitted mbr but nothing more.
About missing driver or not I was told that they had no support for hardware.
They are a software company. If so, they should not make program that change
the boot and partions. Also this program was a demo that cannot make changes
to HD but I got a boot menu from Paragon, how come? But they have really
tried to help for 10 days or more.
"Carl G" wrote:
I use SATA drives all the time and have never had an issue like you.
discribe.
Xp and Vista install no problem.
But I use Segate or Western digital drives.
Don't know if that would make a difference or not.
And also use Intel and Asus boards.
Hope this may help.
--
Carl G
"raylopez99" <raylopez99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Nov 26, 11:54 pm, Bjorn <Bj...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Note here that it seems to me that all programs I have tried to change
mbr
back seems to do not work with SATA drives.
Also installing Windows on a SATA drive can be difficult sometimes.
"Also installing Windows on a SATA drive can be difficult sometimes."
This is so true. I just build a system with SATA drives and even
though I am pretty proficient with PCs, it took me two whole days.
The hardware was top of the line and modern, and the Hitachi Sata
drive I used had the latest drivers built into Vista, but still, in
the end, the only way I could boot from the Sata drive was to first
install an IDE as the primary C: drive, then use Norton Ghost to
"diskcopy" the C: drive onto a Sata drive, then physically switch the
drives and fiddle with the BIOS and motherboard switches. Before I
figured this out I spent a day doing other fixes, to no avail.
Also your problem underscores the importance of backing up an image of
the harddrive, using Norton Ghost or equivalent, onto a seperate,
external HD.
RL
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