Re: CHANGING SYSTEM BOOT DRIVES
From: peter (peter_at_nomalarky.net)
Date: 10/21/04
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:25:36 -0600
Have you gone into your BIOS and checked to see what was listed as 1st/2nd boot
device??
The Bios update might have changed it
peter
"Trevor" <Trevor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How do I make my SATA RAID 0 drives active for system boot? Currently my
> PATA drive, which is my D drive, is the active (system) drive however windows
> boots from my C (SATA) drive. I use to have my SATA drive as both system and
> boot drives until I did a bios update and then the PATA drive became active.
> The recovery console does not acknowledge my SATA RAID drives, they don't
> show up in chkdsk or map. Not only that, my D (PATA) drive is listed as my C
> drive, harddisk0. I've tried copying ntldr and ntdetect.com to the SATA
> drives but that causes errors.
>
> My system is an ASUS P4P800 with 2 WD Raptors in RAID 0 on the SATA bus
> designated as C. I also have a WD 120 G drive as my D drive on the PATA bus.
> I'm using WXP Pro SP2. In the disk managment utility, my drives are all
> designated properly and it shows D as system and C as boot.
>
> Any idea of how to do that without spending chunks of cash for software?
> Thanks
>
> Trevor
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> trevor
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