Re: Making a SATA drive the boot drive

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From: BobV (robowa_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/17/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 20:50:06 -0800

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>>I have a new ASUS A7N8X-E with a SATA controller on board, and a new WD
>>SATA drive, and am finding it impossible to make it the boot disk.
>>
>> XP SP2 will recognize the disk as long as I have a IDE disk installed,
>> and the SATA disk is usable, but I am unable to use it as the boot drive.
>> If I try to reinstall XP without the IDE drive then the install won't run
>> because it says that there are no drives at all.
>>
>> I can use XP's disk management to partition and format the SATA drive but
>> this doesn't help.
>>
>> Any answers, thanks, Bob
>>
>
> Did you configure the boot drive sequence in BIOS to actually use the SATA
> ports to find a bootable hard drive? Is the SATA controller enabled in
> BIOS? Did you install the SATA BIOS (it has its own BIOS that loads after
> the system BIOS although it might share EEPROM space), usually as part of
> the chipset driver package for your motherboard?
>
I can find no way to configure the boot drive to use the SATA ports in BIOS,
I see no way to enable the SATA controller in BIOS.
No I did not install the SATA BIOS, as I am not sure what or where it is.
It certainly is not mentioned in the MOBO manual.
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