Re: WinXP won't recognize a SATA drive. Help Please!
From: John Butler (onclejon_at_uselesnospam.com)
Date: 10/20/04
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:35:06 +0100
JMVQ
Well done. That is an interesting result. You must have hung your drive on
the RAID controller. In my system the SATA drives are hung on my ITE IT8211
ATA/ATAPI Controller togehter with a non-SATA drive. I find that this works
just as fast as when I was susing the SATA controller and the two drives as
aRAID, which I abandoned becuase of unreliability, the slightes failure and
the RAID was lost and difficult to restore from backup. Now I use the first
SATA drive for the System and the second as backup, copied with Caspar XP,
which can be made to the system drive by inverting the boot order in the
bios.
John
"jmvcq" <phlogiston@neverspam.com> wrote in message
news:1098250087.ToJCryJFDtcqsQLG72sMvw@teranews...
> IT'S FIXED :-)
>
> I went once again in the Device Manager, and, not seing anything about
> SATA or SCSI, clicked on the line that says "Raid Controller", which I
> had ignored before as I don't have RAID. Sure enough, *after* it opened,
> it said "SCSI and RAID controller". I installed the Silicon driver from
> there, with a diskette, and it worked!
>
> Thank you all for your help!
>
> In article <1098243002.LnQAgdkSi9TQm8JA75FV2g@teranews>,
> phlogiston@neverspam.com says...
>> In article <eIXeqLftEHA.2984@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>,
>> onclejon@uselesnospam.com says...
>>
>> > drivers. I am using two SATA drives NOT configured as a RAID. I had to
>> > DISABLE the Raid controller in the bios and then set the IBM controller
>> > with
>> > the SATA drives as Disk O and Disk 1 and one other non-SATA as Disk 2.
>> > : You
>>
>> In my MOBO (A7N8X-E), a SATA drive does not show in the first page of the
>> bios. The bios are set to boot first the floppy, then Disk 0, the system
>> drive (IDE).
>>
>> > cand check this by going to Start\Administrative Tools\Computer
>> > Management\Disk Management. If the Sata drive is not present, check in
>> > your
>> > system drive and open the file "boot.ini which should have a sysntax
>> > something like the following
>> >
>> > [boot loader]
>> > timeout=5
>> > default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
>> > [operating systems]
>> > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
>> > Professional 1" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
>> > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Safe
>> > Mode"
>> > /fastdetect/safeboot:minimal/sos/bootlog
>> > C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT="Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons
>> >
>> In Disk Management the SATA drive is not present. Both IDE drives (with
>> WinXP and Win98) are.
>>
>> Boot.ini looks like this:
>> ..................
>> [boot loader]
>> timeout=5
>> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
>> [operating systems]
>> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
>> professional 1" /fastdetect
>> ...............
>>
>> > If your default is like mine but you are not seeing your SATA drive
>> > then
>> > either your is not bios set to the first boot disk after the floppy
>> > drive or
>> > the drive itelf is not correctly formatted. Since Windows 98 can "see
>> > it"
>> > the problem is likely in the formating. You say the SATA driv is
>> > "already
>> > partitioned and formatted", but you do not say how you have partioned
>> > it or
>> > how you haveformatted it. I suggest you format it in NTFS as a single
>> > partition and make sure that it is a primary active single partion and
>> > that
>> > the other drives are not primary and active.
>>
>> John, just to check that we are talking about the same system, the IDE
>> drive is the SYSTEM drive, with XP-SP1 on it, and has been working fine
>> for some time. It has five FAT32 partitions, two of them >32GB, all done
>> with Fdisk and Format using a Win98 boot diskette.
>>
>> The SATA drive which I have been trying to add has 4 FAT32 partitions,
>> one
>> >32GB, and is meant to be a DATA drive. Not sure how it was formatted,
>> >but
>> it comes from another computer, where it was working fine. It has in it a
>> bunch of files which I would like to keep if possible, but I can reformat
>> it if I have to.
>>
>> > Good Luck
>> > John
>> >
>> THANK YOU!
>>
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>> > "DL" <dl@spoofmail.nothere> wrote in message
>> > news:ujpU1WdtEHA.1276@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> > > With this mobo/ sata cntrlr I recollect you have to install sata
>> > > drivers,
>> > > whether yr going to use raid or not
>> > >
>> > > "jmvcq" <phlogiston@neverspam.com> wrote in message
>> > > news:1098175407.DRKpPJLcWwvVQEv2e1Bh+A@teranews...
>> > >> I am running WinXP on an IDE HD and an A7N8X-E Motherboard. I've
>> > >> just
>> > >> installed a SATA drive (already partitioned and formatted) to be
>> > >> used for
>> > >> data, but XP won't recognize it. During boot the SATA shows up on
>> > >> the
>> > >> screen as it should, right after the option about a SATA driver for
>> > >> RAID
>> > >> (I don't have RAID or any RAID drivers). Also, I tried loading Fdisk
>> > >> from
>> > >> a Win98 boot diskette, and Fdisk sees the SATA drive properly.
>> > >>
>> > >> In the process of trying "everything," I added added a third HD with
>> > >> Win98SE on it, booted that, and lo and behold, Win98 *does*
>> > >> recognize the
>> > >> SATA drive right off the bat, reads the files on it, and sees it as
>> > >> a
>> > >> normal drive in every way. XP does see the Win98 drive normally, but
>> > >> not
>> > >> the SATA drive.
>> > >>
>>
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