Re: SATA boot & partition issues

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Install the sata controller driver.

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"storm warden" wrote:
| Hi there,
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| I wonder if anyone has come across this scenario?
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| I have an XP Professional installation last week when I switched my pc on
it
| would not boot properly either normally or in Safe mode it got stuck in a
| loop and kept on rebooting itself. I tried recovery console but it would
not
| let me access the installation. I tried the repair option but again the
| previous installation was undetected. I had a spare IDE drive to hand so I
| removed the SATA drive on which the original installation resided and
| installed a fresh copy of windows. Now when re-connect the original SATA
| drive the system boots but very slowly but does not let me access the SATA
| drive even though it is detected in the BIOS. Gdisk detects the partitions
| but flags them as unknown.
| Is there any way I can access this drive so I can recover my files and
| copy them onto the new installation.
|
| Your help would be much appreciated
|
| Thanks
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