RE: SATA boot & partition issues

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To access windows cd you need to press F6 when prompted,have the drivers
for the SATA controller on a floppy,follow the instructions,the board should
have come with this floppy.Also,if you think the SATA drive is
corrupted,all drive
mfgs have a DOS utility you can run to chk the drive,RAID sets wont run in
this utility you need to physically unplug one,test one,then the
other.After replug
in both,RAID set is still ok to function.

"storm warden" wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I wonder if anyone has come across this scenario?
>
> 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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