Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Click here to start participating now! Also, check out the New User Guide.
how do I boot a sata hd
Name: cliff1966 Date: March 29, 2008 at 14:24:20 Pacific OS: xp home CPU/Ram: intel duo/4gb Product: intel
Comment:
My motherboard crashed so I order up new goodies ie motherboard and processor. The new motherboard only has one ide port but something like 8 sata ports so I am trying to switch to sata. Trouble is is that when I plug in my new harddrive a Hitachi 320 the pc hangs at startup on the first startup screen. I got the old hd working but it is really messed up with too many drivers and I don't want to format if I don't have to. How do I get the sata to boot so that I can fresh install xp?
Name: kx5m2g Date: March 29, 2008 at 15:52:34 Pacific
Reply:
Does the BIOS recognize the hard drive ? If yes, check to see whether SATA is running in IDE mode.
0
Response Number 2
Name: OtheHill Date: March 29, 2008 at 15:58:12 Pacific
Reply:
You don't have your BIOS options for the SATA drive set correctly. You may not have the SATA controller you are using enabled in the BIOS. If you have 8 SATA ports you prbably have some sort of RAID available. You don't want to connect to the RAID controllers. If the ports are numbered use #1.
0
Response Number 3
Name: cliff1966 Date: April 7, 2008 at 19:07:30 Pacific
Reply:
thanks, hardware manager show hd but bios will not reconized it. I give up time to pay a pro I guess THanks for the try
Summary: Hi guys, I need to flash my BIOS and I downloaded the needed files. The instructions say to add the files to a Disk with NO device drivers installed. How do I make a simple boot disk? I know that ther...
Summary: How do i rename my 2 HD that run as one RAID. I have to raptors. When i just installed a fresh copy of xp, the harddrive became F:/ . Before reformate, it was C:/ . How do i change it back to...
0 
Can't Find Hard Drive
