P4C800-D SATA as Primary Master

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It is seen as the fourth master because it is connected to the fourth master
controller, now, in bios, under boot, set( it ) to be the boot disk and
remove your existing drive as the boot disk
"Jerry Slaughter" <jerryslaughter@knology.net> wrote in message
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>I have a new Maxtor 120GB SATA drive that I want to use as my new primary
>drive. BIOS will not recognize it as the master IDE drive, it sees it as
>the 4th Master. I even disconnected all other drives. When the old drive is
>installed I can boot up fine, see the SATA drive, read.write to it.
>
> What am I missing? Have gone through the manual and have not found
> anything that sheds any light on this issue.
>
> Jerry S.
>

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"Jerry Slaughter" <jerryslaughter@knology.net> wrote in message
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>I have a new Maxtor 120GB SATA drive that I want to use as my new primary
>drive. BIOS will not recognize it as the master IDE drive, it sees it as
>the 4th Master. I even disconnected all other drives. When the old drive is
>installed I can boot up fine, see the SATA drive, read.write to it.
>
THanks for all he input. What I ended up doing was use the utility on the
Maxtor disk that allowed it to be configured as the boot drive. I also went
into bios and set it in there. All files transfered. I did have to repair my
MS Office installation, but so far everything else is working.

Interesting side note...after I got it working last night I thought about
going ahead and just doing a clean re-install of XP and my other
software...when I started the re-install, I rebooted to the install disk, XP
started the initial file install, then I got a BSOD...disk error...would not
continue the install. I tried 2 more times, same error. Normal restart back
to XP when CD removed. Does the SATA drive require a install of a driver
during the initial installation (the F6 prompt messsage during the initial
file transfer)?

Jerry S.

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Yes. During install, at very beginning, you'll see a message on bottom of
screen saying "Hit F6 to load SCSI drivers" or something like that.
Hit F6, put in the floppy with the S-ATA drivers of your motherboard ( you
have to copy them to diskette first, since install will not lookup CD
drives).
Attention : this F6 message is short !!!
After that it should work fine and be able to install correctly.
Phil

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> "Jerry Slaughter" <jerryslaughter@knology.net> wrote in message
> news:90fbb$422cf751$454901da$8653@KNOLOGY.NET...
>>I have a new Maxtor 120GB SATA drive that I want to use as my new primary
>>drive. BIOS will not recognize it as the master IDE drive, it sees it as
>>the 4th Master. I even disconnected all other drives. When the old drive
>>is installed I can boot up fine, see the SATA drive, read.write to it.
>>
> THanks for all he input. What I ended up doing was use the utility on the
> Maxtor disk that allowed it to be configured as the boot drive. I also
> went into bios and set it in there. All files transfered. I did have to
> repair my MS Office installation, but so far everything else is working.
>
> Interesting side note...after I got it working last night I thought about
> going ahead and just doing a clean re-install of XP and my other
> software...when I started the re-install, I rebooted to the install disk,
> XP started the initial file install, then I got a BSOD...disk
> error...would not continue the install. I tried 2 more times, same error.
> Normal restart back to XP when CD removed. Does the SATA drive require a
> install of a driver during the initial installation (the F6 prompt
> messsage during the initial file transfer)?
>
> Jerry S.
>