GA-K8NF-9 and SATA problems

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Hi,
I upgraded a to new Mobo with twin SATA raid hard drives last year. I had a
number of problems which I think where down to the SATA chip (most obvious
was that often when warm booting it would refuse to recognise the SATA
drives). Anyway, last week the boot partition became corrupted so I decided
to upgrade the Mobo to:

GA-K8NF-9 with Athlon 64 3700+

The drives are both Maxtor 250Gb models.

I'm having major problems getting the information off the corrupt SATA drive
(which I'll call BadSATA). Note that the partitions etc are both
recognisable, it's mainly the windows installation which is faulty. The
drive is in three partitions and I need the information of the third one
(Windows is installed on the first partition).

So far, I've tried:
A) Clean install (Win2K) on an ATA drive. I've installed the drivers from
the CD and also install the SATA drivers from GBs website, but whist I can
see SATA drives, it refuses to see the partitions and informs me that they
the disk isn't formatted.

B) Reinstall over the top of a Win2K install on the good SATA drive. This
blue screens shortly after booting.

C) Clean Win2K install on the Good SATA drive. On first boot this would
reboot shortly after the boot was complete. I went into safe mode and
install the GB drivers, after which it would boot fine _until_ I plugged the
bad SATA drive in, at which point it went back to rebooting shortly after
booting is complete. With Bad SATA plugged in it also refuses to boot into
safe mode (locks up whe the progress bar reaches 100%).

When booting with Bad SATA in place ChkDsk wants to run on the bad
partition. With install C, it reports that the corrupt partition is drive C,
no matter how I arrange the drives on the motherboard. Could this be causing
problems with the installation.


All I really want to achieve is to retrieve my data from the third partition
on the bad SATA drive.

Any Ideas? (my prefered solution is something involving install C (the fresh
one on the good SATA drive), but I'd be happy with something which could get
teh SATA drives recogniseable from the install on the ATA drive.

Mike

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

>
> Set the 'HD Boot Delay' (in the sys bios) to 5 seconds or more - this
> fixed
> my problem. Seems to be a pretty common problem, which probably will
> return
> or your new box.
Thanks, Wallaroo, I'll take a look at that setting.