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Anonymous   06-23-2004 at 03:06:48 PM

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I have a new Gigabyte GA-81PE1000 Pro 2 motherboard which offers SATA
& IDE support. I cannot get my old IDE hard drives and my new
SATA drives to work together. I had to reinstall Windows XP Pro from
scratch and installed the appropriate SCSI (?) drivers, which were
copied from the Gigabyte CD onto a floppy. In fact the only way that
I could get a system was to load the operating system on an IDE disk
--- the SATA disks are no longer recognised.


Help! (Please)

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Apollo   06-23-2004 at 09:14:14 PM
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tanenbaum wrote:
> I have a new Gigabyte GA-81PE1000 Pro 2 motherboard which offers SATA
> & IDE support. I cannot get my old IDE hard drives and my new
> SATA drives to work together. I had to reinstall Windows XP Pro from
> scratch and installed the appropriate SCSI (?) drivers, which were
> copied from the Gigabyte CD onto a floppy. In fact the only way that
> I could get a system was to load the operating system on an IDE disk
> --- the SATA disks are no longer recognised.
>
>
> Help! (Please)

If you're wanting to boot from your sata install you have to change the boot
order in the bios to scsi before ide, the bios disk controller thinks that
the sata disks are scsi devices.

If you want your sata drives to be visible from the ide install, goto admin
tools, comp management, disk management and activate/partition and format
the the sata drives. You need to install the sata drivers first from the
mobo disk, IIRC.

HTH

--
Ian

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Anonymous   06-24-2004 at 05:17:30 AM
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get the driver for your SATA controller on a floppy.
during installation of XP, press F6 when prompted and feed it the driver
disk - XP setup will then see your SATA drives.

ric

"tanenbaum" <tanenb@essex.ac-dot-uk.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:40d98068$1_3@news.athenanews.com...
> I have a new Gigabyte GA-81PE1000 Pro 2 motherboard which offers SATA
> & IDE support. I cannot get my old IDE hard drives and my new
> SATA drives to work together. I had to reinstall Windows XP Pro from
> scratch and installed the appropriate SCSI (?) drivers, which were
> copied from the Gigabyte CD onto a floppy. In fact the only way that
> I could get a system was to load the operating system on an IDE disk
> --- the SATA disks are no longer recognised.
>
>
> Help! (Please)
>
> ==============
> Posted through www.HowToFixComputers.com/bb - free access to hardware
troubleshooting newsgroups.

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