GA-K8N PRO SLI XPRESS RECOVERY 2 INSTALLATION

Im Trying to install the xpress Recovery 2 On my hard drive
I have a serial ATA drive but on Gigabytes website
http://tw.giga-byte.com/Support/Mo [...] wTechID=91
It states :
Xpress Recovery2 supports only PATA hard disks and not SATA hard disks on the following motherboards (As this is a BIOS-related issue, it can be solved by BIOS update)
GA-K8N Pro-SLI
i have Sence updated the bios to Version F9
Date 02/10/2006
i used the @bios software to do this
but still cannot install xpress recovery 2
is there something I have to change in the bios so it detects
SATA Drive instead of IDE
Because When I try to setup Recovery 2 from The disk I get

Ide drive is not existance or all primary partion are occupied

I have installed all the updates from The Gigabyte website but still cannot Fix this one issue

8O Please Help :!: :!: :!:
A.S.A.P 8O

Thank you for your time
R.Garbutt

Model Name : GA-K8N Pro-SLI
BIOS Ver : F9
VGA Brand : Asus N5750
CPU Brand : AMD 64FX 3700
Win XP SP2
2xGeil DDR 512
Memory Size : 1.00gb
Speed : 2.21ghz
Power Supply : 550 W

MMM mine doesnt support this feature i guess
searched everywhere no such luck owell
thanks for the reply anyhelp is good

hey i'm new on these forums but have you been able to get it working?

i cant onmy k8nf9 - same error message as well. updated bios and everything

I have Gigabyte GA-K8N5IPVM9-RH Motherboard and when XP sp2 is installed on either a

Excelstor Technology J8160s 160 Gb Sata HDD partioned 140/20 Gb

OR

Maxtor 6Y060L0 60Gb Pata HDD partioned 40/20 Gb

I boot up from the Motherboard CD Xpress Recovery Screen Appears I select the option to Backup after a few seconds I also get the Message HDDD is Full. No room to store image File!!!
Bios File on motherboard is F3 the latest from Gigabytes website although this motherboard should support SAta HDD it would not work with Pata HDD as stated above.

I have emailed Gigabyte and they replied stating they could not produce this problem I then asked them are there any more BIOS settings required.
They replied to >>Go into Advanced Bios and boot from cd????
If they had read the First question they would have realised I have already done this.

Anyone else with Gigabyte MB been able to get Xpress Recovery2 working ?

Thats right on my board its Control + F1

Gives additional Bios Features

Enables you to alter Clock Speeds etc and enable SMART for HDD

I can`t understand why I get message HDD is full though when it is not.

There are several freebies out there....BUT !!!, many do not work with VISTA...go figure, what does work with vista....No I hate Mac too...LOL


http://www.downloadatoz.com/f/hard [...] ogram.html

I used the Macriium Reflect, you will have to create a boot disk and load
a plugin, but its not bad for free...It has a nice GUI interface....Lets face it GHOST works great and is simple to use but it does have a price...see website above, they note 3-4 that are free to use too

Good Luck,

sixredfish