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Can i make my SATA HDD be a 'booter' if plugged into an PCI-to-SATA controller attached to my ASUS A7N8X rev.2.0 motherboard? I have BIOS v.1010 (newest one for my mobo), the SATA HDD is WD800JD, the PCI-to-SATA card is with a VIA6421A chip. I searched through forums and asked ASUS. The suggestion was that i must set the 'First boot device' option in BIOS to 'SCSI' in order to force the mobo to boot from the card, everyone claimed that that should do the 'trick' but it won't work. The card works fine if i boot from an IDE HDD and have my SATA HDD be a non-boot. The installation of WinXPPro SP2 finds both, the SATA card and the HDD, and starts the installation (partitions are there, formating works fine, copying of files is fine), but, when it comes to the first reboot, it's like there's no HDD at all. Can anyone answer me what's the problem with the card and the mobo? Is there something i'm missing when setiing my BIOS to boot from SCSI?

Thanks,
Skopsko

------------------------------ Can i make my SATA HDD be a 'booter' if connected to a PCI-to-SATA controller even if my mobo doesn't have a 'boot from sata device' in the bios boot sequence setup? But it does have the 'boot from scsi' option even if there's no scsi controller embedded.

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Try loading a basic windows install on your ide along with the sata device driver for your pci sata card. Then make an exact copy from the ide drive to the sata, making the sata the new boot device. Western digital software should have a program. I use maxblast for maxtor drives. In order to make a good copy, you need to load maxblast on your new windows install, and let the software locate the sata under "other devices". Maxblast will probably find it even if your board doesn't. Then partition and format the new sata drive, and with maxblast, it will start making an exact copy when using the utilities portion of the software. Hope it works for you.

Message edited by o1die on 12-18-2007 at 09:06:34 PM

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I need my SATA HDD be found as a boot device, i already found it in winxp. I need to boot from it like it's a normal boot HDD. It's supposed to work independently, no matter what other devices are plugged into my mobo. I don't need to have other HDD be a 'booter', jus' my SATA HDD.

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Mmm

I have an older motherboard, and have gone through the same process. Same result. I can see the Sata disk when in windows or in my acronis disk management software.

There was something I tried which might work for you (but didn't for me)

http://www.crn.com/white-box/60403842

I have a feeling its a bios issue, which because of the age of my board I am not going to be able to fix. (QDI Kinetiz)

Sad because this was to be step 2 of my system upgrade.

Step 1 - Copy the contents of 3 ide drives to one sata (Acronis disk manager is fantastic)

Step 2 - Boot from sata

Step 3 - install new mother board and use the sata drive in that.

I may have to jump straight from 1 to 3

If you find another solution - please get back to here

------------------------------ Steve
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I got it, finaly The problem was, the SATA controler was without a processor, jus' plain controler, which is not enough for boot from SATA. I switched the controler and have one with a procesor

Hi
Can You tell me which Card solved your problem
urgent

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