My boyfriend's computer system would not boot up this past weekend. He had no problems with the system before that.
He has an ASUS A8N-E motherboard and two SATA drives. The motherboard has 4 SATA connectors. One of the drives )Drive #1) has/had a messed up MBR which is why he has a second hard drive with the WinXP o/s installed on it.
Here's what I've tried to fix it:
Disconnected Drive #1 and tried to reboot - still doesn't recognize Drive #2 (new Seagate) in Bios and won't boot.
Disconnect Drive #2, reconnect #1 - same thing. No SATA drives detected in BIOS. (Bios set to autodetect).
Bought a PCI-e SATA controller card and installed it. When I connect Drive #2 to the card, it doesn't show in the BIOS but I don't get the Boot Disk Error message and some sort of program pops up after the BIOS loads showing the drive recognized by the card and saying to press Control-J to install a RAID. After that, we get the Windows didn't successfully load the last time message and if we select Load Windows Normally, the Windows Splash Screen flashes for a moment and then disappears and the computer reboots.
We also replaced the battery and reset the CMOS and reset the BIOS to defaults.
I tried doing a Windows repair with Drive #2 connected to the card but get a message that no hard drives exist.
I'm thinking Drive #1 went bad and caused a problem with the SATA controller on the motherboard.
Help! My boyfriend is a musician and doesn't want to lose all his music programs and his latest song (not backed up)!
Any ideas?
He has an ASUS A8N-E motherboard and two SATA drives. The motherboard has 4 SATA connectors. One of the drives )Drive #1) has/had a messed up MBR which is why he has a second hard drive with the WinXP o/s installed on it.
Here's what I've tried to fix it:
Disconnected Drive #1 and tried to reboot - still doesn't recognize Drive #2 (new Seagate) in Bios and won't boot.
Disconnect Drive #2, reconnect #1 - same thing. No SATA drives detected in BIOS. (Bios set to autodetect).
Bought a PCI-e SATA controller card and installed it. When I connect Drive #2 to the card, it doesn't show in the BIOS but I don't get the Boot Disk Error message and some sort of program pops up after the BIOS loads showing the drive recognized by the card and saying to press Control-J to install a RAID. After that, we get the Windows didn't successfully load the last time message and if we select Load Windows Normally, the Windows Splash Screen flashes for a moment and then disappears and the computer reboots.
We also replaced the battery and reset the CMOS and reset the BIOS to defaults.
I tried doing a Windows repair with Drive #2 connected to the card but get a message that no hard drives exist.
I'm thinking Drive #1 went bad and caused a problem with the SATA controller on the motherboard.
Help! My boyfriend is a musician and doesn't want to lose all his music programs and his latest song (not backed up)!
Any ideas?
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