P8Z68-V Pro not booting from SATA Drive

No No NO, just put the HDD in the old pc boot into windows, change the IDE setting to AHCI in the registry . reboot the rig, into BIOS, set the IDE to AHCI and see it boot.
Shutdown, remove HDD insert into new rig, SATA 1 Port, see it boot, preferably into safe mode once or twice and then into standard mode.
Read the exact steps here.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/61869-ahci-enable-...

I am at work at the moment so I will give this a try when I get home, thanks for the reply and advice!

Just on a side note, I did try changing the sata in the bios for my new rig to "IDE" just to see if it would boot, but alas it would not.

Hello alyoshka

I have read your explanation and instructions on the link and can copycat them but don't understand what's actually happening to the drive before and after so that it's recognised?

Also what's the reason for booting to safe mode several times before booting to standard mode?

If you can spare a moment it would be great if you could explain a little further to clarify my understanding.

Thanks In advance.

If you want to understand it simply then I can give you an example, it's like recognition, or like FAT32 OSes don't recognize drives formatted in NTFS. If that's not good enough, then it's the way in which data is transferred between the two, the disk and the mobo, since the mobo is just a PCB, it's the understanding and recognition of the HDD by the Controller on the Mobo that is being super defined.
The physical method is the SATA interface and the logical method is the AHCI standard by which data at both ends will be interpreted.

Since the HDD already has an OS on it, this means the disc was used before in another machine. So, it has it's OS setup and drivers loaded for the parts that were present in the other machine, now when you remove that disc and put it into a new machine the OS will need to restructure itself to the New layout of the board and other peripherals on the rig. That's why we use safe mode, so that the OS gets acquainted with the new neighborhood, and learns to live with them instead of giving us a BSOD every now and then.

alyoshka
Thanks for taking the time to reply and explain.

I half understand now.... let me explain why I asked.

I purchased the same board and have sata drive with XP Pro SP3 Formatted NTFS and quite a lot of applications installed. I thought I had to format the drive and reinstall in the new system.
If I can install the drive without having to reinstall the OS and Applications, that would be great because there's much time involved installing everything.

To Quote You



In my senario my drive is formated NTFS.... so is the comment above still relevant?



If I install my NTFS XP Pro SP3 Sata drive into the new board would the data transfer between the drive and mobo be compatible or do I still need to uninstall the old mobo drivers etc and install the new mobo drivers from the new installation disc?

Can you explain how it works that safemode aquaints the OS?

Any further advice would be appreciated.

Thanks Again

That was an example.... the NTFS thing.....

You can use the same HDD with XP Pro SP3 in the new rig, leave the SATA settings to IDE, since I think AHCI is compatible with Vista and later OSes not pre Vista ones.
Yes, the drive, the OS and the Mobo will be compatible. BUT, you will still need to start in safe mode a few times. Uninstalling the older drivers and software is optional, but we do it anyways, so that the systems doesn't loose speed because of unnecessary programs and registry entries that aren't required.

When you start the rig in safe mode, only the basic, universal drivers are used. Thus , the OS has a chance to detect new hardware that is on the Mobo and new chips that are on it in, as the mode says, a safe way without forcing, for example -- say a ALC sound chip driver onto a XFi soundchip, with XFi screaming I'm not ALC but the OS not giving up, leading to a clash and then a crash with you being left with a BSOD .

And it would have been nicer of you to have started a new thread with this question since this is called threadjacking... the poor OP who actually posted the first question or started the thread will end up receiving mail for every new reply you get here. It's not very polite.....

Hello alyoshka

Thanks for taking the time to reply and explanations.

It was not my intention to hijack this thread or be rude to ICThomson.
Rather the opposite, I thought I was contributing to the discussion as my questions were relevant to the topic, but do take on board that you think otherwise and with your agreement will start a fresh post as I have a few more question with respect to your last explanations if you are still willing to advise. Please let me know here first, then I will post my other questions in a new topic.

Thanks again for the help.

Of course I'll help you out with whatever little I know....

Thanks alyoshka
I have continued my questions here.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/304401-12-existing-...

 

Have you checked that hard drive is set as default drive?