Can't boot from SATA

[altu]

I have a GByte 8IPE1000 mobo with the ICH5 **without RAID** and a SEAGATE SATA 120 GB HDD.
IDE1 and IDE2 are populated with a CD unit a CDRW unit and another HDD.
WinXp will not boot from the SATA drive in SATA native mode (SATA0) although it recognizes it. It only
boots when I configure the SATA drive to be seen by the system as Primary Master but
so I lose an IDE Channel.

I would appreciate any help you can give me.

 

[FallOutBoyTonto]

Go into your BIOS and change the boot up order to let your SATA drive try first. It might be listed as a SCSI device, that is how mine is listed (Asus A7V8X mobo). My primary boot device is configured as SCSI in the BIOS but it boots my 2x Raptor RAID 0 array. But I'm not too sure what it'll say for your GByte board.

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[altu]

Hmm, my mainboard does not have RAID capabilities and Intel does not provide a driver to install with F6 when installing winXp. It has the ICH5 chip not the ICH5R (with RAID). I tried to tell the system to boot from SCSI first but to no result (there is no RAID driver anyway and other options are only HDD0, HDD1, CDROM, LS-ZIP, USB-CDROM etc.).
Thing is, in SATA native mode it won't boot even if I remove the other two IDE devices and leave only the SATA drive (in native mode) and a CD unit.