Make SATA Boot Drive and still keep other ATA's

[navi]

I've been trying to setup a clean install of my new SATA 200gb Maxtor for what seems like forever. I've set it up with maxblast, installed drivers for xp, everything... and the only way I can get it to run windows is if i use Maxblast in WinXP and it copies all the contents of my current boot disk. This would be fine, but the SATA drive only boots when no other HD's are on the setup.

I'm no computer wizard, but no spring chicken either. I am running a A7N8X deluxe (rev.2) with the latest bios (1007) and would like to put my 3-160gb drives back on my system. I even have a PCI ATA133 card I tried to use, and it still would boot to the wrong drive. My SATA drive does not show in my bios, but i do have the silicon controller software so it recongnizes the drive then.

I may be overlooking something easy, but I just want my new stuff to work right, and its driving me crazy!

Thanks in advance...
navi

<font color=blue>AMD XP 3000+ 400fsb
Zalman CNPS6000-Cu
Asus A7N8X deluxe Rev. 2.0
1.3GB Geil DDR PC3200
3 - Maxtor 160GB ATA 133
1 - Maxtor 200GB SATA150
Windows XP sp1</font color=blue>

 

[khha4113]

Did you set first boot (in BIOS) to SATA?

Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.

 

[navi]

There is no option to boot from SATA in my bios (at least that I can find). The closest thing is SCSI, which I tried and was unsuccessful.

<font color=blue>AMD XP 3000+ 400fsb
Zalman CNPS6000-Cu
Asus A7N8X deluxe Rev. 2.0
1.3GB Geil DDR PC3200
3 - Maxtor 160GB ATA 133
1 - Maxtor 200GB SATA150
Windows XP sp1</font color=blue>

 

[khha4113]

I'm not familiar with your mobo (the last Asus I used was A7V266-E),but I think in its BOOT menu, I might be wrong, you can choose either SCSI or SATA by pressing arrow key or when you can press Enter at its option (SCSI), it should show up 2 options SCSI and SATA. That was what I did with my A7V266-E to boot from RAID.

Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.

 

[davemar14]

Did you enable the SATA jumper on the motherboard? It should be enabled, but things happen. You could have accidently switched that jumper when reseting CMOS, because they are close together.

 

[uprisingchuns]

im having the same problem you are. what i was able to do was to get 4 other of my ide drives to work with the sata as boot. disconnected my cd-rom drives and put those on my promise controller card and put the ide's on the primary and secondary ide controllers on the mobo. everything booted fine. but if i try to connect the ide's to my controller card.. no boot.. if anyone can help me out on that.. plz.. do