Accessing SATA hard drive. My motherboard died and I had my files password protected in Windows XP Media Edition, can I connect the SATA hard drive to another PC via USB and unlock the protected files, or does it have to run as the main drive to allow access...

the SATA drive in IDE, RAID,AHCI in the BIOS. Still nothing. I consider this is my last resort -- I am going to just try to install WinXP on my other IDE drive and see if it works then install sata driver to try and see if I can access the sata drives I have....

problem is the size of the hard drive, NOT a SATA problem. The separate issue of access to SATA devices of any size I'll address later. Up to the early 1990's access to a hard drive was done as part of the work of the OS and CPU, and they had to specify the...

of Windows XP sp2 on an IDE hard drive. Needless to say Windows XP won't start on the SATA drive in any mode, just the blue screen with a "stop error" [Stop: 0x0000007B (0xF789E528, 0xC0000034, etc...]. I can only access the SATA hard drive from the...

versions? YMMV, depending on the BIOS, but 9x shouldn't need drivers to access a SATA drive, it just won't load it as a PCI device, and instead will see it as an ISA device needing a dedicated IRQ (a "P"-ATA device). I can access my SATA drives fine from...

GA-K8N PRO SLI XPRESS RECOVERY 2 INSTALLATION. :( :( :( Im Trying to install the xpress Recovery 2 On my hard drive I have a serial ATA drive but on Gigabytes website It states : Xpress Recovery2 supports only PATA hard disks and not SATA hard disks...

Xp SATA recovery & booting problem. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () Hi there, My system has been running a Seagate SATA hard drive loaded with XP pro together with a 10gig IDE slave for file backups. I regulary...

AHCI drive. What is an AHCI drive. I have a new motherboard (ASUS M378-VM) that has five SATA ports - SATA 1 (Red in connector) SATA 2 (Red) SATA 3 (RED) SATA 4 (Black) and SATA 5 (Black). The store manager told me that it would control five SATA hard drives,...

i found the stumper. because win XP builds the MBR during install based on weather you have IDE drive or SATA drive, i am unable to boot just from the sata hard drive alone because the MBR contains IDE drivers and not SATA drivers. [b]i'd hate to completly...

bits) but would like to keep my hard drive. I couldn't initially get the bios to recognize my sata HD so I disconnected it and reinstalled windows XP on a spare IDE HD, reattached the sata, fiddled a bit and Bob's your auntie, it all works. Now my SATA drive...