SATA Boot drive NOT!. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers () SATA Boot drive NOT! Actually that's only half true. As long as there's no major malfunction it boots fine from that drive. After the floppy disaster I spent the day setting...

sata as boot drive for WINXP. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () I just bought a motherboard that uses sata and I can set it as the boot drive but I need to know how to do a clean install of my win xp I used the disk utility...

SATA drive (G:). Modified boot.ini on > the > G:. Ran FIXBOOT from CD. Set motherboard BIOS to boot from SATA instead of > IDE. SATA boots, but comes up as G:, not C:, but is REALLY fast. IDE still >boots OK if I switch to it in the MB BIOS pre-boot....

the SATA drives>> if I hook back in the IDE drive, then there is no problem seeing the >SATA drives (they just become Disk1(SATA) and Disk2 (SATA) where the >boot drive (IDE) becomes Disk0) >> next question : is there a generic SATA driver that can...

I have set it as boot drive from within BIOS. I want to avoid reformatting the SATA, as I pulled some data off the IDE drive when the system was running off the SATA as boot drive, before reformatting the IDE. Help! CoolerMaster ATCS Al case Asus...

the two errors. Try disconnecting the ATA drives, then set the boot sequence to SATA then CD then ATA. If it gives you a "can't find the OS" message, wipe the OS files from the SATA drives, boot from the CD, and install the OS on the SATA drives. Reconnect...

build... Yes... My recommendation is install everything with just the SATA connected, then install The IDE drive. Go into your BIOS to make sure it reads the SATA as the boot drive. Start the PC up and go into you Disk Manager in the Admin function of the...

One is a Sata dvd rom and the other Is A Sata hdd that I'm currently starting from scratch with a fresh install of XP Sp3 which if all goes well I am planning on useing as my boot drive. I hope to get the 4 other Sata ports working and install my 2 other Sata...

slightly more complicated than that. During my installation of XP, the Seagate 120GB boot drive has always been on SATA 1, Drive 0 but I had the Maxtor plugged into SATA 2 and this registered as Drive 1. All logical so far. I then got back my 400GB...

drive W SATA drive X SATA drive Y SATA drive Z try other boot devices: NO OK BRB There is not setting in the BIOS to change SATA boot order. My OS is on a SATA drive. Please ignore 3 and try the other suggestions. heh.. wild. Not sure if...