large SATA drives and keep the current ATA drives, and continue to boot from the current small ATA drive. Awhile back I posted on Dell's forum and was told if I install SATAs I would have to boot from a SATA rather than the current ATA. Just doing a reality...

Boot from SATA PCI Card. Hi guys, I have an MSI865PE Neo2-P Platinum Motherboard Recently the onboard sata controllers stop working; i could not boot from my HDD so i bought a PCI Sata card to resolve my problem but i having a lot more problems now :ange:...

SATA boot when attached to PCI-toSATA on A7N8X rev.2.0?. Can i make my SATA HDD be a 'booter' if plugged into an PCI-to-SATA controller attached to my ASUS A7N8X rev.2.0 motherboard? I have BIOS v.1010 (newest one for my mobo), the SATA HDD is WD800JD, the...

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....

SATA boot& partition issues. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain () Hi there, I wonder if anyone has come across this scenario? I have an XP Professional installation last week when I switched my pc on it would not boot...

all seeing the sata) ghosted the IDE single partition drive to the SATA drive. i can boot to the boot.ini on my IDE drive and from there boot to either windows on IDE or SATA. booted to sata windows, edited registry so that SATA windows and IDE windows...

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 be loaded before Windows Recovery Console starts to enable it seeing the SATA drives? or is...

installing. No go. I installed XP onto the SATA, went fine, and now the SATA is the boot disc. System runs great with it. Still can't get XP onto the IDE drive-again, have reformatted, tried running from boot floppies first, removed SATA and tried-nothing....