no luck whatsoever in getting my SATA drive to be recognised during the win xp setup. I have looked all over to try and find out how to install windows on a SATA drive, and while I have learned much from this, It still doesn't seem to work with me. When in...

I have an existing IDE hard drive that has windows Xp installed my intent was to install a Sata as a back up I come to find out that the sata can not be a slave so I reinstalled windows on that sata drive then tried connecting the ide drive it also has windows....

Windows XP/SRV2003)" VCOMBORAID_I386_WIN2K="VIA VT8251/8237/8237A/6421/6410 SATA RAID Controller(Windows 2K)" VCOMBORAID_I386_NT4="VIA VT8251/8237/8237A/6421/6410 SATA RAID Controller(Windows NT4)" [Files.SCSI.VCOMBORAID_I386_NT5] driver = D-I386-NT5-RAID,...

windows on the SATA drive. So, my goals are as follows: 1. Get BIOS to recognize the sata drive. 2. Install Windows XP on the sata drive. FYI, the BIOS has been updated to the most recent version. interesting, I am having the exact same problem with...

even though i was logged into the sata\windows and specified the sata drive, it fixed the boot for the ide\windows so it had no effect. so i removed the recovery console, rebooted, during the boot process i removed the IDE drive. sata\windows never knew...

of the world (read, Windows) as if it were a simple IDE device, and Windows DOES have a built-in driver for that! That's the easy way to install and run Windows from a SATA drive. Read some harddrive reviews, then you know what is acceptable. Thanks guys! ...

the first boot disk in my BIOS! Will it work if I navigate to the C:\windows\system32\config folder on the IDE HDD and rewrite the entire folder onto the SATA HDD or will the problem still remain? I am afraid of doing that right as the sizes of C:\windows\system32...

know is when my brother bought his S-ATA 1 HDD he installed Windows XP SP2 on it [the 1 Win XP was on the 80 Gb ATA drive] so when I installed it I typed F6 in Setup to install windows on a S-ATA HDD [i made a diskette with the necessary files] loaded from...

IDE DVD/CD drive because it still works fine. Again, here's the recommended (but not necessary) method of installing Windows when you have a SATA and PATA/IDE drive: 1. Install all necessary components only, including the SATA drive 2. Install Windows...

Boot Problem. I just reinstalled windows on my SATA drive instead of my ide drive, I first changed the boot order in the bios to make sure the sata was first. Now the only way vista will boot is if the vista dvd is in the DVD drive. Without the disk I get a...