mhurley
07-27-2005, 11:55 PM
I bought a new Gigabyte K8-NS with an A64 3200 processor as well as a 300 gig WD SATA drive. From my old system, I just yanked the motherboard and slapped this one in...Put my current IDE drives in and and it actually booted just fine..loaded all the new mobo drivers etc..and it works. I plugged in the SATA drive, formatted it and it looks good.
Well now I want to make the SATA drive the primary and load the OS onto it (time for a fresh OS install to speed it up). I've tried this at least a dozen time and nothing has successfully worked. I've flashed to the very latest Gigabyte BIOS and it has not helped. Here's what I've tried.
Format SATA as FAT32, load XP via DOS boot (fails at the first restart with a nasty BSOD. I've repeated this twice after reformatting, so it was not a fluke).
Norton Ghost my current OS over to the SATA, change BIOS to boot from SATA....Pukes on startup.
The SATA drive works fine from a storage standpoint because I'm able to load files to it...just doesnt' like booting from it.
I am very new to SATA so is there something weird you have to do with it? I'm use to jumpers and master/slave settings.
Any ideas?
Well now I want to make the SATA drive the primary and load the OS onto it (time for a fresh OS install to speed it up). I've tried this at least a dozen time and nothing has successfully worked. I've flashed to the very latest Gigabyte BIOS and it has not helped. Here's what I've tried.
Format SATA as FAT32, load XP via DOS boot (fails at the first restart with a nasty BSOD. I've repeated this twice after reformatting, so it was not a fluke).
Norton Ghost my current OS over to the SATA, change BIOS to boot from SATA....Pukes on startup.
The SATA drive works fine from a storage standpoint because I'm able to load files to it...just doesnt' like booting from it.
I am very new to SATA so is there something weird you have to do with it? I'm use to jumpers and master/slave settings.
Any ideas?