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Hard Drives Not Bootable

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IceTeaBag

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My friend just built a computer with 2 SATA hard drives and put an old IDE hard drive in as well. He says he's able to boot off the IDE drive but not the SATA drives. Anybody know what would cause this?
 
To be more precise:

I have two SATA drives... The Bios Raid utilty recognizes them, however, i cannot use them to boot... In windows set up, they are not there either, and in Fdisk the same thing. now, Under windows XP after having formatted the drives they are accessible.... Since I dont want my IDE drive in here anymore, what can I do to make my SATA drives Visible....?

Sata1: ST3120026AS
Sata2: ST3160023AS

thanks in advance for your help
 
What is the order of your boot devices?

Your MB may have an option like "boot from SATA drives"

Either way, the answer should be in the bios.
 
dick around in BIOS till you get it...

if not try raping it, a little hardware-mansechs might make it conesnt to working for you, sebastian ;)
 
blackrino9 said:
What is the order of your boot devices?

Your MB may have an option like "boot from SATA drives"

Either way, the answer should be in the bios.
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well, I have that one option in my Bios, saying Boot sequence or soemthing like that. either way, i cannot add into it, and all i see is a PCI card thing, and my IDE HD

so first it tests my cdrom and thten it goes to IDE
 
BIOS vary, but there should be at least SCSI in that list
if not try the PCI

the other issue will be that durning the install you will need to press F6 to install additional SCSI Drivers (floppy) when prompted

SATA, IDE RAID and any other IDE Device not on the Primary or Secondary IDE Channel will employ SCSI Drivers
 
Ice Czar said:
BIOS vary, but there should be at least SCSI in that list
if not try the PCI

the other issue will be that durning the install you will need to press F6 to install additional SCSI Drivers (floppy) when prompted

SATA, IDE RAID and any other IDE Device not on the Primary or Secondary IDE Channel will employ SCSI Drivers
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ffirst, my Bios is the Award Modular Bios v.6.00PG (phoenix)

then, When i go into "Integrated Peripherals"

then i have the choice between those two important things, PCI onchip somehting and "on chip IDE Devices"


The HDs didnt come with any software.. I have a floppy but those drivers are for SATA Raid, and are for my Mainborad..
in there i find the following options:;

Sata Raid Rom - Enabled
IDE Bus master - Enabled
Onboard IDE 1 Controlller - Enabled
Onboard IDE 2 Controlller - Enabled
IDE Prefetch Mode - Enabled
IDE HDD Block Mode - Enabled

Ill go and check the PCI thing :confused:

edit:

In the PCI part of it there wasnt anything about SATA or SCSI... :mad:
 
It'll be under advanced setup or sometimes there is a specific menu for boot order, but probably the former
 
its done.. wierd though, because i had to install 3rd party SATA Raid drivers for it, in order for it to work.. strange.. nways thanks for your help..
 
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