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Problem with hard drive

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DarkCyber

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I installed my sata raid 0 hard drives with just them in the system and copied an image back up from my old ata raid 0 hard drives. I booted up with the sata drives and everything worked fine. I tested some apps and everything worked.

I then put in my ata raid 0 hard drives and then Windows made the ata drives Drive 0 and my sata drives Drive 1.

Can anyone think of any reason why Windows is making these drives Drive 0? Because after it makes the ata drives Drive 0 it screws stuff up.

Thanks!
 
See if ther'es a boto order you can change in the bios. Most raid type stuff will boot form teh lowest order on up. I had the same problem when i added scsi to my system becuase the scsi controller polled before the sata drives.
 
Most manuals, especially the Abit's have a chart showing you how the drives are configured for each of the BIOS settings.
 
I have an Abit KV8-Max 3 and it does have an order. In the bios under Advance Features the list is like this:

Bootable Add-in device = Onchip SATA Raid
First Boot Device = Floppy
Second Boot Device = CDROM
Third Boot Device = CDROM
Boot Other Device = Enabled

The first through third boot devices do not list and raid controller to boot from. They list floppy, ls120, hard drive, cdrom, zip, usb, lan and disabled.

My motherboard has two onboard raid controllers, one ata and one sata. I can't see where to force it to boot from the sata first.
 
Some sata onboard chips will only boot if you set it to SCSI..It recogonizes it as a scsi device..just set it to that and it SHOULD boot. Also some motherboards "fool" the Sata controller into thinking its an IDE device..dunno if that setting is in your specific mb but its worth looking into
 
In computer management -> disk management in Windows, you can change drive letters.... Is that what you mean?
 
With just my SATA raid 0 drives in I have two partitions on it a C: and D:, which is correct.

When I put in my ATA raid 0 drives I have a C: (this C: is my old boot from my image) and D: the pc or windows makes this drive C: and D: and my SATA drives G: and H:. Then when I use disk management to change the drive letters is screws up stuff.

This wouldn't happen if the pc wouldn't make the old drives Drive 0 and would just keep my new drives as Drive 0
 
Install Windows on the SATA drives w/ the other drives unhooked and then hook up the other drives, perhaps? There is a way to change it around with complete control in the registry, but it is very easy to fuck stuff up. If you change the drive letters around and you don't have your documents and settings on the right drive, for example, it will never let you log on and you have to reinstall or boot from another drive and fix it, heh....
 
I have installed Windows from my image backup to the SATA drives and boot with only them and they work fine. It's just when I reconnect my ATA drives that it sets the ATA drives to Drive 0 and screws up the lettering :confused:
 
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