"Nick Jensen" wrote in message ... Hi all, I just bought a new SATA HDD today. It's a Maxtor 250gb 7200RPM with 8mb cache. I plugged it in and the system booted fine, Windows told me it had detected a new RAID device and wanted me to install the drivers. Before installing the drivers, I went into computer management to see if I could access the drive yet and format it. It didn't detect any additional drives. I installed the Intel RAID drivers from my motherboard's site (I have a Gigabyte 8I875P, Intel 875P chipset), then went back into computer management and the drive was detected. I formatted it and I could access it. When I restarted my computer however, the problems began. The system would not boot with the SATA drive plugged in. The only way I can get into Windows is by unplugging the drive. I Do you possibly have BIOS set to boot from other devices? |
I checked and at number one in the Hard Disk boot order was "Add-on cards"
or something along those lines. I changed that to be second and my actual boot drive to be first, and this seems to have fixed it. Weird though as the SATA/RAID controllers are integrated in the M/B. Thanks heaps Unknown! Nick "Unknown" wrote in message ... "Nick Jensen" wrote in message ... Hi all, I just bought a new SATA HDD today. It's a Maxtor 250gb 7200RPM with 8mb cache. I plugged it in and the system booted fine, Windows told me it had detected a new RAID device and wanted me to install the drivers. Before installing the drivers, I went into computer management to see if I could access the drive yet and format it. It didn't detect any additional drives. I installed the Intel RAID drivers from my motherboard's site (I have a Gigabyte 8I875P, Intel 875P chipset), then went back into computer management and the drive was detected. I formatted it and I could access it. When I restarted my computer however, the problems began. The system would not boot with the SATA drive plugged in. The only way I can get into Windows is by unplugging the drive. I Do you possibly have BIOS set to boot from other devices? |
"Nick Jensen" wrote in message ... I checked and at number one in the Hard Disk boot order was "Add-on cards" or something along those lines. Yep, that'd do it! I changed that to be second and my actual boot drive to be first, and this seems to have fixed it. Weird though as the SATA/RAID controllers are integrated in the M/B. Live by the rule "**** happens" with computers. You will be surprised but not amazingly so, then! No doubt before you shoved all that in, "C" drive was first in the order. The thing is that some people prefer to boot off the Sata. Not sure of the speed now but I know back when it was starting to become "a thing" it was definitely a faster drive thus the preferred boot device. Yes, Rod, correct me. I admitted I am unsure of the speed of a SATA right at this moment! Whatever the speed, I still prefer to boot off the old "C" drive as normal for now. Thanks heaps Unknown! No problemos. |
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