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


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"Nick Jensen" wrote in message
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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?