Thanks to Norm and James

I will try it out .
Can You Norm give me the settings ?
Is the boot sata 250 connected to the Sata 1 ( no raid ) and did you load
some drivers ( as well for the 137 GB as for the sata device as for the
asus raid )?
Windows xp sp1 and/or sp2 ?
Is the 160 Pata connected to .... connector ?
Much appreciated

Roland



"Norman E. Powroz"
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It sounds to me like you have the Boot Priority order screwed up. It
determines what order the IDE devices are seen at boot time. Adjust
these settings, and it should all fall into place. I have built two
systems in the past 2 weeks using the P5AD2-E Premium board (a really
nice board!!). System 1 uses 4 SATA drives in a dual-mirrored RAID
configuration. System 2 currently has a 250GB SATA drive as boot, and
a 160 PATA drive as secondary. Both systems have DVD drives on the
Primary IDE connector.

HTH
Norm

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:54:57 +0100, "Roland"
wrote:



My friends

I just installed my MB P5AD2-Premium with following devices : 2 sata 160GB
on sata1 and 2 connectors ( no raid and as masters ) and 1 dvd-player on
Pri -IDE .( later , I have to add the PATA 250 GB ( on connector
Pri-IDE-RAID ? ) and the dvdrw on Pri-Ide ( as slave ) from my actual ,
still running , PC ).

The setup is done " from the booklet " in the Bios :shows as Prim IDE
master
is the dvd , the third and the fourth IDE as masters are the 2 sata 160GB
.
The IDE configuration is default as in the booklet : Sata as " standard
IDE
" . And I want to keep the 3 Maxtors as independent drives - no raids .

After installing XP-Pro bootable in the DVD , the following occours ( in
Explorer ) : DVD is the C: , the D and E are the both Satas 160 GB ( in
NTFS
with max 137 GB ! ) and the system is installed in the E: ! ( and after
rebooting several times , no problem for starting a good windows
XP-Pro .. ).

Whats wrong and how to change or correct a " well installed " XP-Pro ( no
sp1 or 2 installed for the moment ) on drive C: ???.

When I let Maxblast3 look at the configuration , it shows Pr Master : DVD
,
Sec Master the Sata E: ( as red C: !!! ) and no Sata D visible ( must be
as
a Third or Fourth Master ? ) . Also , the program does not allow to change
the size or properties of the Sec master ( E: or so called C: ).Does that
give a hint ?

Both drives can be considered as to be installed from scratch ( no OS , no
data ) .If so , what should be the correct settings and procedure ?




Thanks for all Your help.