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Sata and Ide drives problem booting from wanted drive Win XP PRO
Please excuse this lenghty question but I am trying to cover all the
configuration problems to assist with a diognosis. I have a P/C with the following configuration. 1gb ddram, p4 3ghz, gigabyte mainboard, Sis chipset. Two Ide Drives on Ide port 0, (master and slave) a dvd burner and a third Ide drive on ide port 1 (master and slave) Two sata 320gb drives on the on board SATA ports 0 & 1 I also have a SATA driver card (pci) and have a Sata DVD burner on that port and a third sata HDD on the second port. I am unable to get the system to boot if I have the sata dvd installed. I know it is a lot of drives. I had made the sata drive on port 0 the boot drive and I am using Win XP-PRO. Initially my Ide drive on port 0 (master) was the boot drive then about six months ago I managed to get a recursive problem telling me to re-register WIN-XP which I did but allways got told "it is registered dont bother". I kept doing this but it finally counted down to zero days left to register and got in an endless loop. Since I needed more storage and wanted to keep the data on the old IDE boot disk, I installed a SATA 320gb drive and re-installed Win XP-pro using the new SATA drive as the boot disk. So far so good. I then cleaned off the operating system on the ide drive 0 and used the extra storage space. I later added a second sata drive to port1 (on main board) still every thing was fine. I had one ide dvd burner and decided to add a second one and since I had a spare SATA port I installed a Sata one. This is where the trouble started. No matter what I did I was unable to get the system to boot. If I used a linux boot disk I was able to see all the drives and what was on them but no matter what I tried (selecting the sata 0 as the boot drive) I was unable to get the system to boot from that disk unless I unplugged the sata dvd drive. I tried plugging the sata drives in so that sata drive 0 went to port 0 on the main board and when that failed to boot I then plugged it into port 0 on the addin sata card. No matter what I do I am unable to get the system to boot if I use the sata dvd-drive. Finally I thought I would use the windows install disk to check the boot sector but if I ran the disk from the new sata dvd drive it would run so far and then give me the blue screen of death and tell me I may have a virus. If I booted with the win install cd in the old ide dvd drive then Windows install would run. I finally decided to re-install XP on the ide drive on port 0 (master). I still cannot get the system to work with the dvd sata drive installed. Can anyone offer some help. JIM McCARDLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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