No System Boot Disk (or Volume?) found

[Guest]

I did something I shouldn't have with my BIOS or Raid Configuration...., Not
sure. But here is what is happening.

First, some info on my system. I have a SATA Drive with my O/S installed on
it. I also have 2 other HDD from my "old" Computer. As I said, everything was
working just fine till I went and messed-up something.

My SATA, and my two other drives show-up in my BIOS, and they are setup to
boot; #1 my floppy #2 my CD #3 my SATA. O.K.?

When I try to boot with my other 2 HDD connected I get the "No Bootable Disk
found"

When I disconnect the other two HDD the SATA disk boots just fine. Connect
one or both of the other HDD, and "No Bootable Disk found".

I know next to nothing about RAID configurations, so I suspect that must be
the problem. There is a message during the BIOS Start that flashes "Press F3
to enter RAID configuration", But I don't know what to do when I get there.

Any Help? Like I said All Three HDD were installed and working just fine,
untill I goofed-up something.

 

[Guest]

First,youre board by default will always try to boot the new IDE hard drives
you installed 1st,you need to configure the SATA drive as 1st boot device.Try
this,in BIOS,exit page,select,"load optimize defaults" or similiar,then go
back
into BIOS,advanced,boot priority,set add-in device (SATA) as
1st,exit,next,open
integrated peripherals or similiar,set to OnChip SATA-either enhanced or com-
bined mode,then save and exit BIOS.The F3 is for RAID only,2 SATA drives.Also
in boot device priority,forget floppy and cd,set to either as you use them.

 

[Guest]

Well Andrew, it worked! I don't know what I did, but I tried to follow your
instructions, although I really didn't understand what happened!

Now that I have the problem of my sata system drive booting-up how do I get
my 2 extra drives configured to have windows "see" them? They don't show up
in windows or in the BIOS.....?

Do you configure them with "RAID"?