Windows recovery won't recognise Serial ATA drive

[RobW]

Hi all,

I have an XP installation on a WD Raptor 36g Serial ATA drive and the
Windows Recovery disk won't recognise it.
I booted the system with a Linix (Knoppix) disk and can see the
partitions and the filesystem.
The system was working fine then 1 day when booting came up with;
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or
corrupt:
\windows\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
The system is XP SP2 and I am using a tested and true SP2 slipstreamed
CD.
Has anyone got any idea why the recovery console can't see the disk?

TIA
Robert

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Hi all,

I have an XP installation on a WD Raptor 36g Serial ATA drive and the
Windows Recovery disk won't recognise it.
I booted the system with a Linix (Knoppix) disk and can see the
partitions and the filesystem.
The system was working fine then 1 day when booting came up with;
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or
corrupt:
\windows\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
The system is XP SP2 and I am using a tested and true SP2 slipstreamed
CD.
Has anyone got any idea why the recovery console can't see the disk?

TIA
Robert
.you must load the serial ata driver whenever you want

to reach the recovery console or boot off the disk so
your tried and true slipstreamed disk must not be loading
the driver

 

[RobW]

to reach the recovery console or boot off the disk so
your tried and true slipstreamed disk must not be loading
the driver

I didn't have to do that in the first place to load XP. That's what
has me confused. As far as I know there is no "extra" drivers needed
for XP to see the SATA drive.

 

[Vagabond Software]

Hi all,

I have an XP installation on a WD Raptor 36g Serial ATA drive and the
Windows Recovery disk won't recognise it.
I booted the system with a Linix (Knoppix) disk and can see the
partitions and the filesystem.
The system was working fine then 1 day when booting came up with;
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or
corrupt:
\windows\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
The system is XP SP2 and I am using a tested and true SP2 slipstreamed
CD.
Has anyone got any idea why the recovery console can't see the disk?

This sounds like you need a driver diskette for your SATA controller card. Download the drivers and write them to a floppy. When you boot on the XP CD, you'll be prompted to press F6 if you wish to load additional drivers. Do that and insert your driver diskette.

If you don't believe that is the problem, then I can only suggest checking all the physical connections for the drive, power and data cables, and motherboard. If you have the drive in a removeable drive bay, make sure the bay is locked and remove the key.

Good Luck,

carl

 

[RobW]

Thank-you
You guys were correct, it needed a driver for the onboard raid on the
asus A7V600.
Loading up XP now.
Cheers,
Rob