A7N8X DLX booting from SATA

[AndrewJ]

I can see the SATA drive and use it in XP. Used the WD utility to copy
all the OS files from the C: drive to it for booting to the new drive.
If I unplug the IDE C: drive and try to bootup it says "OS problem".
1. Upgraded to 1008 BIOS, didn't help.
2. BIOS has SATA/SCSI boot choices but not in the IDE section.
3. Mobo has the jumpe rset to SATA enabled.
4. Cable used is the Primay ATA connection.
5. Have the SATA utility and drivers loaded. I can enter the SATA
utility at POST but it only gives RAID choices.

I ran RAID for over a year on another ASUS board. I can't believe how
hard it is to just boot to an SATA drive.

 

[peter]

Have you tried running a "repair" installation ? with the IDE unplugged
Is the SATA drive listed as the 2nd boot device with a CD/DVD as the 1st??
I run the same MOBO and when I switched to a SATA drive I basically did a new
installation during wich I loaded the SATA drivers.
I then formatted the IDE partition that had XP on it.
peter

 

[old man]

You've changed yr win o/s hardware, therefore you need to perform a repair
install

 

[AndrewJ]

You've changed yr win o/s hardware, therefore you need to perform a repair
install

Thanks to both of you. After unplugging all my IDE drives it boots
fine to the SATA drive. Just need to figure out how to add all my
other drives back.

 

[Paul Busby]

Thanks to both of you. After unplugging all my IDE drives it boots
fine to the SATA drive. Just need to figure out how to add all my
other drives back.

Reformat any IDE discs as extended volumes with logical drives as needed,
you'll then have no active partitions to worry about nor attempt to steal
drive letters already assigned to SATA.

Regards

 

[peter]

If you did the repair installation then the Master Boot record now resides on
the SATA drive and you should be able to boot properly with the IDE drives
plugged in.
peter

 

[AndrewJ]

If you did the repair installation then the Master Boot record now resides on
the SATA drive and you should be able to boot properly with the IDE drives
plugged in.
peter

No matter what I could not get repair to work. Four different times it
froze with 32 minutes to go. Sometimes I waited more than 40 minutes
before rebooting and each time it started back at zero and froze
again. I wonder if in some cases SP2 breakes the repair feature? If so
that will no come as a big shock to me.
Doing a clean install worked perfect so that's nice.

 

[peter]

I dont know..I have not done a repair with my slipstreamed XP/sp2 CD.....
peter