How to boot on a SATA drive ?

[Adrien]

Hello,
I ve got the P4P800 deluxe mobo, 1 sata drive (160Go) and several others
pata (120+80). The Ide Configuration is set like that : 'enhanced
mode'/Sata/No raid.
I put the sata drive as disk 1 but it doesn't want to boot... No message,
black screen.
How can i do to boot on the sata ?
I you have an idea, thanks ;-)

 

[Doug Ramage]

Hello,
I ve got the P4P800 deluxe mobo, 1 sata drive (160Go) and several others
pata (120+80). The Ide Configuration is set like that : 'enhanced
mode'/Sata/No raid.
I put the sata drive as disk 1 but it doesn't want to boot... No message,
black screen.
How can i do to boot on the sata ?
I you have an idea, thanks ;-)

Have you set the boot option to SCSI in the BIOS? Have you loaded the SATA
drivers - via F6 and floppy drive when you installed Windows?

 

[Adrien]

Have you set the boot option to SCSI in the BIOS?

On the P4P800 motherboard there's no SCSI option. You just have to set the
order of the drives.

Have you loaded the SATA
drivers - via F6 and floppy drive when you installed Windows?

The drive do not boot but is recognized if i boot on a another drive with
DOS or Win xp. Why ?....

 

[Doug Ramage]

On the P4P800 motherboard there's no SCSI option. You just have to set the
order of the drives.


The drive do not boot but is recognized if i boot on a another drive with
DOS or Win xp. Why ?....

The quickest way to boot from a new SATA drive is to use a program like
Ghost to clone the PATA drive which currently has your XP OS on it to the
new SATA drive (assuming enough space), after you have installed the SATA
drivers via Device Manager. Then change the boot option to SCSI in the BIOS.

This is what I did, rather than a fresh install of Windows XP, and it took
less than 30 minutes.

 

[Adrien]

The quickest way to boot from a new SATA drive is to use a program like

Ghost to clone the PATA drive which currently has your XP OS on it to the
new SATA drive (assuming enough space), after you have installed the SATA
drivers via Device Manager. Then change the boot option to SCSI in the BIOS.

This is what I did, rather than a fresh install of Windows XP, and it took
less than 30 minutes.

Yes, i did it exactly with Ghost. Then i rebooted and declared the sata
drive as the first one but it didn't boot.
If the drive is not as the first place, it s recognized without problem.
Then i tried to erase on the sata drive the partitions, i created a new one
with fdisk, i activated, put the sata drive as the first one, but there s no
amelioration. Black screen after the post, without message... :-(

Who has the P2P800 mobo and who has successfully configured a SATA drive as
the first one (with another pata drives) ?...
Is there a web site which explain this difficulty ? I tried to find one....
Thank you very much for the explanations. ;-)

 

[Doug Ramage]

Yes, i did it exactly with Ghost. Then i rebooted and declared the sata
drive as the first one but it didn't boot.
If the drive is not as the first place, it s recognized without problem.
Then i tried to erase on the sata drive the partitions, i created a new one
with fdisk, i activated, put the sata drive as the first one, but there s no
amelioration. Black screen after the post, without message... :-(

Who has the P2P800 mobo and who has successfully configured a SATA drive as
the first one (with another pata drives) ?...
Is there a web site which explain this difficulty ? I tried to find one....
Thank you very much for the explanations. ;-)

Did you just copy the partition with OS on it, or did you *clone* the whole
drive? Only cloning worked for me.

 

[Adrien]

Did you just copy the partition with OS on it, or did you *clone* the
whole

drive? Only cloning worked for me.

I cloned of course all the drive, but without success...
160Go is perhaps too much to be recognized for a boot drive ?

 

[Leythos]

The quickest way to boot from a new SATA drive is to use a program like
Ghost to clone the PATA drive which currently has your XP OS on it to the
new SATA drive (assuming enough space), after you have installed the SATA
drivers via Device Manager. Then change the boot option to SCSI in the BIOS.

This is what I did, rather than a fresh install of Windows XP, and it took
less than 30 minutes.

Some motherboards with SATA require a driver in order to use the SATA
controller - before you make the clone, install the SATA driver and then
make the clone.

 

[Adrien]

Some motherboards with SATA require a driver in order to use the SATA

controller - before you make the clone, install the SATA driver and then
make the clone.

This p4p800 not.

 

[Doug Ramage]

I cloned of course all the drive, but without success...
160Go is perhaps too much to be recognized for a boot drive ?

Possibly - my SATA drive is only 120Gb. What boot option have you set in the
BIOS?

 

[John Smith]

Some random thoughts:

Try resetting the BIOS (Exit->LoadSetupDefaults),
then disable all drives but the SATA (on IDE-3).

Do you have an ACTIVE PRIMARY partition with XP (the
only O/S supported) on the SATA ?

Try with the SATA (on IDE-3) and a CD (on Master IDE-1),
and boot the Windows XP CD (this should automatically be
the first boot disk). You only need to install to the first
re-boot to see if it is going to work.

J.Smith

 

[Adrien]

It's ok now, my sata boots correctly at the first place, one program called
xosl was faulty and needed to be reinstalled.
Thanks you very very much fort the help ;-)

 

[Doug Ramage]

It's ok now, my sata boots correctly at the first place, one program called
xosl was faulty and needed to be reinstalled.
Thanks you very very much fort the help ;-)

Glad to hear it's OK now.