Not recognizing install on SATA drive after installation

[Guest]

I have a PC with 1 ATA and 2 SATA.
The ATA is a storage disk; I had WinXP Pro on the 1st SATA.
I did a fresh install of Vista RC1 on the SATA allowing it to format it.
After it appeared to successfully install, I reboot, and I get:

BOOTMGR is missing.

If I boot the DVD and recover options, at it initially sees in the ATA drive
and it's calling it C:.
I have to load my SATA drivers manually for it to see the SATA drives, and
then it calls the partition with the Vista install F:.

Is there some way to get Vista to "see" the SATA drive at bootup?
Thanks!

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I'll bet you Vista put the bootloader on that PATA drive.

 

[Guest]

Yeah, OK. =) So, any ideas how to fix it? =)

I'll bet you Vista put the bootloader on that PATA drive.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Disconnect the drive and reinstall Vista on one of the SATA drives then
reconnect the PATA drive. We had several examples of this during TechBeta.
Vista is installed by WinPE and apparently it seeks PATA drives by default
for its workspace. I never understood the technical part of the discussion
but I remember that much.

 

[zaxon]

did you manage to install bootl loader again?

Well, that's what I ended up having to do, and it worked at least.
Now to see if I can reinstall GRUB and dual-boot again. =)
Thanks,
Liam

 

[mxh]

Coming in late on this, and sort of unrelated, but are SATA drivers needed
to do a clean install with Vista?

Thanks!

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Yes. The real question is do you need to provide them. It depends on your
mobo. Most of the ones I know of that have come out in the past couple of
years have SATA drivers in the firmware and you do not need to supply
drivers during Setup (with the Load Drivers button). Check your mobo
manufacturer's website. Raid drivers are another subject.

 

[Dale]

You are correct. My Intel board installed just fine on SATAII.

Dale

 

[Glenn]

I have the Intel D975XBX board, and am using two SATAII HDDs in a RAID. The
disks are on the primary controller, which Intel calls the Matrix Storage
Manager, I believe. I want to move up to Vista-64. Will I need to do te
"F6 and install drivers" routine, or would the board's firmware work for a
RAID also?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer...

Glenn

 

[mxh]

I just found both sata disks for my board, so I'm prepared either way. I've
been running an upgrade over XP due to QB06 incompatibilities, but have
picked up QB07 and am now ready to go. Thanks for the inupt.

mxh