Want to boot to SATA drive?

[Guest]

I have a compaq work station, 2 giger Zeons. The mobo boots SCSI & IDE but no
sata. If I add a SATA card and drive and clean install XP Pro there, will it
bootup ok or do I have to have a 3rd party boot program to get this to
happen??

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I have a compaq work station, 2 giger Zeons. The mobo boots SCSI & IDE but no
sata. If I add a SATA card and drive and clean install XP Pro there, will it
bootup ok or do I have to have a 3rd party boot program to get this to
happen??

You will probably have to install drivers from the diskette that comes with
the SATA card, at the beginning of XP Install.

HTH
-pk

 

[Guest]

Hi and thx for the quick reply.

But after I install the card and it's drivers, install a fresh XP........ is
it going to boot up normally... or is it going to have to have a 3rd party
boot program?

 

[Lil' Dave]

Guess if your bios has selection of selecting which hard drive to boot from
vice which bus, sure.

If its an older bios that only has selection for scsi as alternate, maybe.
It has to "see" the SATA card's bios before the current scsi bios.
Dave

 

[Guest]

Thx dave; my bios menu doesn't have sata option, it will let me select scsi
or ide but it alwas first boots up a SCSI Intel boot agent showing all scsi
drives and then I have to hit F1 to get to the XP os.

I'm trying to someone thats installed a sata card & drive and has seen the
results. I guess i'm trying to save money... if it will not work then I will
not buy same.

 

[Timothy Daniels]

PATA ("IDE") cards also take their own drivers that have to be
loaded during OS installation, and the HDs connected to them
show up in the BIOS's Hard Drive Boot Order - allowing the
hard drives so connected to be put at the head of the HD boot
order and to thus be used for booting. I would expect that the
same situation holds for SATA cards.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Lil' Dave]

PATA ("IDE") cards also take their own drivers that have to be
loaded during OS installation, and the HDs connected to them
show up in the BIOS's Hard Drive Boot Order - allowing the
hard drives so connected to be put at the head of the HD boot
order and to thus be used for booting. I would expect that the
same situation holds for SATA cards.

*TimDaniels*

Here's a story to pass on to your friends. Not XP, but Millenium edition.
Using PQ DI 7.0 for imaging. I restored an image of ME to a SATA drive.
Set the SATA drive to boot etc. Ifshlp error, windows. The image file was
fine per DI.

So, attached the ide drive to a pci ide card. Set the PC to boot from that
drive. ME found new hardware as SATA drives were installed and enabled.
Rebooted as ME requested for the new hardware find. Imaged that partition.
The restore of ME with DI worked fine on the SATA drive. ME worked okay.
The ide card's drivers previously installed, not an issue.
Dave