XP on SATA: bios problem?

[Sjoerd]

Im trying to make a fresh XP installation onto a SATA disk.

When i put in the XP CD, everything works out fine. The install program
recognizes my HD and copies the necessary files onto the HD (apr. 700 mb)

Then i have to reboot. this is where the trouble starts. rebooting result in
going back to the XP install menu giving me the option to start copying
files all over again.

It appears that the BIOS doesnt try to boot from my HD. Having no experience
what so ever with SATA, (only IDE) i dont have a clue on what to do now. can
anybody help me?

thx !

 

[beenthere]

Im trying to make a fresh XP installation onto a SATA disk.

When i put in the XP CD, everything works out fine. The install program
recognizes my HD and copies the necessary files onto the HD (apr. 700 mb)

Then i have to reboot. this is where the trouble starts. rebooting result
in going back to the XP install menu giving me the option to start copying
files all over again.

It appears that the BIOS doesnt try to boot from my HD. Having no
experience what so ever with SATA, (only IDE) i dont have a clue on what
to do now. can anybody help me?

thx !

Try removing the CD as the computer reboots.

 

[Sjoerd]

Try removing the CD as the computer reboots.

That is, of course, the first thing i did

but it wont work.

 

[jonfaquit]

Go into your BIOS setup & make sure your boot device order includes
this particular drive.

 

[beenthere]

That is, of course, the first thing i did

but it wont work.

Sounds like the BIOS isn`t recognising your SATA.
Check in the BIOS for your drive.
You could even boot with a WinME boot disk, to see if
you can see the drive.

 

[JAD]

boot order in the bios..include the sata in the list

 

[Sjoerd]

Go into your BIOS setup & make sure your boot device order includes
this particular drive.

Thanks for the answer.

The problem is i cant specify the SATA disk. i can only choose 'HD' in the
boot sequence.

it appears to me the BIOS doesnt recognize the SATA disk.

 

[FG]

Depending on your motherboard, you may have to press F6 when
the installation process asks for additional drivers. They
have to be on a diskette. They usually can be found on your
installation CD.

Do you have an A8NX board ? With newer boards the
necessary drivers are pre-loaded by the chipset.

 

[jonfaquit]

The BIOS menu that enables you to set the time, do you see the hard
drive settings set up there? Is it set to auto? Is this a stock SATA
install (e.g., mobo natively supports SATA w/o any addon cards)?

Also make sure that the SATA setting somehwer in the BIOS setup is set
to SATA (no that's not a typo). When I first dealt with SATA, my drive
wasn't coming up and that was because the SATA controller setting was
set to RAID.

 

[Sjoerd]

Thanks for the answer.

The problem is i cant specify the SATA disk. i can only choose 'HD' in the
boot sequence.

it appears to me the BIOS doesnt recognize the SATA disk.

PROBLEM SOLVED!

It was a weird motherboard problem:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/FAQ_List.aspx?FAQID=4651

appearantly the manufacturer thinks nobody hooks up only one SATA HD and
sets up the BIOS by default fpr multiple disks by default, making it
impossible to function without changing the BIOS.

WEIRD !

well anyways, i'mhappy its working, thanks for the input!

 

[jonfaquit]

Cool...just what I posted...

 

[jonfaquit]

RAID was default for my board too.

 

[DaveW]

You have to go into your motherboard's BIOS at computer startup and select
the "Boot From" drive to be the SATA.

 

[Ed Medlin]

RAID was default for my board too.

It was on this system too and I damn near went nuts until I found that
switch in the bios (Raid/IDE). I wanted 4 seperate SATA HDDs and not a raid
array and it kept trying to make me set up Raid....... This was the first
all SATA HDD system I had done, and I was ready to toss it out the window
for awhile there..........

Ed