Hugh, If you need extra drivers from a CD to be added to the OS install, then It appears that the BIOS/Motherboard does not include drivers for the SATA connections.
That means that the system won't access the drives at Boot time, so you will not be able to use them as a bootable drive You may, however be able to access them as the OS drive, by including a small bootable partition on your normal PATA drives, and just include a boot manager and appropriate drivers to access the SATA drives on that partition. Just remember, if you do that, then the SATA drives will not be bootable, so any backup for recovery purposes needs to be to a PATA drive, or include the boot manager partition. Re safe mode - you may be able to re-build your system, and include drivers from the hardware CD in the windows as system boot facilities, losing them from the system as viewed by the safe mode boot - which does not include any extra drivers should be expected if they are being accessed by windows using windows drivers that the safe boot doesn't include. That may, depending on which part of the boot facility is putting out the message, even allow a boot from the SATA drive My system boots from the Raid drive on IDE 3, but I had to partition that drive using the normal IDE channel before the BIOS would see it and install the 'optional' drivers for the Raid connections. You may find testing easier if you stick to trying to get the SATA to boot to DOS - that will show when the drivers are found/activated early enough in the start-up - when you have solved the problems for a DOS boot you can start 'playing' with the 2 hour windows boot JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hugh Gundersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 2:18 PM Subject: Re: HDDs On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:50:22 -0400, you wrote: Slight deviation here I have a couple of SATA HDDs that disappear when in SAFE mode? Also I have to manually load the drivers from the Gigabyte CD everytime I install XP (Which is not often as backups seem to work Ok) How do you get on with the SATA drivers on initial build as I would like to use the faster (sic) SATA drives as 0 & 1 and when starting I get the message "can't find Hdd" Perhaps I'm doing it arse about face as they say! Sir Hugh of Bognor Intelligence is not knowing the answer but knowing where and how to find it! Hugh Gundersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bognor-bill.co.uk Bognor Regis, W.Sussex, England, UK ------------------------------------------------- Vyisder Asmeni Orsisarsis Asderisorsis. B.Cozderiz Vunarz PERORZ ------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
