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From: "Hugh Gundersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: HDDs
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
SATA and IDE hard drives show up in the same order as I understand SCCI hard
drives show up.
In the BIOS I have to select which drive I want the computer to boot to. If
I am running only a SATA drive and I hook up a IDE drive in addition, by
default the BIOS changes the IDE drive to the main drive or the one to boot
to. I have to remember this and go to the BIOS and change the main drive
back to the SATA drive every time I hook up an additional IDE drive to run
along with the SATA drive. Once I remove all IDE drives, the computer
automatically finds the SATA drive.
I am using the Asus P4P800 SE motherboard. The 2 SATA ports are always the
last ones listed in Setup, as the 5th and 6th ones, after the 4 IDE ports.
Once you have selected the hard drive you want as your main drive, usually
it will come ahead of other hard drives in the boot order. You still must
ensure there are no bootable devices with bootable media in them listed
ahead of the hard drive you want to boot to.
In building new computers I deal with the SATA drive from the beginning.
Even before any Windows mode (Safe or Normal) my BIOS has to see the new
SATA drive in order for it to be partitioned and formatted.
Could yours be some issue that your motherboard manufacturer does not
prepare you for as well as my Asus motherboard manufacturer? Or is it some
small setting that has not been done?
Chuck
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