A7n8x: Force boot from SATA?

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I had Windows XP installed on a IDE drive but that drive started to go bad
and I replaced it with a SATA drive. Now I would like to attempt to recover
the data off the drive if possible but when I connect the old drive it
attempts to boot from the old drive rather than the new drive. Is there a
way to force it to boot from the SATA?
 
Jeff Adams said:
I had Windows XP installed on a IDE drive but that drive started to go bad
and I replaced it with a SATA drive. Now I would like to attempt to
recover
the data off the drive if possible but when I connect the old drive it
attempts to boot from the old drive rather than the new drive. Is there a
way to force it to boot from the SATA?
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Don't know about your board, but the K8V lets you choose which drive is the
boot drive from the BOOT section of the BIOS or by pressing F8 during the
POST.

Failing that, just add a line to the boot.ini file on the IDE drive.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP x86_64
Professional" /fastdetect

You'll recognize most of the stuff from your boot.ini. The second line gives
the choice of booting from the first partition of the second drive - which
would be your SATA drive.
 
Don't know about your board, but the K8V lets you choose which drive is
the
boot drive from the BOOT section of the BIOS or by pressing F8 during the
POST.
Click to expand...

the a7n8x allows the same. The problem is it seems to ignore the SATA
unless a IDE is not present. Changing the BIOS boot drive does nothing.
And hitting f8 only shows 1 bootable OS.
Failing that, just add a line to the boot.ini file on the IDE drive.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP x86_64
Professional" /fastdetect
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This will probably work, but the problem is I can't edit this file if I
can't boot the computer. The only way is with a floppy and unfortunately it
doesn't see a c:\ drive when I boot from a floppy. Is there a way to get
the boot loader to run from a floppy?
 
Did you load the SATA drivers during the XP install onto the SATA drive??
peter
Jeff Adams said:
Don't know about your board, but the K8V lets you choose which drive is the
boot drive from the BOOT section of the BIOS or by pressing F8 during the
POST.
Click to expand...

the a7n8x allows the same. The problem is it seems to ignore the SATA
unless a IDE is not present. Changing the BIOS boot drive does nothing.
And hitting f8 only shows 1 bootable OS.
Failing that, just add a line to the boot.ini file on the IDE drive.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP x86_64
Professional" /fastdetect
Click to expand...

This will probably work, but the problem is I can't edit this file if I
can't boot the computer. The only way is with a floppy and unfortunately it
doesn't see a c:\ drive when I boot from a floppy. Is there a way to get
the boot loader to run from a floppy?
Click to expand...
 
Finally figured it out. I had to set the boot drive to SCSI (which I had
done before) and then use the f8 key.

Jeff
 
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