A7V8X - SATA Setup

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Dave Finley

I'm attempting to replace my existing IDE drive with a new Maxtor SATA
drive.

I tried the following:

- ran the auto setup for the Promise Fasttrack bios
- leaving my IDE in the system I rebooted
- in XP I loaded the Promise driver
- ran MaxBlast to copy everything from the IDE drive to the SATA drive

I then disconnected the IDE drive and attempted to boot from the SATA
drive. I got the initial Windows boot menu, but then the PC rebooted
itsself.

Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Dave
 
Dave said:
I'm attempting to replace my existing IDE drive with a new Maxtor SATA
drive.

I tried the following:

- ran the auto setup for the Promise Fasttrack bios
- leaving my IDE in the system I rebooted
- in XP I loaded the Promise driver
- ran MaxBlast to copy everything from the IDE drive to the SATA drive

I then disconnected the IDE drive and attempted to boot from the SATA
drive. I got the initial Windows boot menu, but then the PC rebooted
itsself.

Am I missing something?
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Your drive letters probably haven't changed when you expected them to. Not
sure how to fix that.

Ben
 
I believe I got the bios boot settings correct. It seems that it
starts booting XP (it gets to the XP boot menu) but then something
goes wrong.

Nitrof said:
you may also have to enable SATA in the BIOS.
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Boot with the XP CD and do a Repair Installation. Don't select the first
"R" - continue on as if you were going to do a clean full install. XP will
find your installation then you can select"Repair"
 
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