Boolting From An SATA HDD

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Gary Brown

Hi,

My main drive (EIDE) is failing. I want to replace it with an SATA drive.
My BIOS lists HDD-0 .. HDD-3 as boot options with HDD-0 being the
current boot disk. Do HDD-2 and HDD-3 refer to the 2 SATA ports?

MB is Asus A7N8X V2 Deluxe with Award/Phoenix Technologies BIOS
Rev 1006 08/19/2003.

Thanks,
Gary
 
I'm not trying to steer you the wrong way but I've heard many posters refer
to using SCSI as the boot device when setting up a first SATA drive and
then upon beginning XP installation the need to install the SATA controller
driver by hitting the F6 key. The driver needs to be ready on a 3.5" floppy.
Maybe the Asus manual has some information that could clarify.
 
I'm not trying to steer you the wrong way but I've heard many posters refer
to using SCSI as the boot device when setting up a first SATA drive and
then upon beginning XP installation the need to install the SATA controller
driver by hitting the F6 key. The driver needs to be ready on a 3.5" floppy.
Maybe the Asus manual has some information that could clarify.
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I have the A7N8X-Dlx motherboard and am using SATA. Yes, use SCSI as
your boot up disk. Also make sure that the SATA jumper is set
correctly or it won't even look for a SATA disk on boot-up.

If you're going to be installing Windows, be sure that you have the
SATA drivers on floppy disk (it must be a floppy, since it won't
recognize optical media) and use the F-6 option when the Windows
install process first begins. If you don't do this, Windows won't even
realize that your SATA drive exists.

Sam
 
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