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| Thread ID: 46920 | 2004-07-09 19:39:00 | Windows XP Home setup on SATA drive | chiefnz (545) | Press F1 |
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| 251133 | 2004-07-09 19:39:00 | Hi guys, Following on from my previous post on my new P4P800-SE mobo. I pressed F6 and managed to install the drivers for my new SATA drive and Windows setup went fine.... that is until the 1st reboot where everything went terribly wrong. Once Windows was finished copying the files it restarted my machine, but then it wouldn't boot and it said " no boot device available... windows could not start your hardware" In the Asus handbook for the P4P800-SE it gives instruction on how to create RAID sets, I'm assuming this means "formatting" and creating the various RAID "partitions" The manual goes on to say at the POST "press CTRL+l" to enter the RAID configuration utility. Now I have done this millions of times (well not really... but you know what I mean) and not once did the RAID configuration utility come up. What am I doing wrong? Someone please help me... I don't wanna be stuck with a SATA drive I can't even install Windows on. Any suggestions greatly appreciated. cheers chiefnz |
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| 251134 | 2004-07-09 20:12:00 | Are you sure your hard disk is set up correctly in bios? I'm not familiar with tour m/b, but I have sata on a gigabyte board and the only problem I had was persuading comp to boot from sata drive. I set up boot auto and let it sort itself out. I assume you have sata enabled selected in bios. Jack |
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| 251135 | 2004-07-10 02:02:00 | Yes SATA is enabled by default if there is a SATA drive connected to the board | chiefnz (545) | ||
| 251136 | 2004-07-10 04:48:00 | Ok I think I have figured something out. It would appear that if I wanted to configure the SATA drive for RAID, then'd I 'd have to press "CTRL+l" to set up the RAID sets. So I will try to disable the "setup as RAID" function and see how I go with that. If there is anyone out there who has the same mobo and a SATA drive (which is working) please post how you did your SATA drive setup and mention whether you're using the SATA drive as a RAID or in the IDE enhanced mode. cheers chiefnz |
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| 251137 | 2004-07-10 05:31:00 | I have a similar problem with a different motherboard. No way would it boot into the windows startup even though the RAID0 was there and the files existed. In the end I sent the drives away to the guy who sold me the MB with my CD key and he did an install of Windows onto a PATA drive (i did not have a spare one free) and then he simply copied it onto the RAID0 drive and away it went. |
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