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| 821396 | 2009-10-17 09:03:00 | Hi all, having trouble with detecting hard drive that has Win7 O/S installed. I have 4x1TB SATA HD and 1x500GB HD (this has Win7 O/S) plus a DVD drive. 2 of the SATA drives are new and I attempted to install these. I had to unplug the red SATA plugs and power connections to the existing HD's and move things around to fit the 2 new drives. When I booted up I could see 4 of the 5 HD in the POST (POST only listed SATA 1 to 4 although I have SATA 1-6 ports on the mb - SATA 1-4 are coloured red and 5-6 black according to the mb manual) and when it would normally start Windows I received the following error... "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter". I then removed all drives except the DVD drive and the drive containing the OS and still received the same error. The HD is connected to the red SATA1 port on the mb - is that correct? I dont know much about SATA. IDE has Primary and Slave PINS on the drive but it appears SATA doesnt have that concept so Im not sure whether the drive should be connected to SATA1 and the Bios knows SATA1 has to be the boot drive - or is the SATA connection used on the mb irrelevant? If I go into the BIOS setup I can see the HD and there doesnt appear to be any settings in the Boot menu option to select a particular drive, just set the boot order (i.e. HD, optical, floppy etc). Any ideas why Windows isnt detecting the HD even though it has O/S installed? If I damaged the SATA connection I presume it wouldnt show in the Bios. cheers, Graham |
Parry (5696) | ||
| 821397 | 2009-10-17 09:24:00 | What Motherboard is this? There should be an option to select the priorities of the HDs. | Blam (54) | ||
| 821398 | 2009-10-17 09:41:00 | ASUS M3N-HT. A setting where - on the mb itself or the BIOS. | Parry (5696) | ||
| 821399 | 2009-10-17 09:45:00 | The BIOS | Blam (54) | ||
| 821400 | 2009-10-17 21:00:00 | Im only trying to boot from one drive, just to get OS started. Once I can get this then I will put the other drives back one by one but I cant get O/S to boot. In the BIOS it does have priority but as theres only 1 disk attached this is the first priority. So I presume you are saying the boot drive is determined by the BIOS for SATA and whether you use SATA1-x ports for the connection doesnt matter. Any other ideas. I doubt its a BIOS or software issue as everything was fine before disconnecting so its a hardware issue of some sort. cheers, Graham |
Parry (5696) | ||
| 821401 | 2009-10-17 21:06:00 | Original Removed Edited: Think I may have located a problem -- Read the Manual -Page 2-37 (www.imagef1.net.nz) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 821402 | 2009-10-18 01:40:00 | Good spot thanks for that, I never noticed this requirement. I will need to do this before installing the other devices but just cant get the OS disk alone to work using SATA ports 1-4. Nevermind, might have to take it into a computer shop on Monday to see if they can sort it. Thanks very much for taking the time to respond. regards, Graham |
Parry (5696) | ||
| 821403 | 2009-10-18 01:52:00 | Try this - boot from the Windows 7 DVD, let it load s if doing a fresh install, BUT awhh hell -- Follow these instructions (www.sevenforums.com) - cant be bothered writing it all out :p BUT before you do, load up the BIOS again, and restore it back to default settings (there is a key combo to press, it will say what keys) I have deleted the manual so cant advice. | wainuitech (129) | ||
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