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viking44 · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:46 pm Post subject: SATA

Sat down to load up my new SATA drive today but for some reason my computer is not recognising the SATA, I have turned on the SATA drives in the BIOS but still not joy, the drive is showing up in the sytem list but has the yellow question mark on it - any ideas?
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GRIM · Need To Get Out More ! Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 965

go back to work, its cheaper!
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viking44 · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject:

OK I can see the device and have disconnected my 2 IDE drives and installed the SATA all is well, except 2 things:

1. On the SATA I cannot connect to the Internet from my router, all the lights are on the cable is connected and nothing?

2. The moment I put the and of the IDE back in I the machine books from them not the SATA although the SATA has XP on it not the others, in the BIOS I have configured the SATA to boot first but one the IDE is back in it chooses that?

All solutions welcome!
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viking44 · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject:

Smurf just for you ill, write it again when I'm sober
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wozzer · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject:

what are the ide drive jumpers set as and did you adjust the boot seqence etc.........

if you want real help ask don not smurf tho.........lmfao
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Don1 · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject:

When your sober, tell me what mother board you have (make/model) and what connector the SATA drive is connected to.
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viking44 · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:21 pm Post subject:

OK, sober now [smilie=new_all_coholic.gif] I have a ASUS A8N32SLI Deluxe and the SATA is connected to SATA port 1. I now have it registering on my computer and can get internet. I have set the IDE to slave and only have one connected now. Just about to boot onto the SATA and install a fresh Win XP onto it. Ill report when I get back on
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Don1 · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject:

In the bios, you need to goto the BOOT menu. There you can set the device priority. And then set the boot order. Just ensure that the IDE devices are not at the top.

The order of the devices on the IDE doesn't matter, i.e. the IDE hard drive can be either master or slave, it won't affect the SATA at all.

Also, you may need the drivers on floppy BEFORE you install XP. RTFM to achieve this.
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Walter · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:51 pm Post subject:

just as I thought!
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Don1 · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 1:52 pm Post subject:

viking44 · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject:

All done thanks for the advice, yours was a great help Walt
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viking44 · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject:

Now populating the SATA, do I have to re-install all the games or can I drag them from the IDE to the SATA?
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Don1 · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject:

If you have installed XP fresh then you'll have to install everything again.

I would have used Ghost or Acronis and imaged the drive ! Confused

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Walter · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject:

I could have told you that.
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smurf_killer · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject:

Woz go jump off a cliff, cos you obviously will do it better than anyone else ffs....
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