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Funky Child

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    Problem with SATA HDDs, barely detected!
    « on: December 25, 2008, 09:19:54 AM »
    Hey there, it's my first post on these forums :)

    I got this strange problem, I hope someone will be able to provide a solution to it.

    My SATA HDDs are detected in the BIOS and I could partially install Windows XP on this brand new 500GB HDD . Yet at startup when my computer looks for a media to boot from, it says there's no hard disk detected!? (hence why I couldn't complete the Windows XP install)

    It doesn't come from the cables nor the disks (I tried other ones).

    My motherboard is an Asus P5Q. I already messed with the SATA configuration in the BIOS and tried all settings available but it didn't help. :( I also updated the BIOS and it didn't help either.

    Could anyone provide help to this strange problem? Thanks in advance!
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    Re: Problem with SATA HDDs, barely detected!
    « Reply #1 on: December 25, 2008, 09:24:41 AM »
    Very early on in the install process there is a prompt to "PressF6 if additional drivers are needed"...
    At this point insert your MBoard driver CD for the SATA/RAID driver installation...
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      Re: Problem with SATA HDDs, barely detected!
      « Reply #2 on: December 25, 2008, 09:28:24 AM »
      Quote from: patio on December 25, 2008, 09:24:41 AM
      Very early on in the install process there is a prompt to "PressF6 if additional drivers are needed"...
      At this point insert your MBoard driver CD for the SATA/RAID driver installation...
      Thanks for the quick answer! :)

      But I thought this was only for Windows XP to detect SATA HDDs, which it did fine already? My problem happens when it searches for a media to boot from.
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      Re: Problem with SATA HDDs, barely detected!
      « Reply #3 on: December 25, 2008, 09:51:42 AM »
      Was this a real XP CD or the "sharpie" version ? ?
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        Re: Problem with SATA HDDs, barely detected!
        « Reply #4 on: December 25, 2008, 11:49:40 AM »
        Quote from: patio on December 25, 2008, 09:51:42 AM
        Was this a real XP CD or the "sharpie" version ? ?
        It's a 'real' CD in the sense it's pretty much unmodified. It probably had SATA drivers included since I could begin the installation on the HDD.

        Now, I have the weirdest thing ever. I just completed the installation on my 500GB HDD and am running Windows on it right now! BUT I can only boot on it if I have my IDE HDD on!

        So basically it still goes undetected at boot time... but then I boot into this very installation of Windows anyway *only* when my IDE hdd is on. It's almost as if it tries to boot on my IDE hdd and then it ends up booting my SATA one. This is really confusing.
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        Re: Problem with SATA HDDs, barely detected!
        « Reply #5 on: December 25, 2008, 11:56:38 AM »
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        It's a 'real' CD in the sense it's pretty much unmodified.

        Not the answer i was looking for... ::)
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          Re: Problem with SATA HDDs, barely detected!
          « Reply #6 on: December 25, 2008, 12:06:20 PM »
          Quote from: patio on December 25, 2008, 11:56:38 AM
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          It's a 'real' CD in the sense it's pretty much unmodified.

          Not the answer i was looking for... ::)
          It's a downloaded copy, yes. I owned Windows XP Familial a long time ago but lost the CD.

          Does this mean you don't want to help me anymore?  ??? If so I'll understand..
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          Re: Problem with SATA HDDs, barely detected!
          « Reply #7 on: December 25, 2008, 12:37:00 PM »
          It sounds like it is writing the boot sector to the IDE drive and it boots to the IDE but the IDE points it back to the SATA drive for Windows...
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