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Added SATA hard drive to K8N-E

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coolhand78

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I was originally running my system off a lone IDE hard drive, which worked fine, until I needed to add some extra storage so I bought a Seagate 160Gb SATA drive. I added it and it installed fine in XP; I can see and use the drive (although it's annoyingly detected as a removable drive) but the BIOS doesn't seem to recognize it. It doesn't appear anywhere and I can't chose to boot from it. My system has also been hanging at the drive detection stage of my booting up. I'm at wit's end to try and find a solution to the problem and was hoping someone to help out.
The drive is connected to the SATA 1 controller on a K8N-E board and SATA support is enabled in the BIOS. The IDE hard drive is the primary master on IDE and, although I still boot from it, I would like to switch everything over and boot from the new drive.
Thanks for any help...

coolhand
 
As it is, I want to leave the IDE drive as my boot drive; I just want my computer to not hang at the BIOS screen when I boot. Do you think putting it as slave would help? As it is, the SATA drive doesn't even show up in the BIOS but works in XP.
Thanks for the suggestion...I'll give it a try.
 
Try this, for starters: go into the BIOS menus, to the BOOT menu, and in the Boot Device Priority menu, ensure that it's set for the correct hard drive.
 
Oddly enough, the SATA drive doesn't even show up in the Boot Device Priority menu. The only devices that are there are my optical drive and the IDE drive. I really don't understand why it is that Windows can find the drive but the BIOS doesn't. Having read a bunch of SATA-related threads, I figured that, if I had any problems, it would be the other way around.
Thanks a lot for the suggestions guys; keep 'em coming.
 
Ok, second step is to go into the BIOS and make sure that the onboard nVidia SATA controller is not in RAID mode. Go to the Advanced > Chipset > Onboard Device menu and ensure that the RAID Option ROM is set to disabled. I believe that will make the SATA1 and SATA2 ports act like standard PATA for all intents and purposes.

After doing that, save & exit the BIOS, then go right back in on the next POST and look at the Boot Device Priority menu and see if you have a choice of two hard drives now.
 
Originally posted by: coolhand78
Oddly enough, the SATA drive doesn't even show up in the Boot Device Priority menu. The only devices that are there are my optical drive and the IDE drive. I really don't understand why it is that Windows can find the drive but the BIOS doesn't. Having read a bunch of SATA-related threads, I figured that, if I had any problems, it would be the other way around.
Thanks a lot for the suggestions guys; keep 'em coming.
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That is because WinXP usually overrides the settings in the BIOS, based
on what HAL is loaded.
 
I just tried disabling the RAID function in the BIOS (it was enabled) but it hasn't changed anything. I still get a relatively long pause at bootup (about 15 seconds) before the computer boots normally. Anymore ideas, guys?
Thanks again.
 
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