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ATA66/Win XP Pro

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TOCSYS

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Ok, I had to setup my HDD on the normal ATA33 channel because I could not get access to the required ATA66 drivers. After installing the ATA66 drivers and running every update for XP I shutdown and tried to switch over to the ATA66 channel. When the system started the XP boot process(after the bios post but before the Windows XP splash screen)I get a hardware boot error. It basically says that it cannot find the boot device. Is there somthing I have to do before switching to the ATA66 channel? Or am I a total dumb@$$ to think that I can do this at all without reformatting? 🙁
 
have you set the boot order correctly in bios as your ata controller may be seen as a scsi device & not an ide one by windows?
 
There is an option for IDE - 0, 1, 2 and 3. Those are just for the two IDE channels. Then there is a choice for ATA66 which is for the ATA66 channels. That's what I had it set to when I tried to boot. There is also an option for SCSI that I did not try but I don't think that is it.

*Update* I tried setting it to SCSI to see if that would work but no luck there. Right now I have it set to ATA66, CDROM, Floppy. The HDD is detected by the ata66 controller bios at boot up as well. Windows just can't seem to find the drive. Do I have to edit somthing in the boot.ini to get it working? Anyway, here is the error I receive:

"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware."
 
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