Bios Not Detecting SATA

[jefers]

XP detected my wd 80 gig sata drive and Windows was installed just fine. Only problem, my bios does not recognize any sata drives. In order to boot, I have to boot from the XP installation disk. What do I do?

fyi
biostar 210p
athlon 64 3000
wd 80 gig sata

 

[kb3edk]

Did you remember to hit F6 (3rd party RAID drivers) during Windows install? Even though you are not running a RAID, it can be useful to do this for any SATA setup (although difficult, if you do not have a floppy drive).

If you have not already done so, you can download lots more useful information on your mobo here.

-Adam in Philly

 

[WiseOldDude]

Sounds like a BIOS issue, have you looked for an updated BIOS? I boot from a SATA drive, but the drive is recognized by the BIOS. Regardless of what drivers might be available, they are useless unless the BIOS cannot first find where the driver is stored, which in your case will be on the SATA drive that the BIOS does not see as a boot device.

 

[Longkid]

jefers. ive got a 210p and the SATA is not independently identified within the BIOS. Within the BIOS you will notice there are four IDE channels. IDE 0,1,2,3 with channel 2 and 3 being the SATA devices. Boot to bios. Select Advanced BIOS Features -> Boot Seq & Floppy Setup -> First Boot Device = Hard Disk. Then go back to Advanced Bios Features menu and go to Hard Disk Boot Priority and choose your hard disk.

Contrary to previous posts you will not need to load any 3rd party SATA drivers for the 210p to recongnise you SATA devices.

Let me know how it works.

 

[WPFossil]

Don't worry about F6 - if Windows recognized it, you don't have any issue there.

You need your BIOS to recognize the drive. You might need to either disable RAID in the BIOS or with a jumper on the board. Make sure also that all drives are set on auto-detect. Once the drive is recognized, make sure it is first in the boot order.