Booting a serial ata HD problem

[User1001]

I was running my Serial ata HD (wd raptor) in compatiblity mode (re-routes the serial ata to the ide bus) and I decided I wanted to run directly on the serial bus. I switched the setting in the bios and the after post the windows starts to boot (with the green meter at the bottom) and all of the sudden, for a split second, a blue screen with words appear and the computer restarts (its to fast to read). I tried in safe mode with the same results. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.

 

[User1001]

anyone?

 

[Double Trouble]

Yep, what's happening is that XP needs to have the right drivers installed to use the drive from the serial controller.

What you had before was XP running off the drive as a 'normal' ATA drive on ATA channel 0. When you 'switch' to make it run as a true serial drive, XP will give you the quick blue screen and restart because it does not have the right drivers installed. As far as XP is concerned, the serial controller is a RAID or SCSI controller and requires 3rd party drivers (the drivers are not natively built into xp).

There's two ways (that I know of) that this can be fixed. First, you can do a clean install of XP on this drive as a true serial drive. When starting the install, XP will have a line at the bottom of the screen that reads something like "press F6 now if you need to install 3rd party raid or scsi drivers". Press F6. When prompted, provide the drivers for the serial controller (you can get them from your mobo maker or serial controller maker's site). If you install XP this way, everything will work fine.

The other way is to boot your system with the drive rerouted as an ATA drive, and install the serial bus drivers on your system. Then, switch the drive to serial mode and reboot, it should work OK.

 

[JonathanF]

I have a ASUS P4PE Motherboard with a WDC 120 GB IDE Disk.

The Computer System is running Microsoft Windows XP Pro.

I just purchased a WDC 250 GB SATA Drive from NewEgg, but it only came as an OEM Drive without any Software or Manuals.

I want to know the best way to transfer the entire contents of the WDC 120 GB IDE Disk Drive to the new WDC 250 BG SATA Drive.

1. Can I use the "Ghost" Software to Ghost the entire contents of the 120 GB IDE Drive to the 250 GB SATA Drive?

2. Will I be able to boot up with a DOS Boot Floppy to use Ghost Software from its own Floppy, and will the Computer System be able to recognize the WDC 250 GB SATA Drive in DOS Mode?

3. Where is the best place to get the Software Device Drivers for the WDC 250 GB SATA Drive, since I purhased the WDC SATA Drive from Newegg as an OEM Drive with no Software?

Are the SATA Device Drivers from ASUS, Micorsoft, etc?

Thank You.

Jonathan

 

[boomerang]

Originally posted by: JonathanF
I have a ASUS P4PE Motherboard with a WDC 120 GB IDE Disk.

The Computer System is running Microsoft Windows XP Pro.

I just purchased a WDC 250 GB SATA Drive from NewEgg, but it only came as an OEM Drive without any Software or Manuals.

I want to know the best way to transfer the entire contents of the WDC 120 GB IDE Disk Drive to the new WDC 250 BG SATA Drive.

1. Can I use the "Ghost" Software to Ghost the entire contents of the 120 GB IDE Drive to the 250 GB SATA Drive?

2. Will I be able to boot up with a DOS Boot Floppy to use Ghost Software from its own Floppy, and will the Computer System be able to recognize the WDC 250 GB SATA Drive in DOS Mode?

3. Where is the best place to get the Software Device Drivers for the WDC 250 GB SATA Drive, since I purhased the WDC SATA Drive from Newegg as an OEM Drive with no Software?

Are the SATA Device Drivers from ASUS, Micorsoft, etc?

Thank You.

Jonathan

I have the same board.

First, make sure you have installed the Promise FastTrack 376 drivers from your installation CD into your existing XP installation. These are properly installed if you have a SCSI or SCSI and RAID controllers entry in Device Manger. There are no special drivers for SATA. For the SATA drive to work on your system, all you need are the 376 drivers.

I have no personal experience using Ghost and a SATA drive. I seem to remember others having problems but may be wrong on that. I'm certain that either Ghost or a utility avaliable from the WD site will do the job for you.

 

[JonathanF]

My Computer has an ASUS P4PE Motherboard that is running Windows XP Pro on a WDC 120 GB IDE Disk Drive.

I just purchased a WDC 250 GB Serial ATA Disk Drive, and even though the Computer's BIOS recognizes the Disk Drive, my Windows XP System cannot recognize the Disk Drive.

In my Computer's Windows Device Manager and under the SCSI and RAID Controllers the WinXP Promise FastTrak 376 Controller is listed.

How I can get my existing Windows XP Pro to recognize the WDC 250 GB Serial ATA Disk Drive?

After that, can I boot up my Computer in the DOS mode to use a Ghost Floppy to Ghost my existing WDC 120 GB IDE Disk Drive's "C" Partition to my new WDC 250 GB Serial ATA Disk Drive's "C" Partition.

Jonathan

 

[boomerang]

So when booting do you get the BIOS screen for the MBFastTrack376?

Does it come up and say No array defined?

Look here for more information. The second to last post will be most helpful.