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Booting from Sata Harddrive

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blade8079

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Hi:

I've just bought a new sata harddrive (wd reptor 74 gb sata) and tried installing it on my system in order to format and run windows from it

win2kpro
asus a8n-e board
currently have 4 hds

3 sata and 1 ide for storage
i plugged in the drive - setup found it - i formatted it -installed windows on it (blue screen mode)- once it rebooted for the first time it said boot failure.

I made it first on the list for boot priority and plugged in sata 1 master (total of 4 sata jacks). I tried making second ide as master and slave - nothing helps

cd with windows boots fine but this drive just won't boot although the bios detects it fine.

I'm puzzled. Also setup gave it a letter J: for the partition. Maybe i should try make it "C"? since it's gonna be the system drive. Any idea if this makes sense and how to do it if needed?

Thanks!

Rex
 
Assuming you want to install Windows on SATA only and not have a dual-boot, remove all the other drives except SATA, go into BIOS and make the SATA drive appear on the boot priority list ahead of your floppy and optical drives, and re-install Windows again on SATA.

After installation is finished, Windows will be on C. Then, connect your other drives, go into BIOS and make sure that SATA is still the first in the boot priority list. Now, the other drives will show up as D, E, ..... and you should be fine.
 
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