MSI K7NS Delta, SATA and Windows Server 2003

[GregRad]

The system has been running off IDE drives fine. I decided to switch to SATA drives, I was planning on using windows to mirrir the IDE drive onto the SATA drive and then remove the IDE drive (hoping it all works-have had good luck with windows mirroring lately).
However, I cannot even get the SATA drive recognized by windows. The bios sees the SATA drive fine, but the device manager does not nor does computer management console.
I have checked and updated all drivers/bios. The Promise controller is seen by Windows in the devie manager and I did install the S2k3 driver.
Is it not possible to run the IDE and SATA drives at the same time? Is this a compatability issue with S2k3? Any ideas?
The online manual reads incorrectly for my revision of the motherboard and I cannot seem to fine the one that came with the board.
Cheers
Greg

Well, doing too many things at once...I intended to post this in motherboard forum, not tech support...please move...thanks

 

[Fern]

Dunno, but here's a free bump for you.

Fern

 

[corkyg]

Have you installed your SATA/RAID option in BIOS/ It then has its own BIOS, and then you have to install the right driver in Windows. The RAID Bios loads right after POST before Windows starts. It has to be there for Windows to load its own driver. You7 have to set up a RAID array - even for 1 drive.

Yes - IDE and SATA drives run together just fine. I have three IDEs and one SATA. The SATA is a one drive RAID 0 array. The Promise driver is loaded into Windows.