Partitionmagic and SATA

[RossAdamBaker]

Hello all,

My new problem is that I cannot get PartitionMagic 8.0 to work with my SATA WD Raptor drive. I have it hooked to the DFI Lanparty Ultra Rev B motherboard, which picks it up in the RAID BIOS, but from there on out no luck. I'm waiting for a copy of Win XP Pro to arrive in the mail so I can try the boot from cd, hit F6 to load drivers from a diskette thing. I'm wondering if there is any advantage to using partitionmagic, and if so... is there a "manually load drivers" feature to use when I'm booting off the disk so it identifies my hard drive? At the moment, it's only giving a "critical error" or "no drives present" type message. (I am running from the restore diskettes it made, as I do not yet have Windows loaded.)

Thanks!

Ross Adam Baker

 

[DaveSimmons]

The PM diskette is running on top of DOS, so it needs DOS SATA drivers loaded (or built in support).

There's no reason why you can't just wait for XP.

I used PM, and now Acronis Partition Expert, but it's moslty to do setups with multiple OSs in multiple primary partitions (hidden from each other) not for a single OS install.