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Problems Booting Windows from an SATA HD

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whitehotdawn

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I posted this in the Technical Support Forum but I had no responces, maybe the people in GH will have some ideas:

I just built a new computer with a Shuttle SFF (SB75G2). I connected my old HD-1 (IDE) with windows on and continued to set up a fresh install of WinXP from a disk. The new installation went onto a new Seagate 160GB SATA drive. Windows booted properly from this installation giving me a dual boot option. Then I disconnected the (IDE) HD-1 and connected another IDE HD-2 that did not have Windows installed. I transfered files from that HD-2 to my new one and everything worked just fine. Windows booted properly with both HDs connected. Then I disconnected the HD-2 (without Windows on it) and reconnected the IDE cable to my Plextor CD/DVD drive (I originally had the CD drive set as the slave, but when I removed the HD-2 I set it as the master and altered the jumpers for that configuration). But when I finally tried to reboot I got an error saying that it could not load the OS and instructed me to insert the Windows disk. I tried adjusting the setting in my BIOS- boot order, IDE configuration, ATA configuration, but nothing seemed to work. Then just as a test to make sure my windows was completely dead, I put the HD-2 without Windows installed back in and everything booted up just fine.

I have no idea what is going on because originally when I installed Windows I had HD-1 connected, but then I put in HD-2 to transfer some file, so it's not like I accidently installed Windows on that HD.

Any Advise would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
sean.
 
That's weird. It's like Windows automagically wrote boot files to the second IDE drive when you changed drives.
Like Chunkee said, it's critical to have SATA drivers installed. Be sure to load them when booting from the CD to get into the rescue system.
BIOS should be set to boot from SATA if you have that option, SCSI otherwise. Even if all that is right, it may not work. Neither of my mobos will boot from the SATA, so I have a partition of my primary IDE drive dedicated to boot files and swap space.
Then again, maybe the problem is that Windows writes its boot files to the primary partition on the primary master IDE drive by default, and you just need to run the FIXBOOT command with the right options to write it to the SATA.
 
As I found out just copying the drive files are not enough, It seems you don't have the Master boot record. I found I needed to do a clone of the system drive ( I put it on cd's) with ghost and then put the clone onto my sata raid. When I did this I made sure I disconnected the original IDE drive ( this might not be needed but it worked for me). And follow Zelmo3 adivce on boot sequence
 
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