Running PATA HD in SATA on a NF7-S v2.0

[Cdubneeddeal]

Not too long ago I got a virus that delted my MBR so I had to format via the Silicon tools but I formatted in "Large". Now I can't get my system to boot up with it in SATA but will boot up just dandy in PATA. I installed the latest drivers for the SATA but still no go. However, I don't have a floppy drive so I just installed the drivers through windows by "Updating drivers".

Anyone have this type of problem or anything remotely similar?

Or anyone have any problems booting up with one HD via the onboard SATA? If so, how did you fix it?

 

[eydolic]

Is it just not booting off of the drive, or is booting and failing somehow? I assume that you are using the Serillel adapter that only works about 75% of the time? Why are you running a single IDE drive on SATA? Your speed will not increase because you're stuck to the basic limitations of the IDE interface to begin with. If you insist on keeping the SATA interface, go into the BIOS and disable the SATA RAID ROM, and leave only the SATA Controller enabled. (Under Integrated Peripherals, I think) Under boot order, make sure that SATA or SCSI (Some versions of the bios see the SATA as SCSI) enabled as one of the boot devices. Make sure that the Serillel adapter is working, somehow. That might take another system or drive, though.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

I'm trying to run it in SATA because I only have one round IDE cable. And my CDRW is running of a IDE ribbon.

I'm pretty sure that the Serillel2 adapter is working because the SIlicon bios does detect the hard drive quickly but just won't boot off of it.

I've read in the Abit forums that it could be SP2. The error it's giving me is somewhere along the lines "Disk boot failure. Press <ctl><alt><delete> to restart" I guess SP2 overwrites some files in your MBR which cause the failure of the boot drive under SATA.

When I get home from work i'll turn off the RAID rom off but i'm pretty sure I already tried that.

Thanks for the help.

 

[helpmeout]

I've got an Abit IS7 board and a Seagate Barracuda 80GB SATA drive with XP, sp2 installed, and it boots fine, but Device Manager is showing it as being on secondary IDE, also Device Nanager is only showing the Intel controller, no SCSI. I'm about ready to give up and run it like it is. BTW, I went to the Abit forum last week and the moderator suggested I forget about SATA. Also, I've been told the drivers don't have to be put in at F6 for SATA, FWIW, people are saying install those drivers only if you're going to run RAID. Anyway, I don't think sp2 has anything to do with it. Most of the posts I've found were written before sp2 was released.