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SATA won't boot when it's the only HD installed?

ny_driver

ny_driver

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It boots fine to the SATA when the IDE drive is also installed. Both drives have fully updated and working XP PRO w/sp3. When they are both installed I must choose which OS to boot, however when I remove the IDE I get boot disk failure. I then inserted the system disk and tried going to Recovery Console and run FIXMBR and FIXBOOT, but setup does not detect any HD installed on my system. I'm on the SATA drive system right now, and I had it installed all by itself until yesterdays fiasco when I had to use the IDE to rescue my files and then reformat etc.. etc..

I'd like to take the IDE out and use that OS on another system. Any ideas would be great. I will be here to answer any questions. Thanks for the help.

EDIT:HDtune says it's not bootable. Why would that be when I booted to it and I am on it now?
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what is wrong?

1) there is a bug in the hardware/firmware of the motherboard that is causing the SATA to be incorrectly identified...Not likely and very difficult to fix or troubleshoot.
2) There is in fact no OS on the drive....I would boot to a rescue disk if you have one or a live CD and take a look at the disk. You could also put the drive in a difference system to make sure that the OS is there...I would guess you have done this and that it's there.
3) Boot sector is corrupt...This is possible and IMO hard to figure out and fix. When I usually see this, I just reinstall the OS and everything is fine.
4) The partition is not set as ACTIVE PRIMARY...this is IMO the most likely scenario...Boot to live CD and fdisk the drive. Make sure that the partitions are there, live, active and primary.
5) lastly, if it's booting off a raid controller or a RAID chipset, make sure that the drive is set to bootable.

that's my advice. Hope it helps.
 
You have two operating systems on two drives. Only one of the drives contains the bootloader. There are several ways to correct this, but doing anything without learning about the issue(s) can be problematic.

You should be able to use EasyBCD to adjust your boot settings...I think. I haven't ever dual booted XP and XP!

Try here: http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Windows+XP

Vistaboot forums are helpful to learn about the boot process.
http://www.pronetworks.org/forums/
 
Hi all,As per an earlier Posting by myself, I have an Asus A8V motherboard.These motherboards have onboard SATA controllers RAID/SATAWhen booting with the HDD on the controller I want not RAID in order to run it as a single drive I can see the version of driver being run.It is for Promise SATA378 TX2Plus. A search for and driver/BIOS of this type has proven fruitless. Im wondering if the Promise website has an equivalent driver. Its possible the Promise SATA150 TX2 is one but can anyone confirm this? Without it I cant see the drive in XP SP2
 
Next time you install an OS make sure that only one drive is installed on the MB. I recently installed an W7 on a system with 3 HDDs. When I removed one of extra drive......it wouldn't boot! So I just removed the extra drives and did a repair install. Problem fixed.
 
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garritynet said:
Next time you install an OS make sure that only one drive is installed on the MB.
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That's how I do it. I've run a lot of multi-disk computers with different operating systems on each disk and never had a problem as long as I disconnected all disks except the one where I was installing the new OS.
 
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