Yet another SATA question

[kush]

There is a page and a half of SATA problems on this forum, and I read most of them - no luck.

I have a GA-8KNXP / 3.4mhz

WD Raptor 74gb SATA as boot, master
Maxtor 250gb SATA as slave

Raptor went bad (after 1 month).

I pull that, swap the connector for the 250g into the master. BIOS sees it, everything ok.

Boot from XP Pro CD. Hit F6, loaded both drivers.

Load XP Pro onto existing partition - I did not want to reformat the drive as I have a couple of things I want to keep (not a big problem, but).

Set the drive as primary in boot sequence

Go to boot, BIOS sees it, but will not go past the bios screen - one that says Verifying DMI pool data.

Reloaded windows, reloaded drivers, nothing....not booting.

Help??? Am I supposed to reformat the drive? I'd like to avoid, especially if that's not the issue.

Thanks

 

[Ryoga]

Try booting to the Recovery Console and running a FIXMBR and FIXBOOT C:.

If those don't work, I'd try a different SATA cable and controller. It's possible the Raptor didn't go bad at all, but the cable or the motherboard did.

 

[oldman420]

i thinkmaybe the sata bios wont work right with just one drive silicon image chipsets are sort of funny that way.
thats all i can think of

 

[psychnurse]

I have a similar gigabyte mobo to you. The nforce 3 chip set instead.
I had a hell job getting my sata drives working. Went to the silicon website and got their drivers for sata rather than the ones that came with the mobo and that solved my prob.
Just an idea?
Cheers
Malcolm

 

[kush]

Yea, those drivers came straight from the mobo site

the cable/controller should not be the prob because the drive worked fine as a slave (?)

I guess I'll take the boot drive out of my other pc and swap it in, copy the info off the 250g then reformat and start fresh. Its a hassle, but I'm outta ideas

thanks