A7V8X: Booting Off SATA Drive

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Hi,

I am running an ASUS A7V8X motherboard with the v14 BIOS and a built in Promise SATA comtroller.

I have just bought a 120Gb Seagate Barracuda SATA drive with the aim of moving there my boot
partition, which currently resides on an old PATA drive.

I installed the drive, went through the array-creation process, used Partition Magic to make a *primary*
partition taking up the whole SATA drive and copy my whole system partition there.

I cannot get the system to boot off the SATA drive, however. Both my old system partition and the SATA
partition are active according to Partition Magic, I have selected the SCSI/RAID boot device are the first in
the boot list (and have actually disabled all the other boot devices).

The computer keeps booting off the old PATA drive and moounts the SATA volume as drive E: it is
perfectly accessible and functional.

Does anyone have any idea?

Thanks,

Iggy

 

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I've played around some more, and here is the solution I have discovered:

When you format the SATA drive, you realise the the computer is actually booting off the SATA drive,
but then the bootblock there redirects it to boot off the old PATA drive. So it seems that partition Magic
is the cultprit for not adjusting the bootblock of the drive, or similar.

I have now used Acronis True Image to clone the drive and it seems to work fine. I suspect reinstalling
the MBR would also take care of this, but I couldn't get Windows XP rescue to do it, since it would not
recognise my SATA drive as having windows installed on it. Don't know if there is a utility that would let
you fix such a thing.

Iggy

Ignacy Sawicki <spam@barrier.com> wrote in
news:Xns952160C486AFAsawickiipocztaonetpl@127.0.0.1:

> Hi,
>
> I am running an ASUS A7V8X motherboard with the v14 BIOS and a built
> in Promise SATA comtroller.
>

> I have just bought a 120Gb Seagate Barracuda SATA drive with the aim
> of moving there my boot partition, which currently resides on an old
> PATA drive.
>
> I installed the drive, went through the array-creation process, used
> Partition Magic to make a *primary* partition taking up the whole SATA
> drive and copy my whole system partition there.
>
> I cannot get the system to boot off the SATA drive, however. Both my
> old system partition and the SATA partition are active according to
> Partition Magic, I have selected the SCSI/RAID boot device are the
> first in the boot list (and have actually disabled all the other boot
> devices).
>
> The computer keeps booting off the old PATA drive and moounts the SATA
> volume as drive E: it is perfectly accessible and functional.
>
> Does anyone have any idea?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Iggy

 

[Tim]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

Windows 98 SE:
fdisk /mbr
(not well documented).
You need to be careful though. If there is anything dicky about your
partition layout then you can lose things.
Sounds like you may have needed to set the partition as Active to boot from
it.
- Tim

"Ignacy Sawicki" <spam@barrier.com> wrote in message
news:Xns95228D0321CB6sawickiipocztaonetpl@127.0.0.1...
> I've played around some more, and here is the solution I have discovered:
>
> When you format the SATA drive, you realise the the computer is actually
> booting off the SATA drive,
> but then the bootblock there redirects it to boot off the old PATA drive.
> So it seems that partition Magic
> is the cultprit for not adjusting the bootblock of the drive, or similar.
>
> I have now used Acronis True Image to clone the drive and it seems to work
> fine. I suspect reinstalling
> the MBR would also take care of this, but I couldn't get Windows XP rescue
> to do it, since it would not
> recognise my SATA drive as having windows installed on it. Don't know if
> there is a utility that would let
> you fix such a thing.
>
> Iggy
>
> Ignacy Sawicki <spam@barrier.com> wrote in
> news:Xns952160C486AFAsawickiipocztaonetpl@127.0.0.1:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running an ASUS A7V8X motherboard with the v14 BIOS and a built
>> in Promise SATA comtroller.
>>
>
>> I have just bought a 120Gb Seagate Barracuda SATA drive with the aim
>> of moving there my boot partition, which currently resides on an old
>> PATA drive.
>>
>> I installed the drive, went through the array-creation process, used
>> Partition Magic to make a *primary* partition taking up the whole SATA
>> drive and copy my whole system partition there.
>>
>> I cannot get the system to boot off the SATA drive, however. Both my
>> old system partition and the SATA partition are active according to
>> Partition Magic, I have selected the SCSI/RAID boot device are the
>> first in the boot list (and have actually disabled all the other boot
>> devices).
>>
>> The computer keeps booting off the old PATA drive and moounts the SATA
>> volume as drive E: it is perfectly accessible and functional.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Iggy
>

 

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I don't know, I'm just shooting in the air....

When you've made the drive image to the SATA drive, power down and
disconnect the PATA
Boot from the WinXP CD, have the SATA drivers ready on a floppy, and
indicate so when the Win setup so ask early in. Now go to the install,
select install on same partition and directory as the one already there.
This _SHOULD_ make a repair installation, with correct drivers, just like
when you change mobo on an existing XP install.....



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"Ignacy Sawicki" <spam@barrier.com> kirjoitti viestissä
news:Xns95228D0321CB6sawickiipocztaonetpl@127.0.0.1...
> I've played around some more, and here is the solution I have discovered:
>
> When you format the SATA drive, you realise the the computer is actually
booting off the SATA drive,
> but then the bootblock there redirects it to boot off the old PATA drive.
So it seems that partition Magic
> is the cultprit for not adjusting the bootblock of the drive, or similar.
>
> I have now used Acronis True Image to clone the drive and it seems to work
fine. I suspect reinstalling
> the MBR would also take care of this, but I couldn't get Windows XP rescue
to do it, since it would not
> recognise my SATA drive as having windows installed on it. Don't know if
there is a utility that would let
> you fix such a thing.
>
> Iggy
>
> Ignacy Sawicki <spam@barrier.com> wrote in
> news:Xns952160C486AFAsawickiipocztaonetpl@127.0.0.1:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running an ASUS A7V8X motherboard with the v14 BIOS and a built
> > in Promise SATA comtroller.
> >
>
> > I have just bought a 120Gb Seagate Barracuda SATA drive with the aim
> > of moving there my boot partition, which currently resides on an old
> > PATA drive.
> >
> > I installed the drive, went through the array-creation process, used
> > Partition Magic to make a *primary* partition taking up the whole SATA
> > drive and copy my whole system partition there.
> >
> > I cannot get the system to boot off the SATA drive, however. Both my
> > old system partition and the SATA partition are active according to
> > Partition Magic, I have selected the SCSI/RAID boot device are the
> > first in the boot list (and have actually disabled all the other boot
> > devices).
> >
> > The computer keeps booting off the old PATA drive and moounts the SATA
> > volume as drive E: it is perfectly accessible and functional.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Iggy
>

 

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"Thomas Wendell" <tumppiw_NOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:40f164a6$1_1@news.dnainternet.net:

I tried this, but it didn't help: even though I could make a FRESH
install on the SATA drive (and the XP installed complained that there is
another OS there), the installation was not detected for repair
purposes.

Works now though.

Iggy

> I don't know, I'm just shooting in the air....
>
> When you've made the drive image to the SATA drive, power down and
> disconnect the PATA
> Boot from the WinXP CD, have the SATA drivers ready on a floppy, and
> indicate so when the Win setup so ask early in. Now go to the install,
> select install on same partition and directory as the one already
> there. This _SHOULD_ make a repair installation, with correct drivers,
> just like when you change mobo on an existing XP install.....
>
>
>