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ok having just typed that out, been thinking

I take my primary hdd out of my machine, replacing it with a sata.

This means no master hdd, I have a hdd runnign on slave but nothing running on master. Does this matter?

Could the problem be that i need to change my ide hdd from salve back to master in the jumpers and connect it using the master connection and not the slave? i think in my haste i presumed since i am installing onto sata a master hdd is not required since it has no jumpers. Could this be the problem?

If not keep the ideas comming.

-Curver

Ok, in an ingenious method by myself, i disconnect the drive it said didnt have a god partision (the only ide drive leaving only sata drives.

It got past that page and is formating it itself to NTFS. Currently at 15%.

Provided my plan works, i will install windows then reattach the old hdd as it was as slave and hope the computer dosnt notice and add it as annother drive but dosnt care coz windows is allready instaled. When i set the boot device order to sata first.

Will keep you informed of progress if it dosnt work, think of possible solutions. Ahh the pains of raid and its ment to be eaiser to install hmm who figures.

Ok, windows installed no problems. All is well.

I attach the IDE drive as slave again. And windows dosnt boot, i get an error.

"Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter"

I disconnect the IDE drive and windows boots fine.. Hmm, That drive cant be ****** its shown no signs of failure...

hey curver,

i could betrying to boot from your ide drive instead of the sata drive

genie3251

which was my origional thought, but i went into bios settings and boot priority can only be set to "hard drive" not sata hard drive, just had drive in general and on the list of bootale devices it dosnt list sata or any pci cards.

Hey there curver,

Congrats on gettings the drive to partition and install windows on it, definately took some ingenious thinking on your part.

Obviously you are using a raid card because your system does not have any onboard sata connectors, this means that your BIOS will not give you the option of booting from Sata (as you have discovered)

With this in mind when you boot up the machine, after it checks the BIOS do you get a screen saying that your raid card is being initialised and if so do you get any kind of setup screen you can access.
Normally these cards have a bios of their own and you can sometimes set boot options within there.

Would you be able to post the make/model number of your PCI card so I can do some research on it.

Another thing to try - is to set boot priority to nothing.

So instead of booting from "hard disk" you change it to "disabled"
on all 4 options...this will force it to look after the BIOS is initialised.