After installing a 2nd SATA HD I am now unable to boot to windows. My specs before I did anything were:

OS - Win XP Pro SP2
Motherboard - Gigabyte K8 Triton (GA K8NSC-939)
Processor AMD Athalon 64 4000+
DVD Drive 1 - Sony
DVD Drive 2 ASUS
3.0 Gig RAM
HD 1 - Maxtor D740X-6L (60 Gig P-ATA) -- Data drive only
HD 2 - Western Dig WDC WD800JB (80 Gig P-ATA) Data Drive Only
HD 3 - Maxtor GY160MO (160 Gig S-ATA) Boot Drive

All 3 drives were becoming full so I copied all my data from the Maxtor 60 Gig to a network location and then removed the Maxtor 60 Gig from the device manager and shut down.

I then physically removed the Maxtor 60 Gig from the PC and replaced it with a new Western Dig OEM Drive which I connected to a SATA power connector and the 2nd sata connector on the Motherboard.

So Now My set up is the same as above with the new drives like this

HD 1 Western Dig WDC WD800JB (80 Gig P-ATA) - Showing as Ch0 in Bios
HD 2 Maxtor GY160MO (160 Gig S-ATA) - Showing as Ch2 in BIOS
HD 3 - WDC WD7500AAKS (750 Gig SATA) - Showing as Ch 3 in BIOS

Upon rebooting the BIOS runs VERY slow but does recognize each drive. I have the boot order as CD rom, then HD, then floppy. Within the HD priority I have the old boot HD as 1st choice

Essentially, my PC now hangs in BIOS immediately after cycling through each CD/DVD drive and will not boot to Windows. I then get en error message "disk boot failure". I have posted bios s/s here so you can see them.

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What am I doing missing here? I have the latest bios for the Motherboard...is this something to do with a RAID set up (which I know almost nothing about)? Should I not have plugged the new SATA drive into the 2nd connector on the MOBO? Is this a "master/slave" issue? I have not placed any jumpers on the SATA drives (I have heard that is not required with SATA) I simply want the new 750 gig drive to act independently and give me more storage than its 60 gig predecessor.

Thanks

Gord

Hello and welcome to PC Help Forum.

This looks like you have setup wrongly.

Main drive if SATA goes in port 0 on maninboard next drive would be port 1.

Did you choose cable select on your hard drives?

Here is a few links for you.

Did you set any IDE hard drives to cable select?


Seagate Technology - How To Install and Troubleshoot Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Drives

Seagate Technology - Serial ATA Jumpers and Cabling

Seagate Technology - Serial ATA (SATA) Troubleshooter

Also what about RAID setup?

Also double check your settings in BIOS/Setup,what did you choose auto detect hard drives or another?

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Jelly Bean, thank-you so much for your response. I have done this a quite a few times but this time I left the jumper on slave and had you not mentioned cable select I never would have thought of it. I moved the jumper on the PATA drive to CS and I can now boot to windows. I am however unable to see the P-ATA drive in windows or through the BIOS. I am using the end (black connector) of the Ultra DMA (80 Conductor) cable. I show no drives at all on Channel 0 (master or slave), my 2 DVD roms look fine at channel 1, and my SATA drives both shoe up in channel 2 and 3. I have not enabled IDE RAID in my BIOS..should I?

Also, is there a utility in XP Pro to allow me to format the new drive?

Thank-you again

Gord Sutherland

I would boot into recovery and try fixboot command if that does not work then bootcfg /rebuild

Hello do you mean format as a slave?

I just go to disk management to format or open my computer and right click on the drive and click format a warning will popup just continue.Drive is ready for storage.

I fitted SATA HDD in port 0 then my DVD/DCD rom was fitted in port 2 leaving port 1 for another SATA HDD.

Port 2 has a SATA DVD/CD-R fitted I chose cable select on IDE and SATA.

Try setting BIOS to auto detect drives.

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http://www.petri.co.il/index.htm

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Thanks, I used disk management and formatted my new SATA drive fine. Strangely enough I sill see no HD in Channel 0. So I have 2 of 3 HD's (both SATA) working fine and a WD 80 Gig drive (which I need some files from) plugged into my IDE port on my Motherboard (drive jumpered to CS) which is not recognized even when I try auto detect in the bios...its strange. The drive looks connected to power and the DMA cable correctly...just not sure what to try next.

Gord

Hello,Does it show up on post screen when you boot up the computer?

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Nope...can't see it at all. I could before changing the jumper settiong to CS.

Problem solved....played with the BIOS again and I am now good to go. Thanks all for the excellent comments...I would not have solved this on my own.

Gord

PS. I wish I could remember how to mark this thread resolved!!!!

Marking threads is down to staff, otherwise us moderators would be out of a job lol

Marked as Resolved

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