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Originally Posted by cyrnel
Deltona, SATA is often not mentioned in the BIOS boot order. Enable everything and disconnect everything else to be certain. But at this point I doubt that's the problem.
What drive model is it? You may be running into an SATA 3Gbps issue with your motherboard. Some are 3Gbps "compatible" once Windows drivers are loaded (or the BIOS is updated) but have issues fully recognizing and booting a 3Gbps drive. Try installing the drive's rate limit jumper. Performance won't suffer; 1.5Gbps is more than your drive can supply.
You may have to ID the motherboard to see if there's an updated BIOS that would help. Of course, that's if you want to make it work.  |
I SWEAR I need to come to this thread at HOME instead of work where I can list the MB model. It is a 3.0 capable MB, I have all the settings enabled for SATA, and the Bios has the latest update as of Jan 1st, 2007.
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Originally Posted by Dilbert1234567
it should just be the hard drive, not SATA device, plug in the SATA drive and nothing else, see if that boots, if it doesn't where does it fail, blinking curser, invalid bootdisk...
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The drive functions perfectly normal, the problem as stated is that the SYSTEM doesn't seem to allow me the option to use this drive as a boot device. Even if the drive itself was a dead drive, the system would atleast make an ATTEPT at booting if the BIOS had the drive as master boot.
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Originally Posted by Shauk
unless your motherboard has on-board SATA support you're not likely to have SATA as a bootable option.
What kind of MB do you have? and are you using an expansion card for a SATA controller to mount your SATA drive? or are you plugging it straight into the motherboard? (if it's the latter, then i'm confusied, since I cant imagine a SATA plug being on a board without SATA bios options.)
and, of course, you do have it set up to be a master drive with the jumpers right? (i'd just as soon assume you aren't a complete noob though, but it's safe to ask)
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This is a fully supported SATA MB. It is onboard, with no need for SATA card, all options for SATA support are enabled in the BIOS. It is an MSI MB.
And ther is no option for 'master' in an SATA drive system.(you are correct, not a noob, been building systems since 1985)