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by jas03 1 view

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Does anyone know if you can have a system with only once SATA HDD. I just want to use it as an IDE HDD. I'm not going for any kind of RAID. Is it posible?

I'm running an ASUS K8V SE DELUXE ATHLON64 S754 DDR AGP 5PCI SATA RAID 1394 1000LAN SOUND.

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by thechas

The best and simplest way to use a SATA drive as a non-RAID boot drive with this motherboard is to install a PCI SATA controller card.

Theoretically, you are supposed to be able to use a SATA drive as a boot device. However, since both SATA controllers are designed on the assumption they will be used for RAID arrays, you can't set up the system to boot from either SATA controller unless you first set up a RAID array.

We went round and round with this on a system. We finally ended up installing an IDE drive to boot off of, and then use the SATA as a data drive.
Windows however does not keep the driver for the SATA controller and we end up installing the drive every time we boot.

Chas

by jas03

Thanks. I got it to work with just the one drive. I just made a disk with the drivers for the Raid card for windows to see the drive when I was installing it (windows). That worked, No Array created or anything. I failed to mention all I wanted to do is install Windows XP and boot to it. Maybe you where doing something more complicated that that.
Thanks again

by cg it

humm Chas is the hardware man but I've had 1 SATA drive operating on a SATA controller [did have to create an array but that array consisted of only one drive] then booted to the array. I was using a MSI K7N2G-LISR mainboard with the Promise 376 SATA controller.

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