Hi all,
I have a circa 2003 Matsonic MS8308EP mobo. It’s an old board I’m using as a project and I’m trying to make the most of it. I have installed a Sata PCI expansion card which recognises and accesses a 500Gb Sata drive under XP. The OS boots and runs from my existing IDE drive.
I had loaded drivers into the IDE drive copy of windows XP for PCI card and Sata drive.
I would like to know if it is possible to boot from this Sata drive even though my current Bios doesn’t show the Sata drive, it is usable once XP has booted and loaded from existing IDE drive. My mobo Bios boot options are IDE, cdrom, SCSI, network, USB FDD.
I might be trying to put the “cart before the horse” as the Bios can’t point to PCI Sata card until XP drivers are loaded and XP can’t load until PCI Sata drive is recognised and located.
Is it possible to boot from PCI card if mobo Bios doesn’t have option?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Many thanks.
