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Detecting SATA drive

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by bencaston

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Ok... my bios will not detect that i have a sata drive on the computer. but when i boot to the windows xp cd rom, I am able to install no problem. But of course after the install it doesnt see the drive again and tells me there is no boot media. what the heck is going on?? usually widnows wont recognize it not the computer. Can someone please point me in the right direction here? im getting annoyed.

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by dan.cox

Depending on the model of computer and the bios it could have a bios setting that needs to be changed for SATA drives.
I ran into similar issues with a Dell Optiplex 755 desktop.
In the bios the SATA operation setting was set to AHCI mode. I had to change it to ATA mode.
Check if there is a similar setting in your bios for the mode.

by bencaston

I think it is set to native ide.. or something. I will try and change it to ata instead. I think it had some legacy setting. Im formatting now so that might take a minute but thanks for the tip i will try it.

by bencaston

Ok so i dont really have a choice on my bios to change it. All i have under the ide menu it native ide, legacy ide, Achi, and something else. all i know is that it only give me the option to turn the sata channel on and off thats it. Any other ideas?

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