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February 18, 2007 at 11:45 AM
jrpfeiffer

SATA PCI Interfaced HDD

by jrpfeiffer . Updated 19 years, 3 months ago

The computer has a bootable EIDE hard drive with XP Home installed. The motherboard doesn’t physically support SATA. The goal is to install a new SATA hard drive using a PCI interface card that can be set up as RAID or non-RAID (non-RAID is the preference)and use it as the new boot drive with a new OS. The XP Pro setup doesn’t recognize the SATA drive even using the F6 option and installing the appropriate drivers for the IF card. It only sees the C: drive. The SATA drive has been partitioned into 2 drives, G: and H:. These drives can be accessed and used through My Computer or any other means. Just can’t install the OS and use it as the boot drive. I have disabled C: and booted from the XP Pro CD using the F6 option and setup can’t find any HD. Any suggestions

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