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   Perry smith Private E-2

   I am trying to recover an old sony vios running Win Xp media 05'.
   The recovery disk run but will not reboot w/o error.
   When viewing the BIOS, all SATA ports are empty. So I moved the HD to SATA port 1 (org in port 0). Now the HD is recognized but I don't think it's being assigned as C:.
   Can't get a real grasp on RAID, nor can I find how to assign boot ports.
   Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    

   Perry smith, Jul 7, 2012

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   plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

   RAID needs at least two "close to identical" hard drives.
   If you don't have two internal hard drives in the computer, turn RAID off in the BIOS.
   
   Assign SATA 1 as the boot device in BIOS. Perhaps SATA 0 is broken if the computer doesn't seem to recognize something plugged in to that port.

    

   plodr, Jul 7, 2012

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