SATA drive

I installed windows on IDE 250 GB hard drive. I also have SATA 80 GB HD. Windows does not see the 80GB drive, but windows on 80GB HD can see the 250 GB drive.

Any suggestions.

Windows XP pro..

 

OK, I'm confused.

Are you saying you've installed windows on both the 250 and the 80 and when you boot windows with the 80 it sees the 250 but when you boot windows with the 250 it doesn't see the 80?

If that is the case are both OS's windows XP Pro?

If I understoodf you correctly I don't really know what the problem could be. Besides from maybe a drive letter not being assigned. You could check under the manage->disk managment menu (right click my computer) to see if it shows there, and if it does assign a drive letter.

 

Yes that is what I am saying. I ahve the same version of windows on both HDs.

Windows on IDE HD does NOT see the SATA HD.
Windows on SATA HD does see IDE HD.

 

I'm going to say that when you boot to the windows on the IDE...it doesn't have the driver installed that is required to see SATA drives!!

Remember...you had to hit F6 to install the raid driver when you installed the windows on the sata drive!!

When you installed the windows on the ide drive...you didn't have to hit F6 to install the raid driver...so therefore...not having the raid driver installed...that windows doesn't know the SATA drive exist!!

Does that make sense!!??

Roger

 

On most modern motherboards that support sata and sata raid, you can turn off the sata raid portion within the bios, which then you would not need to install any driver, at all.

 

That is only half true. You can infact turn SATA raid off, but it's useless to do so since windows XP is so old. SATA didn't exsist when it came out so whenever you use a SATA drive to install windows onto you always need to provide SATA drivers because windwos XP doesn't even have basic SATA drivers built in. Of course you can make custom windows CD's which include the drivers, but most people don't take the time to do it, or simply don't know how.

 

Interesting. I've yet to have to do any of that. Though, the motherboards I've worked with are Gigabyte and Asus. Neither of which required Sata drivers (when RAID is not involved). But, I have heard of some motherboards that do require this driver.

 

I cant do that since the motherboard it self does not see the SATA drive. ASUS wrote the MB to read the drive as SCSI drive. This is what asus tech support guy told me when I wanted to dual boot.



I figured it was a driver thing, however I cant find a driver to download. Im gonna keep searching if you guys come across somethin let me know.

 

What motherboard are you using?

 

ASUS A7N8X-E deluxe.