OT: Windoze can't find disk

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Sun Jun 17 22:56:11 UTC 2007


David Timms wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
>> On Sunday June 17 2007 5:38:33 pm Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> ...
>>> A fully functional dual-boot FC6/Windoze XP system had its MB replaced.
>>> On being returned (and the disk reinstalled) it booted FC6 just fine,
>>> but XP could not find the disk. Not that it just would not boot, but
>>> that under no circumstances (CD boot, ASR boot, normal boot) could XP
>>> find the disk. The disk partitions are: 1 - NTSF, 2 - /boot, 3 - /.
>>> Any suggestions as to what might be missing? FWIW, the disk is SATA,
>>> and, yes, the driver disk was provided at the appropriate time.
>>
>> Did you try all the different SATA controllers?
>> Did you carefully go through all the BIOS settings?
> BIOS settings seems the place to look. Some have a SATA emulate IDE 
> mode, that might need to be flipped. Or it could be PlugNPlay os 
> installed. Just try one at a time.
>
> DaveT.
>
    I think your new mother board has 2 IDE plugs and in essance one is 
/devhda and the other is /devhdb and you have the one hard drive plugged 
into /dev/hdb.

Karl




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