OT: Windoze can't find disk

[David Timms]

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.