OT: Windoze can't find disk
David G. Miller
dave at davenjudy.org
Sun Jun 17 23:28:10 UTC 2007
Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net> wrote:
> On 06/17/07 15:06:10, Claude Jones wrote:
>> > On Sunday June 17 2007 5:38:33 pm Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>>
>>> > > Sorry.
>>> > >
>>> > > I ask this because the system in question is dual-boot FC6, and
>>>
>> > hence
>>
>>> > > there might be someone who's experienced the same problem.
>>> > >
>>> > > Otherwise, please accept my apologies.
>>> > >
>>> > > 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.
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks.
>>>
>> >
>> > Did you try all the different SATA controllers?
>> > Did you carefully go through all the BIOS settings?
>>
>
> Only on SATA controller -- Promise 378 chip on the MB. I should also
> mention that although the Promise chip supports RAID, that feature is
> not in use. There is only one SATA drive.
>
> I did indeed go through the BIOS settings, which is a good point as
> along with the new MB there was a new version on the Phoenix Server
> BIOS. And there was an enable-SATA setting. With that disabled, GRUB is
> done discovered, as you would expect.
I had something like that come up when I wiped Vista off my wife's
laptop and regressed it back to XP. When I first booted the system with
the XP install disk, the XP installer couldn't find the hard disk. I
poked around on Google and the key seems to be a BIOS setting. Some
systems Vista have the disk set up to emulate RAID to improve
performance, on her system it was some sort of SATA emulation. I turned
it off and then XP found the disk. Could be the new mother board
defaults to what works best for Vista.
Cheers,
Dave
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