Adding SATA driver - won't boot!

Jon12345

Jon12345

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I have a Asus PK5-E motherboard with an IDE hard drive connected to it and that works fine. Now, I have now connected a SATA drive but it won't boot! It stops early on saying "American Megatrends" which I presume is some logo for the SATA hard drive or something.

Why is that? My IDE drive is set as a master and I have no pins on the SATA drive which is supposed to be for slave setting.

Is it difficult to have one drive on IDE and the other on SATA?

Thanks,

Jon
 
You don't set the SATA drive as a slave (there is no such concept in the SATA domain), the master and slave settings are only to determine how two IDE drives on the same cable interact.

You should still be able to get into the system BIOS (the American Megatrends bit) so go in there and check what the boot priority is for a start.
 
American megatrends (AMI ) is the bios of your board,are you using WinXP?
depending on how old your copy of XP is you may have to install 3rd party drivers for the system to recognise your SATA drive , I have to use a floppy when I reinstall windows, you get the prompt at the beginning of install
 
The boot priority is for my IDE drive, then my external usb hard drive and then the SATA drive. I haven't formatted the SATA drive by the way. I am using Win XP.

Any suggestions on what to do now?
 
Has your XP version got SP2 included or did you have to add it on after original install?
If its the latter then your XP definately won't recognise your drive, you need the SATA drivers on a floppy when prompted during install, get the drivers off the net or they maybe on your mobo
 
I had to add SP2 after installing XP. Why does that make a difference?

The thing is, I don't get prompted for anything when I boot my PC. It just hangs at the American megatrends logo.
 
izzy eckerslike said:
Has your XP version got SP2 included or did you have to add it on after original install?
If its the latter then your XP definately won't recognise your drive, you need the SATA drivers on a floppy when prompted during install, get the drivers off the net or they maybe on your mobo
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The OP isn't trying to install XP on the SATA drive hence drivers aren't required. In fact that board won't need drivers at all if the SATA ports are configured in IDE mode.

Jon12345 said:
I have it connected to SATA port 3. Not sure what you mean by how are they configured in the BIOS??
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If you go into the main page of the BIOS there should be a SATA configuration option, go in there are make sure the SATA ports are configured as IDE.

Have you tried any of the other SATA ports?


EDIT: Try the above first but I'm starting to wonder if it's maybe a Windows issue rather than a hardware one. The boot.ini file might be trying to use the wrong disk.
 
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