Sata Drive won't boot

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Hi all, I've just bought a new sata harddisk its a western digital wd5000aaks 500gb. My mainboard doesn't support sata so I have installed a sata pci controller card (VIA VT6421) raid controller. Everything installed fine and worked ok copied my old drive to my new drive using western digital drive tools and tried to boot up using the sata drive but nothin happened. I set the bois to boot up SCSI which I assumed this was correct. I would be grateful for any help. It was gettin to the bois then a message was displayed saying 'Invalid boot up disk, please insert system disk and press enter'.
 
Sounds like the boot.ini is pointing to the wrong place. You're going to be better off reinstalling XP (I assume that's what you're using) because the copy on the SATA drive won't have the drivers for the SATA card and even if you get the boot.ini right it'll fail to boot fully, probably BSODing with an "unmountable boot volume" error.
 
Thanks

Thanks for your help I will give it a go. I am using XP and it was a copy to copy using the western digital utility which was also supposed to be making it a bootable drive. Am not sure what BSODing means though. :)
 
Tried but failed

Hi I tried to do a fresh install on the drive had to put the sata controller card drivers on floppy and press F6 it all seem to work copied files to harddrive for windows but the next time it rebooted it just did the same thing. Am really stuck as to why I think I might have to get a mainboard with sata built into it. Cheers :(
 
Am not sure

Hi am not sure to be honest I got it of a friend so am not sure do you get cards that are not bootable...
 
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