Urgent: sata disk woes!

ringo747

ringo747

ringo747

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Hi guys,

I have just rebuilt my pc into a new case and am having awful problems getting my machine to boot.. I have been told that the Gigabyte mobos cause awful problems when swapping disks etc.. I think i maybe pligged my 3 disks into a different combination of sata sockets and then when i booted up my pc i got NTLDR warnings. I moved some of the cables around and then eventually it booted up ok. I switch my machine off come back tonite and i get the same NTLDR is missing warning. I am ready to throw the machine out the sky light window and am loosing it! cant understand this problem at all.

Anyone any ideas?

I maybe should point out that on my mobo I have two sets of double sata sockets.

My mobo is a gigabyte k8NS-Pro.

Hope i can get this sorted soon as Iv so much coursework on these days!

Cheers in advance
 
Some motherboards require SATA drivers to be installed first.

Why not just plug in one drive (preferably one where you want to install Windows on) and test that. Make sure you go into the BIOS and select which drive to boot from.

Best of luck.
 
here i am back on my 'bust' machine... removed the other two drives and it boots up the best. Windows has already been installed on this disk so sata drivers should already exist.

I just dont know which sockets i should be using for which disks. The bottom two are GigaRAID i think. I dont run any raid setups. Just have had enuf of all this flicking cables about!
 
has using a pci raid controller got any benefits over using mobo raid sockets?
I wont be running disks in raid tho so im guessing it wont make any odds.
 
jonnyc747 said:
Hi guys,

I have just rebuilt my pc into a new case and am having awful problems getting my machine to boot.. I have been told that the Gigabyte mobos cause awful problems when swapping disks etc..
Cheers in advance
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the answer is above, your pc has to follow a path to certain files, "drive name and source, move them about and how is it going to find them. a bit different from exchanging a drive
 
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