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Ghosting to a Serial ATA drive and booting from it. Windows XP.

Asked by eMicros in Miscellaneous Hardware

Tags: drive, p4pe, sata, ghost, boot

Hi

I am upgrading my PC.  I have an ASUS P4PE motherboard which supports SATA.  I have purchased a Western Digital SATA drive (10000 rpm) to give my system a little bit of a boost.  I am running Windows XP Professional, no service packs as yet.

I want to use Norton Ghost 9 to copy my existing IDE drive to the new SATA drive.  If I boot into Windows XP, in device manager you can see a "SCSI disk".  The computer management console does not recognise the drive, and it is not accessible.  I have made it accessible by pressimng CTRL+F during bootup and setting up a stripe array.  When next booted, it showed up in the computer management console.  I selected to create a primary partition on it of the full disk size (70gb).  I set it as my Z drive and used ghost to create a copy of my c drive to this z drive.

I have since removed the IDE drive, and only have the SATA drive connected. In the BIOS, i changed the boot screen to disable all boot devices other than "other boot device -> scsi drive/onboard ata boot device" (i can find no other option that seems related to booting from sata).

If i boot with the raid array still defined, it simply prompts me to "press a key to reboot", and gets nowhere.  If i delete the array, when i boot it says "no array defined, press ESC to boot".  The next screen says "disk boot failure. insert system disk and press enter."

My question is two fold :

1. Do you think my SATA drive contains a valid bootable partition from description?  Having viewed the contents within windows, it certainly looks ok.

2. How do i boot from this SATA drive?

It seems odd that SATA is offered on this board, but there is no obviosu way to boot from it.  Perhaps it's just offered for RAID?  which i dont want ...

Please help!

Thanks
eMicros
 
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