Problem installing sata harddrive

[nick101181]

I bought a 250 gig sata drive and I wanted to clone my 20 gig with xp over to the 250. when I first plugged it up, norton ghost recognzed the sata drive. I told it to copy one drive to another and it took about twenty minutes. I then unplugged the old 20 gig and attempted to boot from the sata but it never boots to windows. Now while trying norton ghost it doesn't even recognize the sata drive anymore. I read that someone said I need to put the promise sata378 drivers on a floppy and boot the windows xp cd and load them from the floppy. Well I did that but it's still not working. Can someone give me a step by step on how to get this sata with the copied 20 gig drive to boot windows and replace my orginial drive? I do have sata boot rom enabled in my bios. Thanks

I also forgot to mention it does show up in device manager but not in windows itself.

[Cobra]

I don't know if your motherboard is the same as my one, but SATA BOOTROM doesn't do it. Disable that, and enable the Promise RAID controller. Set this to IDE MODE, and you should be sorted.

More details on my experiences here:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=264825

Hope this helps!

Cobra

[redwudz]

You did format it first? With your old boot drive installed, can you access it? If it doesn't you should be able to find it in: Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Storage>Disk Management. If it shows, check it's properties to see if it's set up properly.

If it's set up correctly and has all the needed boot setup, unplug all other drives and try it again. If still not booting, check your BIOS settings again to see if there are any other boot settings. If no, record your BIOS settings and remove your BIOS battery for a few minutes to reset the BIOS. Do your BIOS settings again.

Sometimes BIOS and Windows have a hard time wanting to boot from a new SATA drive. It may take some juggling of settings to get it going. The good news is after that, it will work fine from then on.

EDIT: I think Cobra's post is more useful to your problem. I use the onboard Silcon Image SATA controllers on two of my MB's and it seems to behave differently than the Promise controllers.

[nick101181]

I have an asus motherboard also. I have the K8v se deluxe. I'm gonna disable sata bootrom and enable promise in ide mode to see. thanks

[Cobra]

Let us know!

[nick101181]

Well I disabled sata bootrom and enabled promise ide mode but still nothing. I get to the point where I gotta press f6 to load the promise raid drivers from my floppy and I go thru that, but when I want to install windows it can't detect any harddrives. I have my sata plugged into the primary sata spot on my mobo. When I boot up the bios screen says maxtro 250 gig ultra dma 6
IDE BUS Master is enabled. I can still see the drive in device manager but not in windows at all.

[thevoelk]

Are you sure you're not using a SATA RAID driver and not just a SATA driver? Both of the mainboards in my computers have 2 sets of drivers and they aren't interchangeable.

[Cobra]

Have you plugged the hard drive into the "SATA_RAID_1" port (red)? That's what I had to do.

Try following the guide I wrote one of my previous posts - I was having the same problems as you, on an Asus motherboard with a Promise controller and a SATA hard drive, and I have detailed my solution.

[nick101181]

The only sata ports I see are PRI_SATA and SEC_SATA. I tried last night to just do a clean install of xp on the sata and then manually copy over everything from the 20 gig. That didn't turn out too well. I'm formatting the sata again and gonna try norton ghost again. Some people report better success with ghost 2003, but I'm using norton ghost 9. After I had the fresh install, I unplugged the sata and booted with the old 20 gig and now windows sees the drive, so it's getting formatted now. Hopefully I can finally get this done right. Someone told me to use Casper xp, but I don't wanna pay 30 dollars USD and it not work. The Trial version resizes your drive to the size of the drive you're copying which sucks. I report my progress later today Thanks


In norton ghost I'm checking the following options when backing up the drive to the sata

copy mbr
check destination for file system errors
set drive active for booting OS
ignore bad sectors during copy

these are the same settings I've used the 3 times I've tried this. any ideas?