My IDE hard drive doesn't like my SATA one..

Jet

Jet

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Hello all:
Recently I was playing around with my FSB settings, and now it seems my windows installation lost its SATA drivers. Last time I installed windows, I installed the SATA drivers so that I could run both my IDE hard drive and my SATA one, and have the SATA one as the Master drive. However, now it will only boot from the IDE one, like it did when I installed Windows without the drivers. I really don't want to reinstall windows, but is there another way?
 
Have you tried unplugging the IDE drive to see if it definitely wont boot the SATA drive? Maybe the boot order changed...?

To reinstall the SATA drivers, you could press (I think) F6 during the boot of a Windows XP disc. That may resolve it.
 
So you can reinstall them without reinstalling windows?

Right now I'm running off of my SATA drive and the IDE one is unplugged; the IDE has an expired edition of Vista Beta, so that doesn't help me much :D
 
So you can boot it then. That means you don't need to install SATA drivers. It must be something to do with the hard disk boot priority. Check your BIOS settings. You should be able to change the boot order of your HDD's.
 
Your SATA controller probably doesn't like out of spec frequencies. I had an Asus board that did the same thing at about a 7% overclock. Did windows just stop being able to see the SATA drive?
 
The exact same thing happened on my older motherboard which didnt lock the SATA bus frequency. Everytime I had the fsb of the processor past a certain point, the SATA drive would read incorrectly on POST and it wouldnt boot from the drive.
 
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