Trying to get a pci sata adapter to boot....

[shawn_selig29]

hi guys, i got a freinds dimension 2400 computer....he bought a 200gb sata drive....so i bought him a pci sata card, this one:

http://www.manhattan-products.com/en-US/products/6613-sata-150-raid-controller-pci-card

i got it in...and the cars bios detects the hd....and in the main pcs bios is detect unknown device in secondary master.....

i cant seem to get xp to load the drivers to see the hd during xp instal...can anyone pls help me thxs, shawn

 

[PC eye]

Addon controller cards are mainly to see storage drives and other devices added to the system and are not generally recommended for a boot device. Even with an external usb drive here the list of hard drives used to set the default boot device is never set to the usb drive since it is intended as a storage medium not a primary OS drive.

The limitations there are the same you would see with SCSI setup for faster access to storage devices but not as a boot device that the XP installer will recognise. The drivers for the card are generally installed after Windows is already installed on an internal host drive ide or sata where XP may need a driver disk in order to see a sata drive depending on the onboard chipset.

 

[tyttebøvs]

What happens when you load the driver (after hitting f6)?

 

[shawn_selig29]

What happens when you load the driver (after hitting f6)?

after i press f6, and i insert a floppy i made with the drivers....it keeps just trying to loook for a driver on the floppy.....

 

[shawn_selig29]

well...i got the drivers slipstreamed into xp install cd....and it sees the drive and parttions.....and it can copy the setup files onto it.....but thats as far as i get becuase the computer wont bootup off the drive.....can anyone help me out...its a dell dimension 2400....and i got the hd connected with a sata pci card...thxs

 

[Hugh9191]

sounds like you may need to mark the partition as active

 

[PC eye]

Is there another hard drive on the system there like the original ide model? The bios is seeing that as the default boot device. In the boot order section of the bios highlight "hard drives" and press enter to see if a list of hard drives comes up.

The sata drive if seen there is likely seen under the original drive if still in the case. The sata has to be moved to the top of that list if seen to see it set as the default boot device.