maxblast 3 and win xp

mawibrimawibri
edited May 2004 in Hardware
Hi here is a newbie question so its bound to be stupid!
I recently installed a maxtor SATA raid drive 160GB in my hybrid comp using maxblast 3, I also set this drive to be bootable and watched all the windows xp OS copy to the new drive where it sits nice and comfy! However despite setting my gigabyte dual bios to booy satat first I have no joy in getting the system to boot from the new drive....it is seen in BIOS and windows the drivers for raid and sata are installed it is a basic raid configuration.

I am wondering if I should run the windows XP pro install disc again on the SATA drive in case some files were missed or uncopyable by maxblast

system is a Gigabyte 8PE800 ultra MB, Intel Celeron 2ghz, 512 ddr400, Radeon 7500 AGP 2 x 10 gB IDE drives and the BIOS is Gigabyte dual flash ....


Anyone any ideas before I mess it up completely??? :eek2:

Comments

  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited May 2004
    I don't see how booting with your XP disk and running a repair install should mess anything up. Be sure to have your sata drivers disk handy incase you need to install them during the repair install though. If that doesn't work, then post up your machine specifics; maybe someone will know something special you will need to do with your specific setup.

    If worst comes to worst, you could always do an overlay install of XP on your present installation, then run the install on all your apps so that they are registered in the registry again. I've done that before with Win2K Pro with no problems.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited May 2004
    mawibri wrote:
    Hi here is a newbie question so its bound to be stupid!
    I recently installed a maxtor SATA raid drive 160GB in my hybrid comp using maxblast 3, I also set this drive to be bootable and watched all the windows xp OS copy to the new drive where it sits nice and comfy! However despite setting my gigabyte dual bios to booy satat first I have no joy in getting the system to boot from the new drive....it is seen in BIOS and windows the drivers for raid and sata are installed it is a basic raid configuration.

    I am wondering if I should run the windows XP pro install disc again on the SATA drive in case some files were missed or uncopyable by maxblast

    system is a Gigabyte 8PE800 ultra MB, Intel Celeron 2ghz, 512 ddr400, Radeon 7500 AGP 2 x 10 gB IDE drives and the BIOS is Gigabyte dual flash ....


    Anyone any ideas before I mess it up completely??? :eek2:

    Why did you use that Maxblast software? Yuck. When you say it won't boot. What are you doing exactly? You mean it won't boot after installing XP? Or what exactly. What is the exact error message you get and when do you get it? While trying to install or when rebooting after the install or what? If you have ide drives installed XP is going to put the 5 or 6 boot files on the first ide drive no matter what the bios is set for. Can you try removing the normal ide drives leaving only the new SATA drive. Set the bios to boot from the SATA. Now try reinstalling to the sata and remember to do the F6 thing to install the sata drivers. If it was me I would trash the maxblast crap unless you have an older computer and tahts a huge sata drive that can not be normaly seen correctly. That junk is a last ditch way to install a drive when nothing else works IMO.

    Tex
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