sata

[daveyr]

my brothers dell precision sata hdd fialed causing blue screen

so i purchased a new hdd for him unfortunately its a sata 2 drive the salesman said it will work fine

unfortunately i cannot get it to act as a bootable device ? i took ide from cd rom and plugged in ide drive with operating system

i found sata drive in disk manager and formatted it so as to be recodnised in windows

i then installed win 7 onto it it works fine and boots up if ide hdd is plugged in

when i try running it on its own i get error no operating system found ??? it will not boot on its own

but works fine if i am running a ide hdd with it

is there a a reason for this or a way to run it on its own ???

can anyone advise

i never worked with sata drives before so not sure if its a installation error

drive recodnised in bios ect

i also tried installing vista and xp with same results

Edited June 26, 2011 by daveyr

[jaclaz]

What you are reporting is perfectly normal, and has NOTHING to do with SATA or SATA 2.

Basically it seems like you installed the OS when a IDE hard disk was connected AND "first disk".

Thus the OS install routine wrote to that disk the boot files.

All you have to do is:

1. copy BOOTMGR from the IDE disk to the SATA 2 disk
   
2. copy the \boot\ folder from IDE disk to the SATA 2 disk
   
3. verify that partition on SATA 2 disk is:
   
   • primary
     
   • active
     

[*]verify that the bootsector on the primary, active partition on SATA 2 disk is actually the Windsows 7 one (by running bootsect.exe /NT60)

See this thread:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24353&st=0

jaclaz

[daveyr]

Thankyou jaclaz i will give it a try sounds complicated but will do my best many thanks i also tried the raid drivers but still wouldnt boot so let it run the whole night for full format so gonna start over

thanks again

[daveyr]

issue has been resolved :-) all i did was after installing win 7 on sata drive whilst running ide it caused dual boot so relogged into sata went to device manager and disabled the ide this made the sata drive primary

then i turned off ide for hd in bios to stop pc looking for it

this allowed me to remove the ide from pc and run sata drive then spent most of the day downloading ms updates (hates fresh installs lol)

thanks again jaclaz