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garebo. thanks for the advice. I had already looked at that and it wasn't the driver. My bios had gotten reset which switched the controller to raid mode. I switched the bios back to ide and everything came back ok. thanks cc

I have an ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard. There is a 250GB Maxtor SATA drive on the VIA controller and 2x250GB Maxtor SATAs on the Promise controller in IDE mode. I set this up a couple months ago when I installed Win XP Pro SP2. All 3 drives had been working fine until today. Now when the PC...

Slved problem. Was able to get VIA SATA RAID drivers on a floppy. Re-installed XP from CD and unpartioned all drives, then partioned/formatted VIA drive as C: and installed there. Everything now works fine. All I have to do now is re-install all my apps and data. Yech!

I originally had only 2 Maxtor SATA HDs on the A8V Deluxe onboard mobo Promise controller. I had them setup as 2 separate drives with the BIOS IDE option. I hit F6 during OS install and used a floppy with the non-RAID Promise drivers. It's a long story, but the OS successfully installed on...

Yes. it's the A8V Deluxe. The AMI-BIOS version in the boot menu is as stated in my previous post. I'm sure I can get things working going the clean install route. The point of my post was hoping (in vain?) for a solution that would eliminate the need for a clean OS install and painfull...

I have a ASUS A8V motherboard with AMI-BIOS 8.00.09 computer. It hadd an IDE PATA add-on cards with three IDE HDDs that showed up as C/D/E drives in XP. It had 2 Maxtor 250GB SATA drives on a Promise PDC20378 controller. They were originally setup in RAID 0, but then I reinstalled XP and used...