Added SATA HD now old SATA HD won't boot.

[ClickCardo]

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 ASUS SCSI drivers to
show as 2 individual drives. One showed as F/I drives with OS on
the I: drive. DVD/CD-RW showed as G/H drives. Everything was OK.

I pulled the 3 IDE HDDs and their controller out. Added another
Maxtor 250GB SATA HDD to the Via VT8237 controller. Went into
the BIOS and set the original Promise Maxtor boot drive back into
the top of the boot sequence then let the PC boot up. I got the
error message: REBOOT + SELECT PROPER BOOT DEVICE.

I went back into the BIOS and select the other original Promise
Maxtor just in case, but still got the same error message. The
POST shows all 3 drives OK. Can anybody help me?

Thanks
CC

 

[rvnguy]

ClickCardo,

As no one else has posted to this I will. As you have the Promise PDC20378 controller you must also have the A8v Deluxe mobo?? I was also confused by your reference to using ASUS SCSI drivers as you are using SATA drives??
I could not validate your BIOS ref in your post--The most recent is a beta

A8V Deluxe Beta BIOS 1014.007

The most recent non-beta is:

A8V Deluxe BIOS1013

Checking, there are also many updated 64-bit drivers for several items, SATA included. Just FYI as this is most probably not your problem.

I would suggest that you remove all HD's excepting the one that you will boot from (this one on the promise controller)and only one optical drive (for CD reading) and excecute a clean install on this drive of XP. With this being a success??? I would then add additional drives as storage one at a time. This should correct your boot problem and if there remains a problem you will at least know at what stage of this build up that it occurs. This will also make your boot drive "C".

rvnguy

 

[ClickCardo]

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 re-installation of all my apps.

any ideas appreciated and thanks for taking the time to answer my post.

CC

 

[rvnguy]

ClickCardo,
I know what you mean about re-installing all apps. Your orig post did not make clear what was your boot drive???? You had two SATA's in raid "0", added another, re-mapped the Raid to separate SATA volumes, removed three IDE drives......

some where along that path you must have had to re-install everything right????

Still, Try removing all but the single boot drive to see if it will boot from this...if not use XP console to try to repair the MBR and other drive items. Hoping for XP to be sucessful at repairing what it apparently see's as wrong. Good Luck

rvnguy