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Help booting Windows XP w/Western Digital Raptor SATA Drive

by wowiezowie Jun 17, 2005 9:47AM PDT

Hi,

I recently bought a Western Digital 74 Raptor Serial ATA drive. My motherboard had no Serial ATA connections on the board so I bought the Adaptec SATA Connect PCI adapter as well. I installed the Adaptec SATA PCI board on my old hard drive fine, and then used the Western Digital Data Lifeguard tool to copy my old IDE hard drive to the new SATA drive and make it boot.

I took out the old hard drive and it seemed to work fine, but the Windows on the SATA drive can't get past the initial Windows XP loading screen. I'm able to boot via Safe Mode, but not Safe Mode w/Network Support. Any help would be appreciated to have my new SATA drive boot Windows normally. Thanks

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Have you set the Bios....

by Michael Geist Jun 17, 2005 10:47AM PDT

boot option to look to a SCSI or Other device first?

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Re: Have you set the Bios....

by wowiezowie Jun 17, 2005 11:06AM PDT

Yes I've enabled the BIOS to boot SCSI... it's just weird that I'm able to boot in safe mode but not in any other mode. I'm guessing the configurations from the old hard drive are making it buggy? There's no sign of the old IDE drive though in the device settings.

Any more ideas? Maybe manually editing boot.ini?

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(NT) (NT) Clean install always works better.

by Michael Geist Jun 17, 2005 12:29PM PDT

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