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Sata gone missing

Apr 14, 2006 10:49AM PDT

Hoping some clever folk can give me some advice on a problem that has developed recently.
Powered down to install an audigy4 sound card and when i rebooted the seagate sata drive was not recognised. No bios settings were changed and the only change i made before shutting down was removing the onboard Realtec AC97. I have read up on different forums to try and solve but have had little luck.

Each time i boot up get the following 'Reboot and select proper boot device'
I have checked in bios setup that onboard sata controller is enabled and checked all leads etc. and that 1st boot device is Hard Drive.

I have made a floppy driver diskette from the mobo cd and rebooted with xp disc in and hit F6. Installed diskette and ran through the system setup Obviously i do not want to install xp and so went to repair option this then recognised the sata partitioned hard drive! Problem is when i reboot its back to square one and the hard drive is not recognised.
I have downloaded seagate diskwizard and made two diskettes to install on bootup. This does not recognise the drive either.

Not sure if this is correct from IDE configuration in bios setup
Onboard IDE controller - both
Onboard sata controller - enabled
Primary IDE master - not detected
Primary IDE slave - not detected
Secondary IDE master - not detected
Secondary IDE slave - not detected

Other than reinstalling xp and loosing my existing c drive on the sata I am at a loss

Appreciate any help with this


OS Xp Home Edition SP2
Asrock K8Upgrade-1689 bios P1.20
AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+
80G Seagate SATA HDD 7200/8M

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(NT) (NT) Tried removing the device that started the problem ?
Apr 14, 2006 12:52PM PDT
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(NT) (NT) Yes took the sound card out to original setup
Apr 14, 2006 7:10PM PDT
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Sata done fishing
Apr 14, 2006 8:53PM PDT

I obviously was not looking hard enough!!

Went into BIOS
Bios-boot-hard disk drives. This only detailed IDE
I disabled IDE (no sata shown?) and rebooted. Then if i hit Ctrl+A I go to all sorts of settings for the sata drive-I did not have a clue on this and did not want to mess with settins as i do not understand raid etc and so I rebooted.

Went into BIOS
Bios-boot-hard disk drives IDE detailed Sata serial No. Enabled this and changed boot up to hard disk 1st device.
Hey presto Windows starts up!

Now more than happy that I have all files etc but can you explain to a novice what I have done?
Thanks for your reply