Re: Feedback

I would try downloading a fresh set of drivers from the one of the sites
Charlie gave you in his earlier post and at least start the reinstall of x64
to see if it sees your sata drives. I have 4 sata drives, but my boot
drive(per disk management) is (2)(1) while my boot.ini being used by boot
loader is the one on (0)(1) . The boot drive per disk management is (0)(1)
while the boot.ini being used is on (2)(0). How are your drives listed
when you map them in Recovery Console? Mine are different in the two places
and the one that controls the boot on mine is the Recovery Console order,
which matches the drive order on the motherboard. Putting the boot.ini on
your 0 drive 1 partition per recovery console may help you boot properly,
regardless of what shows as the boot drive in Disk Management.


"Christian Hougardy (MS MVP XP)" <> wrote in
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> John Barnes wrote:
>> Can we restate the problem?
>> You have 2 ide physical drives, 1. has x32 C Drive
>> 2. Has x64 D Drive
>> You have 2 SATA physical drives Neither has a system on it. What
>> drive letters? You say your boot.ini is on one of them.
>> All 4 drives show properly in the POST
>> All 4 drives show properly in System Recovery MAP
>>
>> Your system boots to x32 every time - Do you go thru the boot from
>> selection process. Which of your 2 boot.ini is presented at boot,
>> the one on the SATA drive or the one on the x32 drive (if that is
>> where the second boot.ini you refer to is).
>>
>> Where exactly then, do you not show the second sata drive? And do
>> you show both ide and one sata.
>> My computer ? or Disk Management?\
>> Could you show disk arrangement as shown in disk management for us. (ie
>> Disk 0, Drive C Partition 1 of 1 Status Healthy (boot) SATA !!
>> Disk 1, Drive X Partition 1 0f 1 status healthy(active) IDE etc.
>>
>> I am assuming that it is here that you do not show the second SATA
>> drive?
>
>
> Ok, lets start it again.
>
> I have two sata C and D. C is the boot disk, D is data.
> I have two IDE: E and F. E is for X64 and F is data (later for LH).
>
> In the Bios, I can see the 4 disks. No problems.
> I reinstalled XP32 on C, using the drivers provided by the mobo
> manufacturer, on the CD. After reboot, I can see, from XP, all the 4 HD's
> and I can use all of them. I had to perform a fresh install because I
> wasn't allow to repair my former XP installation.
>
> When I try to install X64, on the IDE hard disk, using the via drivers,
> during the setup, I can only see the 2 IDE.
> After the DOS part of the setting, the pc reboot on the SATA disk and not
> on the IDE. The new boot.ini is written on the IDE and not on the sata
> (the one that X64 doesn't see during setup). So, I have to change the boot
> order in the bios to be able to finish the setup of X64.
> Once the install finished, I can't see the two sata's, only the two IDE
> (they still available in the bios but not from X64).
> Of course, because X64 doesn't see the sata (C), it is unable to create a
> dualboot and if I want to boot on C, XP32, I have to change the boot order
> again.
> If I do not use the promise drivers in the bios, the two sata's are not
> visible at all, from X64 or XP32. So, one or the other way, I have to use
> the promise driver.
>
> To be short, the two versions of XP are installed, 32 on the Sata and 64
> on the IDE but no dualboot and I have to play in the bios to be able to
> use one or the other one.
>
> Now, on the Mobo, I have 4 sata connectors, I'm using the 2 red (sata
> raid) as Charlie recommended. I wonder if I use the two others, with the
> via drivers, it will be better. I'll try later today.
>
> Thanks for helping
>
> Christian Hougardy (MS XP MVP)
> Johannesburg - South Africa
> http://msmvps.com/xpditif
>

John Barnes

John Barnes wrote:
> I would try downloading a fresh set of drivers from the one of the
> sites Charlie gave you in his earlier post and at least start the
> reinstall of x64 to see if it sees your sata drives. I have 4 sata
> drives, but my boot drive(per disk management) is (2)(1) while my
> boot.ini being used by boot loader is the one on (0)(1) . The boot
> drive per disk management is (0)(1) while the boot.ini being used is
> on (2)(0). How are your drives listed when you map them in Recovery
> Console? Mine are different in the two places and the one that
> controls the boot on mine is the Recovery Console order, which
> matches the drive order on the motherboard. Putting the boot.ini on
> your 0 drive 1 partition per recovery console may help you boot
> properly, regardless of what shows as the boot drive in Disk
> Management.

Hi John,

it's working right now, it was a sata connector problem.
Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards

--
Christian Hougardy (MS XP MVP)
Johannesburg - South Africa
http://msmvps.com/xpditif