rong Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 XP home SP2Asus M2N-SLI delux, (made for SATA)My old drive IDE has died and bought a new SATA, it is recognised in the bios, but Acronis tells me there is no drive and so does XP install. I put it in my old PC XP sp2 and loaded Partition Magic in which it showed up and set it to NTFS (it showed in my computer after this) put it back in the other one and it was still not recognised. Any ideas please, I don't have a floppy drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 I seem to remember something about there being a preferential sequence for using SATA sockets on the MB. But then again I may be talking out of the back of my neck, as usual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted December 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 It,s in SATA 1, there are six on the board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Rong I have the same board as you and I have just looked at the BIOS settings as I use SATA drives.IN the BIOS under ADVANCED--SerialATA configuration, make sure Raid Enabled is Disabled and under Silicon 2 controller make sure SATA is selected and not Raid.Hope this helps as that is how mine is set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted December 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 Where is the Silicon 2 controller, I think I have opened most of the things in the bias and can't find it. I am beginning to think I may have a duff drive as I don't change things in the bias and the board is made for SATA so it should find it with out any trouble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 This is what mine looks like, I have highlighted the SATA 2 controller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted December 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 I know where it is now and will set the other one up (sharing keyboard, mouse and monitor) later and try again. As I said though I haven't changed anything apart from the boot order so don't understand why it shouldn't find it. Thank you for your help so far though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 I hope it solves your problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted December 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 I didn't have that one I had something else, that's why I couldn't find it. I took the drive back to be tested and it was faulty, so got a new one, Acronis still tells me there is no drive, so I had to install XP, even with it formatted and XP installed Acronis couldn't find a drive, I even made a boot CD on the new set-up and it still said it wasn't there, so Acronis was a complete waste of money. Thanks for your help though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 Which Acronis product are you using ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted December 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 Which Acronis product are you using ?8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 If you mean Acronis True Image v8.0 - that should be OK.If you are using Acronis Partition Expert 2003 v8.0 - that does not work with SATA drives :(. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted December 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 True Image 8, and as far as I can see it's useless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted December 23, 2007 Report Share Posted December 23, 2007 I've used TI 9.0 for SATA drives OK - never tried 8.0 with a SATA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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