In my computer i only have 1 hard disk, 1 DVD-RW, and no floppy drives. The hard disk is hooked into the motherboard by a SATA cable and not and IDE. When i tried to install XP Pro it at first didn't detect my hard disk. I went into BIOS and changed the drive type to IDE from SATA in order for it to show up in installation screen of XP Pro. XP runs fine like it is setup, but i want the drive type to say SATA in the BIOS instead of IDE. Is there anyway to do this?
2007-10-07 14:26:52 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
You need to install SATA drivers which should have been put in during the F6 part of the OS installation. The drivers should be on the motherboard CD. Without the drivers in system runs slow and only runs with drive in IDE mode and when put to SATA gives a BSOD followed by a reboot over and over.
2007-10-07 14:40:19 · answer #1 · answered by s j 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-18 03:47:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go into your bios, and tell it to boot from the sata drive if you don't have a IDE drive in then set the bios to ide not installed if you do have an IDE drive set it not to boot from it
2007-10-07 14:34:03 · answer #3 · answered by Carling 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋