Re: SK8V - Cannot boot from SATA drive - HEEEELP!!!

Are you using Intel RAID? If so make sure the you have " Serial ATA Bootrom"
enabled in the Bios

"G Couture" <gcouture66@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:nygFe.2831$q23.409243@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I just bought a nice WD Raptor SATA drive for my board. The BIOS detects
>it, Windows detects it (when I boot from my older IDE drive), but I just
>can't figure how to boot from the SATA drive. I have fiddled with the
>board's BIOS settings endlessly, but there seems to be no way I can set the
>main boot device to be the SATA drive. Anyone has an idea? How the f...k
>can I install Windows on a SATA drive if I can't set the drive as the boot
>device?!?
>
> G Couture
>


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