A8N-SLI Premium - Problem setting up SATA II WDC 1200 JD drive as boot drive

I've been reading this forum for the last week or so looking for the same
problem. Now I've decided to ask.

Up until a week or so ago, I was booting of the IDE channel on a 30 GB
Deskstar and had a WD SATA I 120 JD as my F: drive. Everything works fine,
then i decided it would be nice to boot off of the WD SATA II drive
(300mb/s) and this should add a significant speed boost. This way I could
phase out the slower IBM drive. I have been unsuccessful in booting from
the SATA II drive.

System Specs:

A8N-SLI P mobo
1 GB OCX PC 3200 Gold 2-2-2-5 dual channel DDR kit.
Bios 1011-005 latest version. was running 1007-002.
Win XP Pro.
DVD writer and DVD reader.
AMDDual 64 3800+ - OC'd to 4200

disk drives:
IBM Deskstar 30 GB - IDE
WDC WD 1200JD SATA I - used as a data drive
WDC 1200 JS SATA II - Planned to use as a boot drive. No Raid configuration
needed or desired.

Steps used to try and get this to work. Note that i do not want a raid
config. Just traditional drive setup.

1. hooked up the SATA II drive on SATA 1 port and the SATA I drive on the
SATA2 port and the IBM on the IDE-0 master. The DVD drives are on the IDE 1
channel (no probs)
The machine boots off the IDE (IBM) and I can see all drives and looks
normal. I then ran the WD tools and copied the IBM drive to the new SATA II
drive - no erros and all looked great (yes I did tell it to make it a
bootable partition). I could see the files. Then (with 1007-002 bios at
this time) rebooted and entered the bios and set the SATA II drive as the
first in the list and the DVD drive as the second boot device. I get through
the boot sequence and then the mobo says booting from OS and then just hangs
with the msg "no boot drive found". Change the bois setting back to the IBM
as the first drive and the sysem boots fine.

2. Re did the above again. same result.

3. disconnected the IBM and set the SATA II as first in the boot sequence,
same problem.

4. Updated bios and tried again. no go.

5. tried installing windows from scratch on the new drive by formatting the
drive, and installing the new clean version of WinXP pro. (the IBM drive
was disconnected) Appears to install and when windows re-boots after copying
the files it stops after the bios loads and runs right to the point as above
that it can't find the OS.

Al I really want is to have the SATA II drive as a boot drive and the SATA I
drive as my storage drive.

Any help would be appreciated!

Regards,

B.


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