OT: Windoze can't find disk

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 06/17/07 16:28:10, David G. Miller wrote:
> Geoffrey Leach <geoff at hughes.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 06/17/07 15:06:10, Claude Jones wrote:
> >> > On Sunday June 17 2007 5:38:33 pm Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> >>     
> >>> > > Sorry.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > I ask this because the system in question is dual-boot FC6,
> and
> >>>       
> >> > hence
> >>     
> >>> > > there might be someone who's experienced the same problem.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Otherwise, please accept my apologies.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > A fully functional dual-boot FC6/Windoze XP system had its MB
> >>>       
> >> > replaced.
> >>     
> >>> > > On being returned (and the disk reinstalled) it booted FC6
> just
> >>>       
> >> > fine,
> >>     
> >>> > > but XP could not find the disk. Not that it just would not
> boot, 
> >>>       
> >> > but
> >>     
> >>> > > that under no circumstances (CD boot, ASR boot, normal boot)
> could
> >>>       
> >> > XP
> >>     
> >>> > > find the disk. The disk partitions are: 1 - NTSF, 2 - /boot, 
> 3
> - /.
> >>> > > Any suggestions as to what might be missing? FWIW, the disk 
> is
> 
> >>>       
> >> > SATA,
> >>     
> >>> > > and, yes, the driver disk was provided at the appropriate
> time.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Thanks.
> >>>       
> >> > 
> >> > Did you try all the different SATA controllers?
> >> > Did you carefully go through all the BIOS settings?
> >>     
> >
> > Only on SATA controller -- Promise 378 chip on the MB. I should 
> also
> 
> > mention that although the Promise chip supports RAID, that feature
> is 
> > not in use. There is only one SATA drive.
> >
> > I did indeed go through the BIOS settings, which is a good point as 
> > along with the new MB there was a new version on the Phoenix Server 
> > BIOS. And there was an enable-SATA setting. With that disabled, 
> GRUB
> is 
> > done discovered, as you would expect.
> I had something like that come up when I wiped Vista off my wife's 
> laptop and regressed it back to XP.  When I first booted the system
> with 
> the XP install disk, the XP installer couldn't find the hard disk.  I 
> poked around on Google and the key seems to be a BIOS setting.  Some 
> systems Vista have the disk set up to emulate RAID to improve 
> performance, on her system it was some sort of SATA emulation.  I
> turned 
> it off and then XP found the disk.  Could be the new mother board 
> defaults to what works best for Vista.

Problem resolved. Turns out that the new MB had a new version of the 
Promise SATA controller, which required a new driver. Now I need to 
figure out how to get the driver onto the disk. Sigh!

Many thanks to all who replied.