I have a xp pro sata raid 1 (mirror). I bought a sata storage drive. It just about blows the computer up. It won't boot?

I have a xp pro sata raid 1 (mirror). I bought a sata storage drive. It just about blows the computer up.It won't boot.

It won't boot when the new drive is plugged in to the group of 4 ports where the RAID drives are plugged into. When I could get it to boot, it shows up in the RAID config but not the regular bios. Should I have bought an IDE drive?

If I plug it into the Marvel port, it shows up in the Marvel RAID config. Asked by vincekeys 32 months ago Similar questions: xp pro sata raid mirror bought storage drive blows computer boot Computers > Hardware > Computer Components.

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I think you should of bought an IDE drive, the RAID drives are catch 22, I will explain. I think you should of bought an IDE drive, the RAID drives are catch 22, meaning sometimes they work and other times they just won't boot up which is the case here. Sources: It is my opinion..

Re: SH-183L - Vista won't boot Re: SH-183L - Vista won't boot --------------------------------------------------------------------------------More details about your computer would be nice. Is it plugged into on-board SATA ports or a SATA pci card? 11-03-2007 #3 (permalink) pandyboy New on Forum Join Date: Mar 2007Posts: 3 Re: SH-183L - Vista won't boot --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Apologies.It is an on board SATA PCI card.

I have 11-03GB RAM. Pentium 4 2.8GHz. Primary SATA drive (in same card) is 250GB HDD, which works fine and has Vista installed on it.

I did have an IDE DVD-Rom which I used to install Vista (clean) but, once installed, Vista didn't detect that, which is why I upgraded to the Samsung SATA one. Incidentally, when I did have that IDE drive plugged in, Vista took 10 minutes to boot. Since removing it, it takes 30 seconds.

However, now if I plug in the SATA drive, it never boots (at least not in under 40 minutes, which is how long I have left it before giving up). I now have no IDE drives at all. 12-03-2007 #4 (permalink) nealh CloneCD Veteran Join Date: Mar 2002Location: FloridaPosts: 1,889 Re: SH-183L - Vista won't boot --------------------------------------------------------------------------------what mobo are you using?

It maybe the sata pci card does not like sata HDD and ODDdo you have a second sata controlleralso what is the SATA setting in the [email protected] 1.4v bios 2747 Dtek FuzionBadaxe2 bios 2747 MCH 1.575/vFSB 11-03 x 1GB 10th Anniv. Crucial @DDR800 4-4-4-2T 2.0v x1900xt CF MCW60 Rad: PA120.3/ Pump: DDC2 w/ Petra's top; 11-03in masterkleer Seagate 320gb 11-03/200gb 7200.8 SATA X-Fi music/SH-203B /LG H62L/ LH-201ALCorsair HX620w /Acer AL2223W/modded TJ07 13-03-2007 #5 (permalink) pandyboy New on Forum Join Date: Mar 2007Posts: 3 Re: SH-183L - Vista won't boot --------------------------------------------------------------------------------I'm not 100% sure which Motherboard (I'm not at that PC at the moment), but I'm pretty sure it predates SATA as I got it in January 2003. There is nothing I can find in the BIOS which referes to SATA.

The SATA card has its own BIOS but that is just for setting up RAID and nothing more. Interestingly, when it shows the SATA boot screen, it detects the HDD but says "No Drive Found" for the second channel, but go into the SATA BIOS itself and both drives are shown. No I don't have a second ATA controller.

Sources: http://club.cdfreaks.com/f105/sh-183l-vista-wont-boot-212592/ .

I put my sata drive in a box and it works just great for that. I used something like this...newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82... .

I put my sata drive in a box and it works just great for that. I used something like this...newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82....

2 I figured it out sorta round aboutly. First I plugged it into the external sata port. I could see it in bios but not windows.

Then I went to the Seagate site and downloaded a utility that brought up ...drumroll...disk management. Then I could format it. Strange though, if I enabled compression, the format failed and the computer just rebooted itself, saying it had recovered from a major error.

I disabled compression and it's fine. I dunno! .

I figured it out sorta round aboutly. First I plugged it into the external sata port. I could see it in bios but not windows.

Then I went to the Seagate site and downloaded a utility that brought up ...drumroll...disk management. Then I could format it. Strange though, if I enabled compression, the format failed and the computer just rebooted itself, saying it had recovered from a major error.

I disabled compression and it's fine. I dunno!

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