There is no SATA boot option in the BIOS (That I know of). It's HD, CD
ROM and Floppy. I was surprised at this, as the only drive listed shows
as IDE.
I assume the SATA driver is installed, as the SATA drive shows in
Control Panel.
I think you're on the right track to solve this problem, but I'm not
sure where to look next.


Peter Shkabara wrote:

>Two questions here:
>
>1. Is your CMOS set to boot from SATA?
>
>2. Was the SATA driver properly included when you installed XP?
>
>I had a similar problem years ago when my SCSI drive would not boot. In that
>instance, I had to perform a low-level format on the SCSI drive to make it
>bootable. In your case, this is clearly not needed, but something in your
>configuration is preventing the hard disk from being recognized as a boot
>device.
>
>
>

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