Can't boot from SATA drive

Using K8N Neo Platinum mainboard with NVIDIA nForce 3 250GB chipset
(MS-7030, v.1.) Have both serial & parallel ATA drives. Have installed Win
XP Home to both drives (separately, of course!), but after WIN XP finishes
its installation, it hangs on the "Windows Is Starting Up" screen when
attempting to use the SATA drive. Using the PATA drive, no problem. Have the
latest driver updates, v1.3 BIOS. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. The
SATA drive is a Western Digital WD740-GD, 74 GB.

Thanks!! Lee

"Lee Shipman" <> wrote in message news:<>...
> Using K8N Neo Platinum mainboard with NVIDIA nForce 3 250GB chipset
> (MS-7030, v.1.) Have both serial & parallel ATA drives. Have installed Win
> XP Home to both drives (separately, of course!), but after WIN XP finishes
> its installation, it hangs on the "Windows Is Starting Up" screen when
> attempting to use the SATA drive. Using the PATA drive, no problem. Have the
> latest driver updates, v1.3 BIOS. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. The
> SATA drive is a Western Digital WD740-GD, 74 GB.
>
> Thanks!! Lee

I've heard about this. When you bought the MSI motherboard it should
have come with a SATA disk, now I've heard during the WIN XP
installation that you press F6 or something (somewhere around when it
asks you to install other devices and stuff) and you install the SATA
program-thing. I dont know if its correct, ive read it somewhere... I
have not finished my pc purchase, so i havent gone through that
experience. (Im also about to use SATA for the first time)
Hope that helps

Gabriel

Thanks, Gabriel. I found the problem; it wasn't related to the motherboard,
but due to a misunderstanding as to how I should use the Acronis True Image
program to migrate to a different hard drive. Thanks to their quick &
detailed response, all is well now.

Pressing F6 to install the RAID drivers would be necessary if I were using a
RAID configuration, but I have only a single SATA drive.

Lee

"Gabriel den Hartog" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> "Lee Shipman" <> wrote in message
> news:<>...
>> Using K8N Neo Platinum mainboard with NVIDIA nForce 3 250GB chipset
>> (MS-7030, v.1.) Have both serial & parallel ATA drives. Have installed
>> Win
>> XP Home to both drives (separately, of course!), but after WIN XP
>> finishes
>> its installation, it hangs on the "Windows Is Starting Up" screen when
>> attempting to use the SATA drive. Using the PATA drive, no problem. Have
>> the
>> latest driver updates, v1.3 BIOS. I'd be grateful for any suggestions.
>> The
>> SATA drive is a Western Digital WD740-GD, 74 GB.
>>
>> Thanks!! Lee
>
> I've heard about this. When you bought the MSI motherboard it should
> have come with a SATA disk, now I've heard during the WIN XP
> installation that you press F6 or something (somewhere around when it
> asks you to install other devices and stuff) and you install the SATA
> program-thing. I dont know if its correct, ive read it somewhere... I
> have not finished my pc purchase, so i havent gone through that
> experience. (Im also about to use SATA for the first time)
> Hope that helps
>
> Gabriel

Pressing F6 to install the RAID drivers would be necessary if I were using
a
RAID configuration, but I have only a single SATA drive.

Not allways the case, depends on controler. If using F6 the drivers have to
be installed from floppy, not cd.
D

"Lee Shipman" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Thanks, Gabriel. I found the problem; it wasn't related to the
motherboard,
> but due to a misunderstanding as to how I should use the Acronis True
Image
> program to migrate to a different hard drive. Thanks to their quick &
> detailed response, all is well now.
>
> Pressing F6 to install the RAID drivers would be necessary if I were using
a
> RAID configuration, but I have only a single SATA drive.
>
> Lee
>
> "Gabriel den Hartog" <> wrote in message
> news: om...
> > "Lee Shipman" <> wrote in message
> > news:<>...
> >> Using K8N Neo Platinum mainboard with NVIDIA nForce 3 250GB chipset
> >> (MS-7030, v.1.) Have both serial & parallel ATA drives. Have installed
> >> Win
> >> XP Home to both drives (separately, of course!), but after WIN XP
> >> finishes
> >> its installation, it hangs on the "Windows Is Starting Up" screen when
> >> attempting to use the SATA drive. Using the PATA drive, no problem.
Have
> >> the
> >> latest driver updates, v1.3 BIOS. I'd be grateful for any suggestions.
> >> The
> >> SATA drive is a Western Digital WD740-GD, 74 GB.
> >>
> >> Thanks!! Lee
> >
> > I've heard about this. When you bought the MSI motherboard it should
> > have come with a SATA disk, now I've heard during the WIN XP
> > installation that you press F6 or something (somewhere around when it
> > asks you to install other devices and stuff) and you install the SATA
> > program-thing. I dont know if its correct, ive read it somewhere... I
> > have not finished my pc purchase, so i havent gone through that
> > experience. (Im also about to use SATA for the first time)
> > Hope that helps
> >
> > Gabriel
>
>