SATA drive no longer boots

The PC was running fine for about two weeks with a single 160GB SATA drive.
One morning, with no hardware changes, the PC refused to boot. A blue screen of death flashed very quickly past as the PC rebooted. Windows suggested safe mode, and when I booted into safe mode the PC stopped loading drivers immediately after mup.sys. I've had this problem before with mup.sys on other PCs (I believe the real problem is the ACPI driver loaded immediately after mup.sys). In any case the solution is usually to remove any hardware or, in the worst case, re-install XP.
Running windows XP setup from CD it will no longer re-install onto the SATA hard drive. Even the recovery console will not work, claiming there is a problem with the drive. I know that the drive is not dead, because it gets as far as trying to install the ACPI driver.
Install a ATA HDD, installing XP on to it. Ran SP1 and all the updates. The ATA HDD worked OK until I plugged in the SATA HDD, which caused the new version of XP to hang at the mup.sys driver again. Disabled the SATA controller, and then everything works again. Ran all the updates for the motherboard and BIOS but that did not help. Switched SATA cables but did not help. Tried the SATA RAID controller but that did not make any difference. Variously tried disabling everything I could in the BIOS setup but that made no difference.
Now, I know that my no-name RAM might be a bit dodgy, and the PSU a little wimpy, but the PC works fine as long as the SATA HDD is either disabled or not plugged in. It actually ran perfectly for two weeks, and I was surprised how cool the CPU runs.
I looks like the next step is to try another SATA HDD, then PSU, then motherboard, but is there anything else which might help my situation before I go out and buy those items?

Well, it turns out it was the SATA HDD, and it seems to be repaired.
The method was to boot Windows XP from another HDD into safe mode and repair the drive. Windows would not boot from the SATA HDD at all, nor run in safe mode. When booted from the other HDD Windows would not access the SATA HDD normally, but would for some reason in safe mode. There must be a difference between the SATA drivers used in safe mode vs regular mode.
CheckDisk found many cross linked files and fixed them (took about an hour) and now the SATA HDD looks like it is working.
How did the file system get damaged? Good question, since I have never seen NTFS get messed up like this. In any case I'm probably going to replace the HDD in case it was the controller.

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Hello all,
I got the MSI Neo4 Platinum & A64 3000+ RevE and it was running fine. Then, last week, my board stopped recognizing my Samsung 160GB SATA HD. The drive is OK, I hooked it up to a friend's comp and it booted up normally. But now, It does not recognize the SATA drive in BIOS. I also have an old IDE drive (40GB Quantum Fireball...seriously) hooked up and the MB recognizes that drive. So, is this an RMA case or am I missing something? I've tried new SATA cables and all 4 SATA ports and different power leads. I don't have an extra SATA HD lying around that I could test the board with, so is there another way to make sure the SATA ports are operational? I was thinking about trying to find a SATA to USB connector and try the ports with my keychain flash drive. Think that would work just to test the ports?
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OK more frustration,
So, my friend lent me a 160GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drive to test. Neither his drive nor my drive show up in SATA ports 1-4. When I attach either drive in ports 5-8 (the Silicon Image RAID ports), I get a message as the BIOS is closing - when you get the screen saying to press F4 to enter RAID setup - that says "No valide device" Must be Italian? But the name of whichever drive I had in those ports is listed...so at least the motherboard can see the drive in those ports, just can't use it. So maybe the SATA ports 1-4 are fried? But why are the drives Invalide in the SATA ports when they're definitely functional?
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The drive doesn't show up in the "Boot Order" either.
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KM4M-V + SATA Drive, Hangs at Boot, Tried IDE Drive and During Setup, Powers Off

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Quote from: Fredrik Åsenius on 24-November-05, 05:57:01
DMI pool data? When changing mobo but keeping hard disk one should do a repair install of Windows and install the mobo drivers for the new mobo.
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Why might extracted Snow Leopard MacBookPro drive no longer boot under IMAC Lion?

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Thanks Pete, but it doesn't solve my problem.
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Problem adding SATA drive

Hi all
First time poster, long time lurker.
Hoping someone here can shed a bit of light on an unusual problem I am having.
Before I outline the problem I will say that my system is running beautifully, I've not got any problems with it in its current configuration, in fact it is the most stable set up I've owned so far. I am a happy MSI owner.
If I can get this issue sorted I'll be an extremely happy MSI owner. Now to the actual problem...
I have a pair of 36GB SCSI160 drives that I use for my system and apps drives and a 120GB ATA drive that I use for storage.
I've purchased a 120GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drive to add to my system as I've just about run out of space on the 120GB ATA drive, my storage drive.
I installed the new drive, set it up as a single Raid 0 volume using the SATA boot utility and checked it all under DOS, tested all OK.
The problem happens once I've booted into windows and enter my username and password.
I get a BSOD, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL STOP 0x000000D1 Error which then does a memory dump, do a reboot and same thing.
Remove the SATA drive and system boots and works flawlessly, I'm typing this on it right now!
I can have the SATA drive connected to the system and NOT have a volume on it and the system works fine, naturally WINXP doesn't see the drive but it doesn't interfer with the operations at all. As soon as I put a volume on the drive... bam, BSOD next time I try to login after I boot up WinXP.
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Originally posted by Wonkanoby
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threadid=49947&sid=&hilight=scsi
things like this are all over the board though yours does not sound totally the same
Thanks for the link.
Very informative. Appears that there isn't an option for me at this time other than NOT using one or the other... I can have SCSI card and no onboard SATA OR I can have onboard SATA and no SCSI card.
Seems to me a BIOS revision is needed as it appears that this is not an uncommon scenario.
Thank you for your time Wonkanoby.

Urgent - No 64bit Promise SATA driver (not RAID)

I'd already installed XP64 on an old PATA drive without problems, so today I decided to use the new VIA SATA drive to dual-boot it off my SATA drive, along with my main XP32 installation. Unfortunately, although it found the VIA driver at F6 and got to the GUI install it locked solid at Devices. Worse than that it's totally screwed all the boot files so I now can't get to anything on either the SATA or PATA drives, and blue screen on any attempt to boot either drive. That's 4 OS installs gone.
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If I don't find it I guess I'm looking at 4 days spent formatting and reinstalling.

Hi Jocko
OK, I'll try explain (and remember!)
First I installed XP32 on the lone SATA drive. No problem as it was the only drive.
Then I added an old PATA drive, which BIOS and Windows Setup always sees as Disk 0 and the SATA as Disk 1.
I then installed XP32 onto the PATA drive. No problem, I think it was because Windows saw it as Disk 0 as it put the MBR in the right place.
I then put Server64 and XP64 on the PATA drive to test them (leaving by day-to-day install safe on the SATA drive. Again, no problems, it updated the MBR correctly to let me multiboot between the 3 OSes on the PATA drive.
I then tried to add an install of XP64 to the SATA drive, but because I left the PATA drive connected, Windows setup updated the MBR of the PATA drive instead. On subsequent reboot it failed because it was pointing to the wrong drive (I think). So I had half an install on the SATA drive, and a boot.ini on the PATA which pointed to a non-existent half installation. Even with BIOS listing the SATA drive as the boot device, each time the PC restarted it tried to carry on the installation and of course failed.
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Adding SATA drives

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So, are you now unable to boot to your original XP? Were you trying to install XP on the SATA drive or just add it?
If you can boot XP, and can't remember if you installed Intel INF's, you should do this as suggested by Kingfisher.
If not, click on the FAQ link in my sig and read #5(HDD's) for the proper Bios settings to enable all the SATA/IDE ports on this motherboard.
Then reboot to the Bios again and go to Advanced Features>>Boot Device Selection and make sure the drive with WinXP is in the list. It might be trying to boot off the old OS from the laptop drive you added. This would explain why it won't boot.
If "PATA Only" in the Bios won't work try "SATA Only"(even though your OS is on a PATA drive).
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I recently installed a WD 200GB SATA drive as my boot drive. Partition 80GB as C: (85% free space) and balance space as D:
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Processor: Intel 3.2c Ghz (Northwood core)
Hard Drive: Western Digital SATA 10kRPM Raptor
Memory: 1 GB (2 x 512MB) Kingston 3200 (400Mhz)
DVD Player: Plextor 8X DVD RW
Video Card: HIS Excalibure 9800Pro 128 MB
OS: WinXP
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My question is the following:
Would the SATA be available all of the time, or only if a SATA enabled harddrive was recognized?
When the system is first powered on by plugging the power cord into the wall, the hard drive makes a small amount of noise, as if it's spinning a bit. When the computer starts up, there is no noise at all, although the hard drive does get warm (which makes me think there is power to the unit).
I tried the 2nd power supply (old IDE) for the hard drive, but that provided that same results as the SATA power supply.
There were some inconsistencies with my mega 865 prior to this. First, the HIFI would randomly lock up, and the only way to get it back was to unplug the computer from the wall. 2nd, it had lost communication on the serial port (why, I don't know). 3rd, and final, it doesn't seem to recognize my hard drive (or my hard drive is ruined).
Can someone help me out here, I'm not sure whether to return my HardDrive, my MSI Mega 865, or both.

The system worked for 4 days or so. One day, I started it up, and it couldn't boot because it couldn't detect the SATA drive. When this happened I decided to flash it to the the latest BIOS, but even this did not help.
The unit had problems before, it would lock up on initial power up, the HIFI/CD/DVD would not respond (when the computer was not on of course). I would have to plug and unplug the unit 3 or 4 times before it would power on and not lock up.
I contacted MSI support, and explained my problems. They told me to return the unit to the reseller. I'm not sure if the problem was the unit, the hard drive, or both, so I went ahead and returned the HD and the MSI unit. It'll be another 2 weeks or so now before I get my computer up and running. :(

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Hey guys
I just got my very first SATA drive. it's a Hitachi 160GB 7k250!
anyway, I wanted to set this new drive (partion 1 to be exact) as my PRIMARY or what I like to call SYSTEM drive.. this is where i store only my windows core files and program files..
My previous setup is that I have 2 PATA drives (Primary master and Secondary Master) and 2 DVD drives (Primary Slave and Secondary Slave)..
Now with the introduction of this new SATA drive, well, i didnt know what to do..
I got as far as setting my BIOS to: (forgive me if the following isnt exact terms as in the bios)
ATA = PATA Channel only
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I was able to boot my computer up with the SATA HD partitions set at the next available drive letters.
Now here's the problem.. I currently have an Image of my C: (system) created with Acronis TrueImage 8, and i restored that to my SATA drive's FIRST partition...
The first partition is also formatted with the same file system NTFS and is set to primary..
From here, i honestly dont know what to do..
ofcourse I will have to set bios to boot the SATA drive first...
Also, since the System image (windows XP) is that of DRIVE C: I have to somehow set the SATA drive to be HD0 (first channel)... playing around in my bios I have accomplised to have set my SATA drive as IDE channel 1 = Primary.. funny thing is the rest of the drives moved down starting at IDE Channel 3 and 4..
Still i went on to boot up.. but i was unsuccessfull. I get a very quick blue screen (about 50 miliseconds) and then my computer shuts off and reboots..
I played around witht he settings and tried many things.. still get the quick BSOD and then reboot problem
GUys? What am i missing here?
I didnt know this SATA drive was gona get complicated.. i thought i'd be up and running by now.. :( ..
Please lend me some of your knowledge peoplez.. :D
tea

Hi Danny,
Thanks for your reply.
I have followed your instructions to the dot.. now im getting as far as the WindowsXP Boot Screen... after an unusually long loading time, i get that BSOD flash which i really cant make out since the darn thing reboots right away.. :(
I also tried
Native Mode
ATA Configuration - SATA only
(changing this to SATA, thinking you were mistaken since am booting sata up.. but what do i know ei?)
SATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA channel selection - both
same results... a long boot screen loading time.. then a quick BSOD..
I alsto tried booting up in safemode.. the loading stops at agp440.sys and reboots after a long pause at that part.
So now I switched back to your recommended settings, but this time setting my old hard drive to boot (PATA).
To my surprise im back to where i started (despite maintaining your suggested settings) thus i am replying to this post again..
also, i noticed that with your suggested settings, my SATA drive is on IDE channel 1.. and the rest on IDE channel 3 and 4.. but here in windows my old hard drive is still drive C:.. I was expecting my SATA drive to be Drive C this time.. could this be the problem here?
I mean the windows Image I restored is setup to work on drive C (first drive), although I removed all the drive, could it be that my SATA drive is still not on drive C?
Please help. My brain's bleeding
Tea

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If I have a SATA drive plugged into the card, the machine works fine. If I remove the STAT drive and leave the card in, I cannot boot to Windows. If I remove the card, it works fine. The only time there is a problem is when the SATA card is plugged in and there is no drive on the SATA card.
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I have tried looking on Promise's web site for a FAQ or an updated BIOS or for other information about this problem and I found nothing. I have e-mailed them and they did not reply yet.
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Quote from: HenryW on 16-March-07, 02:56:44
Have you tried to disable card in Device Manager when you don't use it? What is the model number of the card you are using?
It is a SATA 300 TX2, which means that it has two SATA ports and one IDE port. I have never used the IDE port, only one SATA.
I have never tried to disable it, but I could try, just to see what it did. It sure would be a lot more work to disable and enable it so that isn't a good long term solution. Among other things, it would mean that I would have to boot up in order to remove the SATA drive. Since it won't boot with the drive removed, it will require more planning.
Will post the results once I have tried. Still no reply from Promise :-(

My system won't boot past POST after I plugged in my new SATA drive. (SATA noob

I have a MSI K8n Neo 2 Platinum mobo with a Athlon64 +3500 and 1gig dual channel DDR 400. I currently have 2 drives set up a IDE primary (MAxtor 6Y120) and a IDE slave (Maxtor 6L080).
I recently purchased a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L300S0 300GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/16MB Buffer.
It is my first SATA drive ever so non the less I am a newb. I want to use it as a non Raid media storage device while my primary IDE remains my boot OS drive.
I plugged the SATA in to the sata one port and powered it. I enabled the SATA in the bios with RAID disabled. When the system boots up it does the memory chech and lists all the IDE devices. Then it says "Detecting IDE drives..." and just hangs there. The new drive spins so it definatly has power but occasionaly it make occasional clicking sounds.
Once it actually booted up and windows detected it. I decided to reboot it just to play it safe but it never would get past post screen again. I can boot up the system normally when I unplug the SATA cable.
Please help I need to know if I am doing something wrong or I should RMA the drive. THANK YOU!

Got the same problem:
pata Maxtor Diamond Max =9 200 (40/160) Boot drive
AMD 64 x2 3800
Bios 1.2 090905 using MSi online auto update utility
2x 512 DDR double sided
X850 pro 128mb
PSU Sweetex 650w
Switched power supply
110/220 V switchable (220 V: 5 Amp/ 110V:10 Amp)
+ 3.3 V 28 Amp
+ 5 V 45 Amp
+ 12 V 25 Amp
-5 V 0.5 Amp
-12 V 0.8 Amp
- 5 Vsb 2 Amp PEAK 2.5
Max. 650 Watt
CE, FC
Boots perfectly with 1 pata, adda sata to sata 1 or 2 or 3 or 4
Boot stalls in bios at Raid setup. Tried enable raid with no drives enable , system booted twice, turned off overnight, then failed to start the next day. Will only restart with a cold reboot. Hot reboot produces a long BEEEEEP & power is on but nothing happens no post nothing.
SATA drive was taked from a working system (ECS 755a - AMD 64 3000 - PATA 200 / SATA 200), configured 40/160 40=OS Winxp 64 / 160 = data. System will not boot if this is the sole drive connected.

Windows boot hangs at logo when 2nd SATA drive attached

Hi,
I have a system with a K9NBPM2-FID mobo.
I have several IDE drives and two SATA drives installed. The two SATA drives are a 150GB WD Raptor and a 320GB Seagate.
I've had this system for awhile, and the Raptor is installed in the computer case, and originally, I had the 320GB Seagate in a trayless SATA enclosure (which is in the case). When I had that configuration, the system would occasionally hang on the Windows logo screen (the one with the scrolling bar), and I'd have to pop the 320GB out, and then it'd reboot ok.
I thought that maybe the trayless enclosure might be getting flaky, so when I doing some work on the system recently, I stuck the 320GB drive into the enclosure and connected it directly to the mobo via a new SATA cable.
Since then, I've noted that "hanging at boot" behavior more often :(... And, now that the drive is in the case, I can no longer just pop the 320GB drive out anymore :(...
The 320GB drive itself seems to be ok, i.e., once the system boots, it seems to work ok.
At this point, I'll probably pull the drive out of the case, and put it back into the trayless enclsure, but I was wondering if anyone might know what the problem might be or suggest how I could get this system to boot reliably with the 320GB drive plugged in?
Thanks in advance,
Jim

Hi,
I don't know if this may be involved, but I was doing some googling, and found this:
http://blog.tfanshteyn.com/2007/09/system-freeze-and-sata-command-queuing.html
The Seagate PDF for the 320GB drive specifies that it does support NCQ:
http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_barracuda_7200_10.pdf
I checked the driver settings for the SATA drives under Windows Device Manager, and I noticed that "enable command queuing" was checked on all of the SATA channels, but I figured I'd try disabling that "enable command queuing" and see what would happen.
I've done several reboots after that, including powering completely off, etc., and the system appears to boot ok, now, even with the Seagate 320GB drive plugged into the trayless enclosure.
I'll keep any eye on this, but I'm hoping that maybe that was the reason for the problem.
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Jim

No SATA drive after booting into Windows (BootCamp 5.0)

One of my DVD burners has failed in one of my 2008 Apple Mac Pro's. I pulled the drive out (it was PATA/IDE) and replaced with a new LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray Burner. I had to pull the fan out (temporarily) and run a new 24" SATA cable (with right-angle connector) from one of the two extra SATA ports (on the motherboard) to the new actual SATA drive, and also install a MOLEX to SATA power connector.
I managed to get the drive installed (and working). I now at least have a Blu-Ray burner in my 2008 Apple Mac Pro (with OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion).
The problem seems to be with when I boot directly into Windows 8. When I boot into Windows 8, the two ports on the motherboard are disabled and the latest BootCamp 5.0 drivers don't seem to support the two SATA ports on the motherboard (they seem to be disabled). So when I boot directly into Windows, my LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray drive disappears.
I really wish Apple would have just "done things right" from the very beginning and took the time to write decent BootCamp 5.0 drivers that supported the two SATA ports on the motherboard, so that users who need to replace their old/dying/aging PATA drives could easily replace them with SATA drives and use the two SATA ports on the motherboard.
Also it would have been nice if Apple would have taken the time to write good BootCamp 5 drivers (for Windows 8) that support booting from the two SATA ports on the 2008 Apple Mac Pro motherboard.
I've heard of many people that have tried installing RAID Controller Cards (from OWC) in their 2008 Apple Mac Pro to upgrade their four hard drive caddys from SATA II (3Gbps) to SATA III (6Gbps) but unfortunately the RAID Controller Cards don't seem to be bootable and the only option is to install a fifth (bootable) hard drive into the Apple Mac Pro and this is normally done by installing a bootable SSD drive into one of the DVD-drive bays. Unfortunately if you use a SATA SSD drive (which most SSD's are SATA) and then use one of the two SATA ports on the motherboard to connect it, then you go back to having the problem of not having a boot drive when you boot directly into Windows 8 (since there are no BootCamp 5 drivers for the 2008 Apple Mac Pro that support the two SATA ports on the 2008 Apple Mac Pro motherboard).
This seems to be a never-ending problem, and we have twelve 2008 Apple Mac Pro's (along with an office full of 2008/2009/2010/2013 Apple Mac Pro's) and we're getting extremely frustrated with Apple's lack of support in BootCamp 5.0 drivers for the 2008 Apple Mac Pro (and the two SATA ports on the mainboard).
Please fix this problem, and please update the BootCamp 5.0/5.1 drivers (for 2008 Apple Mac Pro users) and please support the two SATA ports on the Apple Mac Pro mainboard, and please make those two SATA ports on the motherboard bootable and usable in both Microsoft Windows 8 and in OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion. Please update the BootCamp 5.0 drivers to support the two onboard SATA ports in Windows 8 (so that my Blu-Ray burner is viewable/usable in Windows 8).

Just as a follow-up, yes it does seem to be possible to get both SATA ports on a 2008 Apple Mac Pro working (in Windows 8).
You need to enable AHCI in Windows 8.
First boot into Windows 8 and then go into the windows registry (regedit) and enable AHCI in your registry.
You can do this by going to the following registry key:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\storahci
Set the "Start" Value data to "0" (to enable AHCI in Windows).
After AHCI is enabled in Windows, then reboot your computer and now the SATA drive (connected to the ODD port) should appear in Windows (under devices).
Now the next step is to update your AHCI drivers (in Windows) to the latest Intel drivers, so that your SATA device will actually work (and work properly).
The latest Intel RST drivers can be found here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=2101&DwnldID=2306 0&ProductFamily=Software+Products&ProductLine=Chipset+Software&ProductProduct=In tel%C2%AE+Rapid+Storage+Technology+(Intel%C2%AE+RST)&lang=eng
Download the 64-bit drivers (if you are running 64-bit Windows).
After you install the latest drivers, and perform a reboot, your SATA drive should now work under windows.
You can find a long detailed thread about enabling AHCI (in Windows 7) here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=760482
The thread listed above is a bit old/dated (2009?) but it does give detailed step-by-step instructions for those that want to enable AHCI (and get those two onboard SATA ports working in Windows 8 or Windows 7).
I managed to get everything working in Windows 8, and I was able to enable AHCI in Windows 8, installed the latest AHCI drivers and I'm now able to use my SATA Blu-Ray burner in my 2008 Apple Mac Pro.
Hope this helps!
-> Mark

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