SATA Drives - Opposite Configuration under Windows XP

I have 2 HDDs - 160GB and 80GB.
I plug 160GB into SATA 1 and 80GB into SATA 2 on motherboard (MSI 865PE Neo2-PLS).
In BIOS, 160GB is "Primary IDE" and 80GB is "Secondary IDE".
I installed Windows XP SP2 in 160GB. 80GB remains plugged in SATA 2.
In Windows under "Disk Management" (in Control Panel), my 80GB was configured as Disk 0 (marked "Acitve") and 160GB was Disk 1 (even though 160GB contains the XP System files).
(Q1) How do I re-configure this to 160GB as Disk 0 and 80GB as Disk 1 under Windows?
(Q2) Are my BIOS settings wrong?
Thanks!

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Originally posted by NovJoe
Re-install windows with only the 160GB in to force it to be the main system drive.
I did re-install Windows XP this afternoon with only 160GB plugged in.
After that, I re-booted with 80GB plugged in.
Strange, the same problem remains - 80GB still configured under Disk 0 and 160GB under Disk 1.
Is something wrong with my CMOS settings? I was thinking of resetting my BIOS to standard default settings. Would this harm my Windows XP booting, functioning, etc in any way after Windows installation?
Thanks NovJoe!!

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No SATA drives are recognized in Windows but are detected in BIOS.

*sigh*
Irritating problem.
First off, here are my computer specs. (Just built it less than a week ago)
CPU: AMD 64 3500+
CPU Cooling: Stock CPU Fan
Mainboard: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI
Mem: Crucial/Mushkin 2GB (4x512)
HDD: (1) 40GB IDE,(1) 160GB IDE (2) 300GB SATA
Video: NVidia GeForce 5200
Sound: Internal Sound Blaster Live! 24 Bit
Misc: (1) DVD+/-RW 16x Drive, (1) 52x CDRW/DVD Combo
Case/PSU: Thermaltake Tsunami Dreams Window Case w/ Thermaltake PurePower 480 Watt PSU
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2
Here's the issue.
I have no idea what's going on.
OK, I have a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum/SLI board that has 6 onboard SATA ports. 2 of these ports are the Sil chipset and the other ports are the NVidia chipset.
I have two 300GB SATA hard drives (Maxtor) hooked up to the Sil channel. (Sata ports 1 and 2) and during boot the system detects them fine. No problems, instantly, as if there was no issue.
I've used these two hard drives in my previous machine so there is a lot of data on it that I do NOT want to lose.
Problem is, neither one of these drives show up in Windows at all!
The driver is installed, according to the Device Manager for the Sil chipset. There are no drives listed under Drive Management other than my IDE drives, and nothing listed under Device Manager either.
If I hook up my hard drives to ANY two other ports, Windows BSOD on boot. I'm thinking because the drivers for the controller aren't installed. But there's only one problem. Device Manager tells me NOTHING about this and I don't have an executable file to install those drivers so I don't know how to install them.
I've been doing research for the last few days, so can someone PLEASE help me?
Oh, and here are two other threads (in a different forum) that I've tried.
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?p=3374419#post3374419
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=379406
Please help?

Quote from: Supershanks on 21-February-05, 04:45:46
1)Have you set
OnBoard Sil3132 Mode (Bios Onboard Devices)
This setting allows you to select either SATA and RAID mode for the onboard
Sil3132 RAID chip. Setting options: [SATA], [RAID].
as well as
OnBoard Sil3132 RAID
2)When you enabled Nvidia sata did you recheck the Hard Disk Boot Priority to ensure that your 40gb system disk was at the top.
Easiest waty Enter Bios Enable SATa, reboot Enter bios & check boot order this also lets you know that bios has detected the sata drives ok, as well as checking the boot order.
As far as the BIOS is concerned, I have the chipset set to "SATA."
And as far as the NVidia SATA for some reason it has a hard time detecting my SATA drives while the Sil chipset has no issues at all detecting the drive. I have it so the IDE HDD is the 3rd boot device while the FDD is first and the CDROM is second, but if I recall correctly the PC attempts to boot from the IDE drive before any SATA drives while on the NVidia SATA ASSUMING that the drives are detected in the first place.

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).
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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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Any fresh ideas would be much appreciated.

Hi ehildum,
Thank you for the time and effort you put into your post. I can see you have done plenty of troubleshooting on your own, but I do have an idea.
If the USB cable is plugged in this could be causing issue. Assuming it is connected, let's unplug and take a look at the Device manager. The hpzpnp.ice_suffix indicates a plug and play 'pnp'.
Follow these steps and let me know what happens.
Click on Start
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If you see the printer here, right click and select uninstall
Look in the list and click on the arrow next to Printers
If you see the printer here, right click and select uninstall
Delete all files in the %temp% folder
Restart the computer
Open the installer from your download (AIO_CDB_Net_Full_Win_WW_130_141.exe)
Do Not plug the USB cable in until the software says so.
Please let me know the outcome of these efforts. If your USB cable was not connected please complete the above steps anyway to see if there is something stuck in the Device manager that could be causing the conflict.
I look forward to hearing from you.
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Dear Lenovo Community,
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Hi Michael,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
I’m sorry to hear that Optical drive of your Lenovo ThinkPad X301 is not recognized in Windows 7.
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Dear Expert,
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I have a P6N SLI-FI, running XP Pro 32bit. Two sata drives are configured as a striped array and I boot from an IDE drive. It is stable but not as fast as I'd like.
I'd like to install XP-Pro 64 bit on another sata drive. The CMOS setup utility sees the new drive, but it is not listed as a drive I can boot from.
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Try :\\nVidia\System\C55+MCP51\IDE one
Maesus: From the downloaded files (having specified WinXP 64 bit) I can see :\\nVidia\System\C55+MCP51\IDE\Win64. It is too big to fit on a floppy, containing subdirectories raidtool, sata_ide, and sataraid. I'm trying with the sata_ide and sataraid directories now. I will report on any success.
WinXP wants txtsetup.oem: it is within sataraid. I'll try putting the contents of that directory in the root of the floppy.
Did that, now WinXP reports that the driver .(..x64...) is corrupt. I'll try a fresh copy as soon as I can download from the internet.
It looks like the problem was bad floppy disks. I finally found one that was formated and could hold the files. WinXP64 is installing now. I wonder if Microsoft will ever realize that floppies are unreliable media that are ready to be tossed in the trash heap.
I have to say, life is much more convenient with a KVM switch between computers running WinXP and Ubuntu. This is a little frustrating, but it is much better being able to switch between the recalcitrant install and a working computer with a couple of keystrokes.
Quote from: MarkJohnson on 07-December-07, 15:20:54
I remember having a similar issue when SATA RAID chipsets first came out that you had to treat the single drive as a RAID and even load in RAID drivers. Maybe since the chipset is already in RAID mode it wants to be setup as a single drive RAID 0.
I also had this issue with my Intel chipset recently as it wouldn't work as a single drive RAID and I had to turn RAID on and off in the BIOS whenever I wanted to dual boot off my third hard drive. But I'm sure the nvidia supports the single drive RAID, at least the AMD chipset did.
also, one last thing is to make sure the drive is enable in the BIOS. It may not have enabled the drive properly.
Good Luck
-=Mark=-
Mark: I think that's the exact problem I have. Once you convert any sata drives to raid, they all have to convert to be seen.

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