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Limp Gawd
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I only have an ATA-100 capable drive, but I was going to give sata a try just to see how it works on my nf7-s.
So i plug in the convertor, the power cable for it, and the sata cable to 'sata1" on the board.
I make sure SATA is enabled in the BIOS, and save settings. It gets to the sata BIOS, and says to press ctrl-s or F4, and I tried both keys about 4 different times on each restart, and it just acts like i never pressed the keys, and then says it can find no disks, and then proceeds to the regular old "insert boot disk" message.
Do you have to start using sata on a brand new format, or is it possible to use it after Windows has already been installed, like i'm trying to do.
FWIW, it's a 60gb desk(death)star that supports ATA100, so it should work. Is SATA only for RAID setups? or can it be used by an independant drive too?
Just wondered what I did wrong.
So i plug in the convertor, the power cable for it, and the sata cable to 'sata1" on the board.
I make sure SATA is enabled in the BIOS, and save settings. It gets to the sata BIOS, and says to press ctrl-s or F4, and I tried both keys about 4 different times on each restart, and it just acts like i never pressed the keys, and then says it can find no disks, and then proceeds to the regular old "insert boot disk" message.
Do you have to start using sata on a brand new format, or is it possible to use it after Windows has already been installed, like i'm trying to do.
FWIW, it's a 60gb desk(death)star that supports ATA100, so it should work. Is SATA only for RAID setups? or can it be used by an independant drive too?
Just wondered what I did wrong.