Installing Win 7 on a SATA disk
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Installing Win 7 on a SATA disk
19-10-2009 5:40 PM
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Is there anything I should be wary of using a sata disk for bootup. I don't want to go through the installation and then find the bios can't find the bootup disk.
The motherboard is a MSI P43 NEO-F (less than a year old)
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Re: Installing Win 7 on a SATA disk
19-10-2009 5:48 PM
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The way round this was to disconnect the PATA disk while installing on the SATA then connecting it again afterwards.
Re: Installing Win 7 on a SATA disk
19-10-2009 5:56 PM
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Quote from: Oldjim The way round this was to disconnect the PATA disk while installing on the SATA then connecting it again afterwards.
That sounds a good idea
Re: Installing Win 7 on a SATA disk
19-10-2009 7:03 PM
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Quote from: paulgul Is there anything I should be wary of using a sata disk for bootup.
Should be fine unless (as I think I noted in another thread) you need specific drivers for the SATA controller; these are often RAID controllers and need extra drivers at install time.
That said W7 is quite good at dealing with that, so just "suck it and see".
(100% agree with Oldjim re disconnecting the IDE disk beforehand.)
Re: Installing Win 7 on a SATA disk
20-10-2009 5:52 PM
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The advice by OJ is what I was planning to do.
Not sure if my problem comes from the fact that XP was originally installed on an IDE but it wasn't reformatted before re-use.
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Re: Installing Win 7 on a SATA disk
20-10-2009 6:09 PM
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I really have no need for that IDE drive though, maybe it's time to retire it.
Re: Installing Win 7 on a SATA disk
21-10-2009 12:19 AM
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Quote (100% agree with Oldjim re disconnecting the IDE disk beforehand.)
Just make sure that you put the IDE drive in lower boot priority to the sata one!
I made this mistake on vista, it created a "look at drive Sata drive" kinda bootfile on the IDE drive, i couldnt change that without re installing windows as it completely messed up..
but yeah disable the pata drive, install and enable, i think my issue stemmed from it being one of the first mobos with both ide + sata (and it was cheap!)
Re: Installing Win 7 on a SATA disk
21-10-2009 1:07 PM
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