Re: OT: Windoze can't find disk

[Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David Timms wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
> > On Sunday June 17 2007 5:38:33 pm Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> ...
> > > A fully functional dual-boot FC6/Windoze XP system had its MB replaced.
> > > On being returned (and the disk reinstalled) it booted FC6 just fine,
> > > but XP could not find the disk. Not that it just would not boot, but
> > > that under no circumstances (CD boot, ASR boot, normal boot) could XP
> > > find the disk. The disk partitions are: 1 - NTSF, 2 - /boot, 3 - /.
> > > Any suggestions as to what might be missing? FWIW, the disk is SATA,
> > > and, yes, the driver disk was provided at the appropriate time.
> >
> > Did you try all the different SATA controllers?
> > Did you carefully go through all the BIOS settings?
> BIOS settings seems the place to look. Some have a SATA emulate IDE 
> mode, that might need to be flipped. Or it could be PlugNPlay os 
> installed. Just try one at a time.
>
> DaveT.
   I think your new mother board has 2 IDE plugs and in essance one is 
/devhda and the other is /devhdb and you have the one hard drive plugged 
into /dev/hdb.

Karl