Hi there, so at the moment I've got 2 hard disks:
#1 WDC WD2500AAKS-00VSA0 (250GB Western Digital)
#2 WDC WD1600AAJS-00PSA0 (160GB Western Digitial)
Motherboard: Gigabyte EP45-DS3L
Ok so, #1 hard disk is about 1 year old, where as #2 hard disk is about 2-3 years old... The problem is my computer doesn't detect the second disk as a bootable disk unless I boot with SATA AHCI enabled.
If I'm booted into Windows XP it will detect it as a storage device/drive, but if I don't enable SATA AHCI, it doesn't come up in BIOS under boot order, and it won't boot an operating system if one is installed on it because it will say something like "Hard drive not found".
Now, does anyone have any idea why this is? Is this a problem with the hard drive or the motherboard? If I was to get a new hard drive (one that isn't like 3 years old) would it work like it's supposed to and I can leave SATA AHCI disabled?
Turning SATA AHCI off causes the drive to disappear from standard CMOS features. I'm finding it hard to believe it is a problem with my BIOS/motherboard though because it's basically brand new, and it detects my newer hard disk with no problem what so ever.
I tried to install SATA AHCI with this windows install but it wouldn't work... It didn't like my drivers that I had on the floppy. I tried the Intel ones and I also tried the JMicron ones with no luck.
Oh and if I enable SATA AHCI in the BIOS then my second disk is listed (my first disk is always listed... Even if AHCI is on/off) and I can boot off it into operating systems such as Linux (not Windows though because it doesn't like the floppy drivers I tried to install with it to get it to work with AHCI).
Thanks!
#1 WDC WD2500AAKS-00VSA0 (250GB Western Digital)
#2 WDC WD1600AAJS-00PSA0 (160GB Western Digitial)
Motherboard: Gigabyte EP45-DS3L
Ok so, #1 hard disk is about 1 year old, where as #2 hard disk is about 2-3 years old... The problem is my computer doesn't detect the second disk as a bootable disk unless I boot with SATA AHCI enabled.
If I'm booted into Windows XP it will detect it as a storage device/drive, but if I don't enable SATA AHCI, it doesn't come up in BIOS under boot order, and it won't boot an operating system if one is installed on it because it will say something like "Hard drive not found".
Now, does anyone have any idea why this is? Is this a problem with the hard drive or the motherboard? If I was to get a new hard drive (one that isn't like 3 years old) would it work like it's supposed to and I can leave SATA AHCI disabled?
Turning SATA AHCI off causes the drive to disappear from standard CMOS features. I'm finding it hard to believe it is a problem with my BIOS/motherboard though because it's basically brand new, and it detects my newer hard disk with no problem what so ever.
I tried to install SATA AHCI with this windows install but it wouldn't work... It didn't like my drivers that I had on the floppy. I tried the Intel ones and I also tried the JMicron ones with no luck.
Oh and if I enable SATA AHCI in the BIOS then my second disk is listed (my first disk is always listed... Even if AHCI is on/off) and I can boot off it into operating systems such as Linux (not Windows though because it doesn't like the floppy drivers I tried to install with it to get it to work with AHCI).
Thanks!
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