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Topic: Hi folks; this is my first post on this forum; many thanks for allowin

Hi folks; this is my first post on this forum; many thanks for allowing me to subscribe.

I installed a Kingston 128 gb SSD on my old Gateway Pro 933M running XP SP3 and 512mb RAM (the most it can take) in an attempt to improve performance. As the Gateway has no SATA connections (only IDE) I installed an I/O Flex PSA150 PCI SATA controller. The installation went fine; all the drivers worked and XP can see it and the SSD drive. I was able to clone the IDE drive to the SSD succesfully; but, when I disconnect the IDE drive and try to boot with the new SSD, I get a "no hard drive found; do you want to continue booting without a hard driver?" message.

When POSTing, I can see the Kingston drive and am able to enter the RAID setting on the new SATA controller. But, I do not see a way to make the new SSD a primary boot drive. The SATA controller is not an option to select in the system BIOS and the SATA controller also displays no option to make it bootable.

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Re: Hi folks; this is my first post on this forum; many thanks for allowin

First question, is your mobo BIOS set to boot from 'SCSI'?  Are you able to see the SATA BIOS RAID utility on initial boot-up? http://support.gateway.com/s//MOTHERBD/ … 47nv.shtml

I wonder if you have the latest BIOS for your IO Flex SATA controller.  http://www.koutech.com/proddetail.asp?linenumber=169 (Beware - a bad flash can 'brick' your add-in card!)
It may be helpful to post the numbers, etc upon the controller chip itself.  Post the info upon the BIOS chip, as well.

I am only posting the following link for info purposes only. http://www.siliconimage.com/support/index.aspx

Now that XP has assigned a drive letter for your SSD drive (& detected in Device Manager), is it now possible for XP to use this drive as a bootable system partition? (an open question to those who know far more than i)

Is it not also possible that your cloning software, or cloning method is flawed? hmm

Oh, yeah.  No more spam, please. mad

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Re: Hi folks; this is my first post on this forum; many thanks for allowin

@techdude  your second question was answered in his OP. LOL

nawazm007 wrote:

When POSTing, I can see the Kingston drive and am able to enter the RAID setting on the new SATA controller. But, I do not see a way to make the new SSD a primary boot drive. The SATA controller is not an option to select in the system BIOS and the SATA controller also displays no option to make it bootable.

as you pointed out the card may be enabled by the setting "boot from SCSI" but it may also be listed as somthing similar to "Bootable add in card" or "boot from Other"

techdude wrote:

Now that XP has assigned a drive letter for your SSD drive (& detected in Device Manager), is it now possible for XP to use this drive as a bootable system partition? (an open question to those who know far more than i)

You almost hit on another important point, when the OP partitioned the drive did he set the partition as active? This may need to be done as well. big_smile

Seems like the post contains a lot of forum appropriate detail for a spambot... this time it may actually be an honest mistake by a real person in need of advice big_smile.

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