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n0otro · 03-26-2007, 09:11 PM

I have three hard drives installed on my computer. C: & D: are SATA raptor 10K's, 74 & 36gb respectively. drive E: is a 300gb IDE drive.

My computer is a Giga-byte M55Plus-S3G with an Athlon 64 3200 processor

I've sucessfully had it running for several months running XP & Vista, no problems whatsoever.

A few times here or there i've had a problem at boot where my SATA drives wouldn't be recognized and I get a DISK BOOT FAILURE error since my E: drive is not bootable. Usually I reset the computer and everything is fine, SATA drives recognized and the computer boots like a charm. In the past week this has happened 3-4 times, and today I can't get my computer to regonize my SATA drives at all.

I want to doubt that the hard drives are both bad because they are relatively new(3-4 months old), and purchased at different locations. it's also odd that they would both fail at the same time.

To me it sounds like a Motherboard/BIOS issue. Has anyone had this problem before? is this likely?

Thanks for your help.

03-26-2007, 09:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
n0otro Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 10 OS: winxp	MOBO won't recognize SATA drives - sometimes I have three hard drives installed on my computer. C: & D: are SATA raptor 10K's, 74 & 36gb respectively. drive E: is a 300gb IDE drive. My computer is a Giga-byte M55Plus-S3G with an Athlon 64 3200 processor I've sucessfully had it running for several months running XP & Vista, no problems whatsoever. A few times here or there i've had a problem at boot where my SATA drives wouldn't be recognized and I get a DISK BOOT FAILURE error since my E: drive is not bootable. Usually I reset the computer and everything is fine, SATA drives recognized and the computer boots like a charm. In the past week this has happened 3-4 times, and today I can't get my computer to regonize my SATA drives at all. I want to doubt that the hard drives are both bad because they are relatively new(3-4 months old), and purchased at different locations. it's also odd that they would both fail at the same time. To me it sounds like a Motherboard/BIOS issue. Has anyone had this problem before? is this likely? Thanks for your help.