wildex999

Hi there =)

*Drop down below to the dotted line to read my problem)
But you will miss details*

Yesterday I bought myself some new hardware,
a new motherboard( Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe )
and a new graphics card.

On my old hardware( ABIT motherboard )
I had a Maxtor SATA 250GB HD

It worker like it should when i shut down the computer to set up the new hardware.

I did what i did and took out all plugs, set up new motherboard, followed manual closely.
Start up, and it does not get past a blinking dot when trying to boot something(I got past BIOS)

I had plugged my SATA drive, WITH WINDOWS ON C:, into the SATA1 port on the motherboard. Now apparently that didn't work(Yes, SATA was turned on in BIOS)

I was lucky, as I also had gotten a PCI SATA/150 card with my HD(I used it on my last motherboard )

Same problem here.

Now, I blew dust off my 80GB IDE HD and installed a fresh Windows on it.

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Windows can't seem to read the SATA disk. It just show a un-formated E: on 128GB.
Disk Management show a Disk 1: 233,76GB(Healthy) but shows 128GB RAW data, and 105GB unpartitioned space.

I had 8 partitions on that HD, with stuff I have worked with over the last year, and I hope I haven't lost it.

What should i do to get it to show my partitions? I know they where there before I changed Motherboard.

Oh yeah, Partition Magic shows it as (Yellow) BAD.
Is it broken?
Device Manager shows: Maxtor 6 Y250M0 SCSI Disk Device.

What should I do? Please help me, thanks =)

linderman

hello; you have a common builders error


you must perform a win xp "repair" install not the same as a re-install


the repair install will not mess with any programs or data it will remove all old system drivers from your OS; you will need to reinstall all windows updates, and new motherboard drivers, you mayyyyyyy have to change your boot settings in the advanced to have the sata controller treat your sata drive as IDE mode for now; once the repair install is complete, you will be able to boot into windows, load your sata controller drivers & mother board drivers then reboot / enter bios / change your mode back to Sata mode


this is necessary as the chipset drivers and sata controller drivers are different for you new motherboard


here is what to do

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XP...install.htm#RI

wildex999

Well, after mayor hardware changes I like to start fresh(Windows like to become kinda slow and buggy after a while, and I don't maintain that often)

But, the Windows was on the HDD that the BIOS wouldn't boot of, and Windows Setup just saw it as a RAW 128GB space... =( Didn't detect a windows in there at all.
My guess is that it's the Motherboard, I will tyr to check more around the BIOS settings, the manual arek inda confusing at that point =/

Thanks for trying to help =)


EDIT: As i wrote in the bottom part of long description,
I installed a fresh windows on a 80GB IDE HDD(Wich im using now) but it still won't show me annything of my SATA HDD other than that RAW partition. I have installed all drivers, but it just won't work =(

linderman

the only way to "fix" a raw drive is with data recovery software

google search for "getdataback"



that one is the best!

linderman

or zero fill (wipe & erase) the drive and start over = lose all data



if thats a pill you can swallow >>>> google for Darik's Boot & Nuke (free)

Tumbleweed36

Hi,

Just a quick comment. If you are going to start your Sata drive from scratch (format and all that), then when you go to load the OS disk on your Sata drive, unhook all IDE Hard Drives until you get the OS loaded on the Sata.

wildex999

oh, the recovery program looks nice, tried it.
But is there no way to make the windows see the partitions without zero fill the drive, or recovery? If no other options are available, I will most likely use recovery on what I can't loose.

Annyway, thanks a lot =) Really helped me with that program link ^^

wildex999

This can now be closed, I have found the solution.

Someone on another forum pointed me to a program called "TestDisk"
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

and it did wonders.
After a quick search it found all my partitions, except my windows one(But it wasn't the most important) because I had already managed to write over it =/

Apparently I had a broken partition table, how i got that, I dunno...

anyway, thanks for the help =)

linderman

thanks for sharing your solution, hope the new set-up works out for ya