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    IDE or SATA

    Discussion in 'HP' started by clip, Feb 21, 2007.

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    I found this kind of weird because Acronis acknowledge my notebook HDD as IDE.
     

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    Check with your BIOS to see if your drive is operating in SATA or Legacy (IDE) mode. The hard drive can do both.
     
    Greg, Feb 21, 2007
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    I set the NATIVE SATE to Disable in BIOS, which is needed to install WinXP.
    After XP installation, I set it back to Enable, but it ran into boot issue.
    I guy at HP said that this can only be fix during the process of installing XP, and it also requires a floppy drive (which is kind of hard and worth finding).
     
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    I've got an experience when trying out Vista Ultimate x64.
    That is first I install Vista, then I update the WinFlash from F.14 to F.15.
    After that the computer restart and cannot boot up, even with Vista Troubleshooting. So I reinstalling Vista again (overwrite), and everything worked great, the BIOS is now in version F.15 also.
    However, I feel like I prefer XP, so I remove Vista, and started installing XP, at which point I discovered that the HDD is set to SATA in Vista.
     
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    I did it from step 16 on, and did ran into booting problem.
    Now, no matter I disable or enable SATA NATIVE, the annoying blue warning screen pop up just right after the XP logo appear (with a bar running to the right below the logo).
     
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    Try using a disc management program to totally WIPE the drive clean /over=write the boot sector... Sounds like some info is in the boot sector causing problems.
     
    WeAreNotAlone, Feb 21, 2007
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    I have two SATAs and Acronis displays the same thing about mine too. I think it is an Acronis issue...except I don't have any problems with Acronis at thsi time.

    --Mick
     
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    Sorry to hear that but I've followed those steps and got no problem at all. By having no problem, I have no idea how to fix it though. You might try to follow what "WeAreNotAlone" said. Also, try safe mode in both disable/enable SATA and see if it works or not.
     
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    take it easy, man. we're all exploring laptop.
    what I did was I use the ALL IN ONE DVDs to recover my laptop to factory state.
    the thing I hate most is that if I restore it to factory state, there are a bunch of processes running background (use Task Manager to check it).
     
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    Here is another method you can do without having Floppy drive. It's for DV2000T but I found it a bit complicated at that time. So, I prefer the first method I've sent to you.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=59471

    If you make it right, you can use that CD with any DV2000T from that point on. For me, once I've done with the first method, I installed the application I needed, then, ghost it using Acronis so that whenever I need to reinstall it again, just restore from that image file.
     
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    Thankx abx5, nLite is a cool thing, I wish I had known it long before.
     
    clip, Feb 23, 2007
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