SATA and WIN 2000

Yes

I read:

IF 2000 is installed BUT won't boot or show as bootable at post run XP and then set the 2000 partition as Active in Disk Management.

I think you guys are getting me all wrong. I have a fully functional two OS system on a normal IDE drive. I am just seeking to get both OS's to recognize a SATA drive with my particular setup. There is something with WIN 2000 that fails to recognize the drive. It is only a storage drive. I am not intending to change that option. I was just curious if anybody knew a solution. My MOBO is a couple years behind the curve and so are my OS's but that's okay. I'm a hobbyist.

OK, sanity check...

The drive is seen in XP, it is a physically separate storage drive.
The drive is not seen in 2k - you have sp4 loaded and have loaded the drivers.

So in device manager, does the sata drive appear? If it does, does it appear in disk management? If it does, does 2k recognise the file system?

If it doesn't appear in device manager then you have not installed the sata driver

What files system did you use to format with in xp?

On rereading this thread, I think you installed the inf driver, but not the one under IDE marked Intel(R) Application Accelerator RAID Edition 3.5R for Windows 2000/XP

I know you are not using raid, but the SATA ports still need driving - do you have a scsi/raid device in device manager? If not, you need one!

The driver missing would be iteatapi.sys (this is applicable to XP and 2000).

In XP it is in C:\Windows\system32\drivers.

Just copying over to 2000 should work on boot of 2000 I think.


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