SATA drives

[happy snapper]

My pc at home has a IDE boot drive and 2 250GB SATA data drives today it stopped seing the SATA drives HELP?

I guess the SATA Bios has scewed it self soem how can anyone rember the key F6 may on boot up to acces the SATA bios? its an MSI 865PE motherboard

>> Edited by happy snapper on Saturday 7th January 10:42

[bigdods]

Open the case, unplug SATA cables at both hard drive and motherboard end. Then plug back in. My dads PC did this a few weeks back. Looks like one of the cables has worked loose even though they appeared to be connected ok. Or maybe some dust had worked into the connector. All worked fine after plugging back in.

Worth a try before you dive into the BIOS etc.

[happy snapper]

Had to tweek the bios all OK. If you want to use IDE and SATA drives you much set the bios to P-ATA otherwise it tries to boot from the first ATA drive..