Booting from SATA drive

[Matt_2000_17]

I am trying to get my system to boot from my SATA drive yet I keep getting a drive read error when it tries to boot. I have installed the SATA drivers when prompted by Windows installation. I can't seem to find a way round this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated?

See my signature for my current setup.

Cheers!!!

[Max Tractor]

Do you have it turned on in the bios?

[Matt_2000_17]

My motherboard does detect it in the BIOS/boot up

[Max Tractor]

Go into bios and manually detect it, then go to boot device order and make sure it is correct

[Matt_2000_17]

I've tried changing it's priority to number 1 but I still get a drive read error.

what boot device does SATA come under? Is it just the plain hard disk or something else?

[wannabgeek]

I understand there is a problem with Maxtor HD and Nvidia chipset drivers if you check on the Mesh board it may help!

[Matt_2000_17]

I've managed to come across a program called Maxblast 4 that allows me to make my SATA drive bootable and transfer the windows files across.

Many thanks to all of you.