On 14/03/2012 17:26, Aydan wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> I did wonder if some BIOS setting had been changed which alters the
>> apparent numbering of the drives or something... but no.
>>
>> Obviously, I tried booting the Windows XP CD to see if I can ask it to
>> reset the MBR or something... but no, Windows claims that no HD exists.
>> *sigh* Windows XP has an irritating habit of "not seeing" SATA
>> controllers. :-P
>
> If it's SATA check if the controller runs in IDE or AHCI mode in the BIOS.

Yeah, I did think about that. AFAIK, Windows XP can't handle AHCI mode, 
so I was wondering if it was originally set to IDE and somehow got 
changed to AHCI... But no, apparently there isn't an option to change it.

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