Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 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.

Did you try a BIOS reset?

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