Boot from SATA ?

[Ravidhu]

is it possible to boot from a 74GB SATA Drive + SATA enclosure + SATA PCMCIA card ?

i have the above combination with a WD raptor 10000rpm (hehe it feels good to write it!) and a generic SATA pcmcia minus the enclosure, my laptop is a fujitsu N6010 which comes with a 100GB fujitsu 4200rpm HDD - and i would like to boot from me faster WD..

so what i did was load the driver by pressing F6 in a new OS installtion of windows XP (wanted to dual boot with the laptop windows and the external SATA)the driver gets accepted and when i get to the point where i have to select the partition to install windows it only shows the laptop drive ...not the external one

i have installed windows on SATA drives before, had a good SATA 10000 rpm raid array in me destop those days !! (tears come to me eyes :( ) my laptop scores good benchys in everything but the HDD area - any help would be appreciated

what do you guys think ?

[kent1146]

DIdn't you post this on notebookforums.com?

No, you can't boot off of a drive interface unless the BIOS has support for that interface.

In this case, your interface is a PCMCIA card, and it is not possible to boot off of it.

[Ravidhu]

Originally posted by kent1146
DIdn't you post this on notebookforums.com?

No, you can't boot off of a drive interface unless the BIOS has support for that interface.

In this case, your interface is a PCMCIA card, and it is not possible to boot off of it.

thanks for the reply - and yeah i did post this there... i just didnt want to accept the fact that i cant boot off it (wishfull thinking :D )

what happend was i moved to UK form srilanka for my masters and i took my data in a SATA drive - thus i ended up buying a SATA pcmcia card so that i can use whatevers in it

thanks again :) your explanation was better than the "NO - you cant" i got from notebook forums