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Using SATA drives with IDE
Hi,
I am having a problem setting up my system with an IDE hard drive. I bought the system used with a SATA drive as the main disk drive. I had added an IDE drive and things were working fine, with the IDE drive working as the E drive. I have data on that drive from a previous system. For some reason a problem developed and a friend tried to fix things. Now, the only way to fix things was to remove that IDE drive. Having gotten things back to working right, I tried to put that IDE drive back in. Unfortunately, that drive insists on being the boot drive. This wasn't happening previously. I get a message saying I should check things out in the CMOS BIOS. I don't see any settings that distinguish between the SATA hard drive and the IDE hard drive. Boot-up options include Hard drive, floppy, CDROM, etc. What should I look for? Any suggestions, help? Thanks so much, Bruce |
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I am having a problem setting up my system with an IDE hard drive. I
bought the system used with a SATA drive as the main disk drive. I had added an IDE drive and things were working fine, with the IDE drive working as the E drive. I have data on that drive from a previous system. For some reason a problem developed and a friend tried to fix things. Now, the only way to fix things was to remove that IDE drive. Having gotten things back to working right, I tried to put that IDE drive back in. Unfortunately, that drive insists on being the boot drive. This wasn't happening previously. I get a message saying I should check things out in the CMOS BIOS. I don't see any settings that distinguish between the SATA hard drive and the IDE hard drive. Boot-up options include Hard drive, floppy, CDROM, etc. What should I look for? Any suggestions, help? There should be a submenu for hard drives which lets you change the hard drive order. --- KC COMPUTERS www.kc-computers.com Computer Sales & Service since 1991!!! See customer ratings at: www.resellerratings.com/seller1595.html |
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You can't put an IDE drive on the first IDE connector
... IDE 1. You have to put it on IDE 2 or the 2nd connector on your mobo. Note: Others will dispute this, but they are dead wrong. Move your cable. If you have a DVD drive, you'll have to slave it to the IDE hard drive. Put nothing on IDE 1. Also, in your BIOS, you need to disable RAID if you see a place to do that. Then you should be able to put your SATA on SATA 0, and it will become the default boot drive. johns |
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johns wrote:
You can't put an IDE drive on the first IDE connector .. IDE 1. You have to put it on IDE 2 or the 2nd connector on your mobo. Wrong. Note: Others will dispute this, but they are dead wrong. Have fun explaining how come it used to work fine. Move your cable. If you have a DVD drive, you'll have to slave it to the IDE hard drive. Put nothing on IDE 1. Wrong. Also, in your BIOS, you need to disable RAID if you see a place to do that. Then you should be able to put your SATA on SATA 0, and it will become the default boot drive. The default is completely irrelevant. |
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Rod Speed wrote:
johns wrote: You can't put an IDE drive on the first IDE connector .. IDE 1. You have to put it on IDE 2 or the 2nd connector on your mobo. Wrong. Note: Others will dispute this, but they are dead wrong. Have fun explaining how come it used to work fine. Move your cable. If you have a DVD drive, you'll have to slave it to the IDE hard drive. Put nothing on IDE 1. Wrong. Also, in your BIOS, you need to disable RAID if you see a place to do that. Then you should be able to put your SATA on SATA 0, and it will become the default boot drive. The default is completely irrelevant. The *order* of boot drives is EXTREMELY relevant; you are incorrect. |
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Really rod? It is wrong?
Tell us more, you so smart . . . -g |
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:02:10 GMT, Robert Baer
wrote: The *order* of boot drives is EXTREMELY relevant; you are incorrect. Any board modern enough to support SATA should have sufficient bios settings to select any connected drive to boot from- with the exception of discrete add-on controllers from board-soldered chips or PCI/etc card, in which case it may only be a device boot choice when the device bios takes it from there as per user selection of boot drive. Either way, to not be able to select the boot drive should be considered a significant bios bug (if this is actually the case) and a bios update should be sought - and the problem reported to the board manufacturer if the corrected bios doesn't exist yet. |
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Robert Baer wrote
Rod Speed wrote johns wrote You can't put an IDE drive on the first IDE connector .. IDE 1. You have to put it on IDE 2 or the 2nd connector on your mobo. Wrong. Note: Others will dispute this, but they are dead wrong. Have fun explaining how come it used to work fine. Move your cable. If you have a DVD drive, you'll have to slave it to the IDE hard drive. Put nothing on IDE 1. Wrong. Also, in your BIOS, you need to disable RAID if you see a place to do that. Then you should be able to put your SATA on SATA 0, and it will become the default boot drive. The default is completely irrelevant. The *order* of boot drives is EXTREMELY relevant; Irrelevant to what was being discussed above. you are incorrect. Nope. |
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Some pig ignorant gutless ****wit desperately cowering behind
Geoff wrote just what you'd expect from a pig ignorant desperately cowering gutless ****wit. |
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On 27 Nov 2006 16:40:04 -0800, "johns" wrote:
You can't put an IDE drive on the first IDE connector .. IDE 1. You have to put it on IDE 2 or the 2nd connector on your mobo. Note: Others will dispute this, but they are dead wrong. Move your cable. If you have a DVD drive, you'll have to slave it to the IDE hard drive. Put nothing on IDE 1. Also, in your BIOS, you need to disable RAID if you see a place to do that. Then you should be able to put your SATA on SATA 0, and it will become the default boot drive. Depends what sort of SATA service your bios/os allows. My Aopen board does three modes; Combined - in which the drives are 'mapped', effectively using IDE 0 for the primary SATA channel; Enhanced - in which all channels are available, though not under W9X/ME; and SATA only. Also, on some boards RAID is switched on when SATA is, regardless of whether you have a RAID setup in place or not. This usually results in a 5 second delay in bootup whilst the RAID setup times out. Regards, -- Stephen Howard - Woodwind repairs & period restorations www.shwoodwind.co.uk Emails to: showard{whoisat}shwoodwind{dot}co{dot}uk |
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