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How to Disable SATA Drives in BIOS???
Hi, Gang:
My main PC has a pair of SATA II hard drives that I use for XP -- a 250-GB boot drive and a 500-GB Data drive with multiple partitions. I also have a PATA IDE drive tray system that lets me swap multiple drives in and out for testing other OSs, etc. On one removable PATA drive I have a duplicate XP install that I use only for games (so the game junk doesn't crud-up my registry, etc). I had a bunch of multiboot problems until I physically disconnected my usual SATA drives and reformatted and reinstalled XP on the IDE drive. Then, each drive had working boot files and the two boot menus didn't interact, etc. I simply let the BIOS default to the 250 SATA drive and use the F9 boot drive selector at startup when I want to boot to the IDE drive. Problem: I don't want to physically disconnect my SATA drives every time I install a new version of Linux onto a removable IDE drive. The damn connectors are hard to get out, and I don't want to stress my MB or the connector blocks on my drives...but I do want to have the drives effectively "out of the system" so I can't accidentally reformat them, wipe out a partition, etc, when I'm installing something on the PATA/IDE bus I tried disabling the drives in the bios, but low-level programs such as Acronis True image and Partition Magic still "see" the drives even though they're "disabled," and I don't want to accidentally nuke them. 1. Can I simply disconnect the SATA power cables from the drives, leaving the hard-to-remove SATA signal cables still attached? Could that damage the drives in any way? Would that effectively disconnect the drives from low-level routines (I assume it would since there's no power)? 2. Is there an effective way to "soft disconnect" the drives in the BIOS, etc? Your help is greatly appreciated! --KK in MN |
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How to Disable SATA Drives in BIOS???
Usually the Integrated Periphs setup lets you disable each IDE channel.
wrote in message ups.com... I tried disabling the drives in the bios, but low-level programs such as Acronis True image and Partition Magic still "see" the drives even though they're "disabled," and I don't want to accidentally nuke them. 1. Can I simply disconnect the SATA power cables from the drives, leaving the hard-to-remove SATA signal cables still attached? Could that damage the drives in any way? Would that effectively disconnect the drives from low-level routines (I assume it would since there's no power)? 2. Is there an effective way to "soft disconnect" the drives in the BIOS, etc? |
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How to Disable SATA Drives in BIOS???
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:17:17 -0700, "
wrote: Hi, Gang: My main PC has a pair of SATA II hard drives that I use for XP -- a 250-GB boot drive and a 500-GB Data drive with multiple partitions. I also have a PATA IDE drive tray system that lets me swap multiple drives in and out for testing other OSs, etc. On one removable PATA drive I have a duplicate XP install that I use only for games (so the game junk doesn't crud-up my registry, etc). I had a bunch of multiboot problems until I physically disconnected my usual SATA drives and reformatted and reinstalled XP on the IDE drive. Then, each drive had working boot files and the two boot menus didn't interact, etc. I simply let the BIOS default to the 250 SATA drive and use the F9 boot drive selector at startup when I want to boot to the IDE drive. Problem: I don't want to physically disconnect my SATA drives every time I install a new version of Linux onto a removable IDE drive. The damn connectors are hard to get out, and I don't want to stress my MB or the connector blocks on my drives...but I do want to have the drives effectively "out of the system" so I can't accidentally reformat them, wipe out a partition, etc, when I'm installing something on the PATA/IDE bus I tried disabling the drives in the bios, but low-level programs such as Acronis True image and Partition Magic still "see" the drives even though they're "disabled," and I don't want to accidentally nuke them. 1. Can I simply disconnect the SATA power cables from the drives, leaving the hard-to-remove SATA signal cables still attached? Could that damage the drives in any way? Would that effectively disconnect the drives from low-level routines (I assume it would since there's no power)? 2. Is there an effective way to "soft disconnect" the drives in the BIOS, etc? What motherboard are you using? Some motherboards allow this; others don't. Your help is greatly appreciated! --KK in MN |
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