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XP on SATA and on IDE

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by AndrewJRussell, 2006/09/14.

  1. 2006/09/14
    AndrewJRussell

    AndrewJRussell Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi

    Recently my lovely Western Digital IDE decided it didnt like windows no more or vise versa and decided to destroy the windows installed on it.. (who knows..)

    So i found this to be the perfect excuse to buy myself a nice new 300gig Sata II drive :) I've had the Sata drive up and running for around 3 weeks now, alongside a secondary IDE hard drive i had set up, but since it doesnt have windows installed, the pc boots windows from the Sata drive, perfect!

    But now i wish to connect the Western Digital IDE drive to my PC as well, to recover lots of files, approx 50 gig then format it and start afresh on it as a Slave.

    But as the boot manager on the Western Digital one is still intact and regonises their is a windows partition on it with XP installed, the computer begins to boot from the IDE, rather then the SATA... :mad:

    What can i do to delete the boot manager from the Western Digital, without compromising the files on the hard drive, so it will just boot from the SATA and i can browse the files on the Western Digital IDE.

    I believe my Bios does not have a 'boot from SCSI/SATA' option.

    Motherboard: ASUS A8V Deluxe - Socket 939 - VIA K8T800pro chipset

    Any help please :)
     
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    Christer

    Christer Geek Member Staff

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    I have come across a similar situation on Asus P4P800. A SATA as boot drive and a PATA in a mobile rack for backups. When the PATA is powered off and the computer is restarted, it boots from the SATA. When the PATA is powered back on, the computer insists on booting from it. Since there is no OS installed on the PATA, there is an "invalid disk" message (or words to that meaning). Each time the PATA is powered back on, a detour into BIOS is necessary to reselect the SATA as first hard disk to boot from. When the PATA stays powered on, there is no problem. It only happens when the hardware configuration is changed.

    Check the BIOS for a setting to select the boot order of the hard disks. (Boot order is set to FDD > CD-ROM > HDD > order of HDDs. It is the last choice that has to be reselected.)

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