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Thread ID: 47657 2004-08-02 02:59:00 SATA and ATA drives refuse to coexist Spartacus (3313) Press F1
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257412 2004-08-02 02:59:00 Having recently upgraded my PC, I went with a seagate sata hdd. I wanted to transfer all my data from my old drive, so connected it to an IDE slot on my new DFI Lanparty NF2 ultra motherbd.

The problem is, I can't explicitly set my BIOS to boot off the SATA drive (it does it by default when it's the sole hdd), so when both drives were installed the pc booted from the IDE drive. I tried (all in vain):

ata drive as master,
ata drive as slave,
bios boot device = hdd0,
bios boot device = hdd1,
strong verbal language.

Any suggestions? The new sata drive runs XP pro, the old ata runs ME.

I also can't understand why there is no entry in the bios for a sata drive (the only drives that will show up are the ide primary and secondary master and slave), so any help on this would also be appreciated...

cheers, S
Spartacus (3313)
257413 2004-08-02 03:02:00 connect only the IDE drive, boot with DOS boot disk and set the drive to non booting. i usually randish partistionr but you use whatever tools you have. tweak'e (174)
257414 2004-08-02 03:24:00 Set the BIOS to boot from SCSI Pete O'Neil (250)
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