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| Thread ID: 88488 | 2008-03-29 04:11:00 | Using my secondary harddrive as main? Won't work? | JohDoom (13553) | Press F1 |
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| 653896 | 2008-03-29 04:11:00 | Hey guys, so basically I have one IDE drive which was the only drive in my computer, and contains everything. I recently just bought a SATA-2 Barracuda drive, and I partitioned and installed windows on it also, and it is now considered the (F:) drive. Upon boot up, I'm able to choose between the two operating systems. I just transfered some of my valuable data to my new drive. And with that being done, I want to remove my IDE drive (C:) from my computer and make my new drive the Master drive now. Just a while ago I did just that. I removed the IDE drive from the computer and left the SATA drive in there. Upon boot up, the motherboard posts and everythings in check in the bios (I hope), but the drive would not load into windows. The motherboard does detect this drive, and the priority of this drive is in the position of the old ide drive now. But upon loading, I come to a black screen which informs me to input a drive, or boot priority. I'm not sure what I did wrong, could anyone assist me? |
JohDoom (13553) | ||
| 653897 | 2008-03-29 04:18:00 | Did you change the bootdisk to the SATA, in the BIOS? If its got windows on it now?? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 653898 | 2008-03-29 04:34:00 | I had the same problem. I have a SATA hard drive and SATA DVD burner. On the IDE connector I have an IDE hard drive as slave & IDE CD as master, cable select. In this situation the IDE hard drive has preference over the SATA . You have two settings to make in Bios. Under Hard drives set the SATA as primary boot and the IDE as secondary boot. If you have removed the IDE drive the SATA will not be the Primary unless told so! When you have set the drives, go to the Boot Priority setting and set your CD as 1st boot & your SATA hard drive as second. Make the floppy the third or leave it out. The 1st page of your BIOS was showing the SATA drive, but it was not on the boot list.:) |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 653899 | 2008-03-29 04:38:00 | You shouldnt put IDE hdds on cable select, it doesnt always work | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 653900 | 2008-03-29 04:50:00 | hmmm.... when I removed my ide drive, I did not change anything, and when I booted the computer up, I went into the bios, the primary and secondary boot drive option was not there anymore. So Mzee, are you saying that I should change the bios BEFORE I remove my ide drive? Change my Sata to primary, save, and then turn off my computer and remove the ide drive?? Even now, with both the drives in, when I set the sata to primary, it still shows "Reboot and select proper boot device, or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key" This is also shown when the ide drive is removed |
JohDoom (13553) | ||
| 653901 | 2008-03-29 06:01:00 | So Mzee, are you saying that I should change the bios BEFORE I remove my ide drive? Even now, with both the drives in, when I set the sata to primary, it still shows "Reboot and select proper boot device, or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key" This is also shown when the ide drive is removed No . Put the Windows CD back in, select R for recovery console . Type: Fixboot |
pctek (84) | ||
| 653902 | 2008-03-29 07:36:00 | You shouldnt put IDE hdds on cable select, it doesnt always work thats a very generalised statement........yes sure it doesn't always work but SOME types of drives, western digital in particular LIKE c/s.......and wont boot otherwise..... |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 653903 | 2008-03-29 21:55:00 | Maybe it has something to do with my J-Micron??? usually after the motherboard boot up page, a J-micron message pops up and it shows my IDE model number drive. I'm not sure what I'm doing... but I went to the bios and changed the J-micron option to raid, and after the post, I pressed cntrl-J to get me to the raid page, yet my SATA drive is not listed there. Any other advice guys? |
JohDoom (13553) | ||
| 653904 | 2008-03-29 22:23:00 | Did you try what Pctek said in post #6 If the SATA drive is being detected as you said it is, then there's more than likely software problem. If I read your problem correctly -Going from your original post Upon boot up, I'm able to choose between the two operating systems. I just transfered some of my valuable data to my new drive. And with that being done, I want to remove my IDE drive (C from my computer and make my new drive the Master drive now. The boot.ini is set to dual boot - if you remove one of the drives its looking for the other drive. If thats the case thenThis article (pcsupport.about.com) explains how to repair it. |
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