SATA and IDE drive problems

I have a 120GB seagate IDE drive and a 250GB WD SATA drive. I want to
boot from the SATA drive and use the IDE drive as extra storage.
Problem is, no matter how I configure the IDE drive (slave/master) the
system wants to boot from it and not the SATA drive.

I have windows loaded on the SATA drive (using it right now, without
the IDE drive hooked up) and the IDE drive is just NTFS formatted
empty space.

My BIOS has an option to select which drive is priority, but it won't
let me switch them. With the IDE drive hooked up the BIOS shows the
SATA drive as IDE 4 and the IDE drive as IDE 0. Of course, when it
tries to boot it says "NTLDR not found hit ctrl-alt-del to reboot".

How can I get it to boot from the SATA drive?

Thanks

<edlance@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a 120GB seagate IDE drive and a 250GB WD SATA drive. I want to
> boot from the SATA drive and use the IDE drive as extra storage.
> Problem is, no matter how I configure the IDE drive (slave/master) the
> system wants to boot from it and not the SATA drive.
>
> I have windows loaded on the SATA drive (using it right now, without
> the IDE drive hooked up) and the IDE drive is just NTFS formatted
> empty space.
>
> My BIOS has an option to select which drive is priority, but it won't
> let me switch them. With the IDE drive hooked up the BIOS shows the
> SATA drive as IDE 4 and the IDE drive as IDE 0. Of course, when it
> tries to boot it says "NTLDR not found hit ctrl-alt-del to reboot".
>
> How can I get it to boot from the SATA drive?
>
> Thanks
>
What choices in Boot Order? Update the BIOS as it sounds like a bug!

Mike.

On 26 Apr 2007 14:45:42 -0700, edlance@gmail.com wrote:

>I have a 120GB seagate IDE drive and a 250GB WD SATA drive. I want to
>boot from the SATA drive and use the IDE drive as extra storage.
>Problem is, no matter how I configure the IDE drive (slave/master) the
>system wants to boot from it and not the SATA drive.
>
>I have windows loaded on the SATA drive (using it right now, without
>the IDE drive hooked up) and the IDE drive is just NTFS formatted
>empty space.
>
>My BIOS has an option to select which drive is priority, but it won't
>let me switch them.

If you're referring to Hard Disk Drive Priority or Hard Disk Drives,
use the + or - key to move the drives.

> With the IDE drive hooked up the BIOS shows the
>SATA drive as IDE 4 and the IDE drive as IDE 0. Of course, when it
>tries to boot it says "NTLDR not found hit ctrl-alt-del to reboot".
>
>How can I get it to boot from the SATA drive?
>
>Thanks

On Apr 26, 8:18 pm, Andy <1...@2.3> wrote:
> On 26 Apr 2007 14:45:42 -0700, edla...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >I have a 120GB seagate IDE drive and a 250GB WD SATA drive. I want to
> >boot from the SATA drive and use the IDE drive as extra storage.
> >Problem is, no matter how I configure the IDE drive (slave/master) the
> >system wants to boot from it and not the SATA drive.
>
> >I have windows loaded on the SATA drive (using it right now, without
> >the IDE drive hooked up) and the IDE drive is just NTFS formatted
> >empty space.
>
> >My BIOS has an option to select which drive is priority, but it won't
> >let me switch them.
>
> If you're referring to Hard Disk Drive Priority or Hard Disk Drives,
> use the + or - key to move the drives.
>
>
>
> > With the IDE drive hooked up the BIOS shows the
> >SATA drive as IDE 4 and the IDE drive as IDE 0. Of course, when it
> >tries to boot it says "NTLDR not found hit ctrl-alt-del to reboot".
>
> >How can I get it to boot from the SATA drive?
>
> >Thanks- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -



Ok, got it working. Don't know what I did, but I hooked it back up
and booted up and it's fine. Weird. Didn't have to change the BIOS
or anything. Just hooked up the IDE drive again (for the 4th time)
and voila...all is working.