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IDE/SATA drive mix can't set boot drive
I have a seagate 120GB IDE drive and a WD 250GB SATA drive. I want to
boot from the SATA drive, but the system keeps trying to boot from the IDE drive. Looking at the BIOS, it says the SATA drive is "IDE 4" (but it is plugged into the SATA 1 connection) and the IDE drive is "IDE 0". The BIOS won't let me switch the boot priority on the hard drives. How do I get my system to boot from the SATA drive? I need the IDE drive in the system as it has data that I need to transfer to the SATA drive (the IDE drive is going bad and I need to get the data off of it before it completely dies). Thanks |
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IDE/SATA drive mix can't set boot drive
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ups.com... I have a seagate 120GB IDE drive and a WD 250GB SATA drive. I want to boot from the SATA drive, but the system keeps trying to boot from the IDE drive. Looking at the BIOS, it says the SATA drive is "IDE 4" (but it is plugged into the SATA 1 connection) and the IDE drive is "IDE 0". The BIOS won't let me switch the boot priority on the hard drives. How do I get my system to boot from the SATA drive? I need the IDE drive in the system as it has data that I need to transfer to the SATA drive (the IDE drive is going bad and I need to get the data off of it before it completely dies). The SATA drive should really show up in the BIOS as a DATA drive! What does the BIOS say and what does the system do if you remove the cables from the IDE drive? |
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IDE/SATA drive mix can't set boot drive
If you re-configure the IDE to a slave position on the IDE cable might do it
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IDE/SATA drive mix can't set boot drive
On 26 Apr, 21:49, wrote:
I have a seagate 120GB IDE drive and a WD 250GB SATA drive. I want to boot from the SATA drive, but the system keeps trying to boot from the IDE drive. Looking at the BIOS, it says the SATA drive is "IDE 4" (but it is plugged into the SATA 1 connection) and the IDE drive is "IDE 0". The BIOS won't let me switch the boot priority on the hard drives. How do I get my system to boot from the SATA drive? I need the IDE drive in the system as it has data that I need to transfer to the SATA drive (the IDE drive is going bad and I need to get the data off of it before it completely dies). Thanks you can get it off with an IDE-USB adaptor. Regarding MBRDs with IDE and SATA connectors. I think you need to look at and analyse the following.. What ports does the MBRD have... What are you calling 0 and 1.. and 2.. e.g. Does the MBRD have 2 IDE and 2 SATA? And define your terms. If you say IDE 1, I don't know if you mean that the 2 IDe ports are IDE1 and IDE2. Or IDE0 and IDE1. Confusingly it's possible in theory, that IDE may be labelled from 0 and SATA from 1, or vice versa. My experience is with 2 boards. I recall one , perhaps both. Had 2 IDE ports and 2 SATA ports. When choosing in the BIOS to use SATA with IDE, you lose one IDE port. You can then have 4 drives.. 2 on the IDE port, one on SATA 1, one on SATA 2. The BIOS then numbers the 1,2,3,4 depending on how you set the BIOS. One possibility I remember, was as BIOS which when using IDE and SATA, numbered the drives under the pretence that you had primary IDE and secondary IDE. And you choose the primary controller. You can tell it to treat the 2 SATA ports as "Primary". And the IDE port as Secondary. Then SATA0 would be drive 1, SATA1 would be drive 2. IDE would have drive 3 and drive 4(position on cable, master n slave). It's possible you got your one labelled as drive 4, by choosing SATA as primary controller (so, IDE as secondary controller) and putting it as slave. see thread: SATA with IDE - my experiences of it ng: alt.comp.hardware link: http://tinyurl.com/2xewsw "date": jan 2007 I also write this ins some other post in a thread called "installing 1 SATA HDD" (also jan 2007) "I posted a thread after yours with my experience/soluition.. But I had a board with 2 SATA and 2 IDE , and found that if you want both SATA and IDE, then you can't use one of the IDEs. That's my experience with the board I tried. It's the only one I tried with 2 SATA and 2 IDE. The board I tried with 2 SATA and 1 IDE let me fill them all. You didn't say which IDE channel your drives are on.. but try applying that rule. " --- I haven't messed with this much. I messed with it a little bit in jan of this year.. And I did a brain dump of my findings.. for the archives. I hope the information is helpful. |
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IDE/SATA drive mix can't set boot drive
On 27 Apr, 22:41, John McGaw wrote:
wrote: I have a seagate 120GB IDE drive and a WD 250GB SATA drive. I want to boot from the SATA drive, but the system keeps trying to boot from the IDE drive. Looking at the BIOS, it says the SATA drive is "IDE 4" (but it is plugged into the SATA 1 connection) and the IDE drive is "IDE 0". The BIOS won't let me switch the boot priority on the hard drives. How do I get my system to boot from the SATA drive? I need the IDE drive in the system as it has data that I need to transfer to the SATA drive (the IDE drive is going bad and I need to get the data off of it before it completely dies). Thanks Some early SATA BIOSs played silly games trying to make those new-fangled SATA drives look like regular IDE drives. It wasn't a silly game.. You may be able to turn off this emulation if this is the case on your MB. I didn't when I had it. You just tell it which is "primary controller". And it orders them occordingly. 1,2(for the primary) 3,4 for the secondary. With the BIOSs that don't do that 'game' i'm not sure how you cna change the ordering.. if it's possible?? The BIOS I have in mind that didn't play the game, was on a Dell.. I didn't see a way to reorder the drives so they were numbered differently. But I could see how they'd be numbered by looking at the order they were listed in the BIOS.. It just wasn't possible as far as I could see, to change that order. The order is relevant if you're using Norton Ghost 'cos it just refers to drive 1,2,3,4 e.t.c. and you have to know which drive is which!! I found the BIOS referred to SATA0,SATA1,IDE0,IDE1 in that order, and so norton used 1,2,3,4 in that order. But it was nice that the BIOSs that played what you call a game, let you change the ordering. Maybe it was possible i nthe ones that don't play a game.. how is ordering changed on MBRDs that don't play a game? If it's not possible, then the only way he can change the number assigned to a drive, is to put it on a different port. Nevertheless, changing the numbering like that is irrelevant anyway! I don't see a necessity to make IDE 1,2 and SATA 3,4. But still, having the ability to do that is good. snip |
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IDE/SATA drive mix can't set boot drive
On 26 Apr, 21:49, wrote:
I have a seagate 120GB IDE drive and a WD 250GB SATA drive. I want to boot from the SATA drive, but the system keeps trying to boot from the IDE drive. Looking at the BIOS, it says the SATA drive is "IDE 4" (but it is plugged into the SATA 1 connection) and the IDE drive is "IDE 0". The BIOS won't let me switch the boot priority on the hard drives. How do I get my system to boot from the SATA drive? I need the IDE drive in the system as it has data that I need to transfer to the SATA drive (the IDE drive is going bad and I need to get the data off of it before it completely dies). Thanks The drive you boot off is separate to whether the BIOS considers a drive 1,2,3,4 or what port the drive is on. I'll bet the BIOS does let you boot off any drive. Look again to change the boot order, or to choose what drive you boot from. I'm sure it's possible.. You just can't find the option. I reckon this actually has nothing to do with the issues of having SATA and IDE. (initially I posted about the issues).. You may be able to highlight a drive in the BIOS and move it up or down with PAGE-UP or PAGE-DOWN.. It's a simple problem of finding the setting to set the boot sequence. But if it really is something about numbering 1,2,3,4 and not letting you boot from disk 4, then consider the IDE SATA issues, you should be able to move your drive to another port or possibly even change the numbering from the BIOS. And if all that fails. Since your goal is to recover the data anyway.. You can use an IDE-USB adaptor |
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