Booting from SATA when IDE is connected ?

[cschoppe]

Hi All first post here btw

I have a new system with a WD 120gb SATA drive on a MSI neo PT8 mobo.
It all works great when i am am not trying to o/clock it and then break it which has happened twice in the last week =\

The problem i have is that on the secondary IDE channel i have my DVDrom and a IBM 60gb IDE drive which has an old version of w2k installed on it

When i boot the system it always tries to boot from the IDE first and obviously loads w2k rather then XP from the SATA drive.

The manual is pretty useless there is nothing in there about this at all.

I have also turned off the entire boot order in the BIOS so it boots from SATA first, there is the boot other option which is enabled and still makes no difference to how it boots.

Is there anything i am missing, as i would like to get this drive working so i can format it and have some extra space

Cheers

Chris

 

[magratton]

Welcome to Anandtech Cschoppe.

If your MSI board is anything similar to my NF7-S then I had to turn on both the SATA and SATA Raid settings in the bios in order for it to start using my SATA HD even though I told it to do so in the boot order in the BIOS. This is even though I am not using Raid on my system. Also note, you need to have loaded the SATA controller's driver when you installed windows.

The SATA/SATA-Raid option in the bios has tripped me up more than once.

 

[Megatomic]

Yes, you need to find the SATA BOOT ROM option in your BIOS cschoppe. Perhaps you can use your motherboard manual to help navigate the BIOS menu structure.

If you can't find that option then you may need to update your BIOS to the latest version. Many modern motherboards now have an "in windows" BIOS flashing utility that makes this easier and more foolproof than ever.

 

[cschoppe]

The PC happily boots from my SATA drive all the time when the IDE isnt installed its only if i put in the IDE drive on one the channels

Megatomic : manual is no good, as i said before its next to useless

BIOS is also updated to the latest version as well


I have checked all through my bios there is no SATA option in there

Chris

 

[Megatomic]

Hmm, I'll look in my BIOS and see what I can find.