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Booting from sata

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my mobo is a biostar n4sli a9 i had trouble getting a maxtor ide to boot so i wanna get a sata drive to boot and what not but i can't get i t to boot.

any ideas? i know it has something to do with a setting in bios
 
More details needed.

There will be an option somewhere in the bios for altering boot order.

You can also hit a key during bootup that will allow you to bring up a boot menu & choose what device to boot from, assuming you've already set the order you want in the bios.
 
I'm not sure if you still have the IDE drive or you have already replaced it with SATA.

Howsomever, I've recently had a similar problem. I have an old Chaintech board and two IDE HDD (Western Digital). Will get a new Gigabyte board tomorrow, so I wanted to use the old HDDs without taking up the one IDE connector on the new board. Picked up two little IDE-SATA converters with SATA cable(14.95 ea at Microcenter), jumpered both drives to "single" (on WD 9 pin it's 1-2, 7-8) and plugged into SATA ports 0 and 1 on the Chaintech board. Made sure the boot drive was on SATA 0 and that RAID was disabled in BIOS. Works great. Now when the new board is installed, I'll just connect my IDE drives to the Gigabyte SATA ports and fire 'er up. Hope all goes according to plan.
 
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