Booting off SATA

[eightentity]

I recently built a new PC with an MSI K8N Neo motherboard. I have a 200 gig SATA drive, installed winxp on it, ran and booted fine, all that stuff. But when i tried to hook up my old IDE drives as well, the system insisted on trying to boot from the IDE drives and I would get an "NTDLY not found" error. There's not option to specify a drive in the BIOS; it only gives the options of CD-ROM, Floppy, Hard Disk, USB HD, etc. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

 

[Paul Ma]

you have to change the jumpers on the IDE hard drive to make it a slave.

 

[MDE]

Try to set it to boot from SCSI.

 

[eightentity]

Originally posted by: Paul Ma
you have to change the jumpers on the IDE hard drive to make it a slave.

the problem is i have two drives on the same IDE channel (one master, one slave) in addition to my SATA drive, i'm afriad setting both IDE drives to slave will screw up one of my drives.

 

[Paul Ma]

it won't screw up anything. Just set them both to slave. The jumpers are there to override any bios defaults.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: MDE
Try to set it to boot from SCSI.

Yes.

And you can leave one IDE drive as Master & one as slave, since they are on a separate channel from the SATA drive.

 

[eightentity]

Originally posted by: Paul Ma
it won't screw up anything. Just set them both to slave. The jumpers are there to override any bios defaults.

u sure? because on older comps without SATA, if you had both drives on one IDE channel and one was set to master and the other slave, you could potentially end up with a corrupted drive...

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: eightentity

Originally posted by: Paul Ma
it won't screw up anything. Just set them both to slave. The jumpers are there to override any bios defaults.

u sure? because on older comps without SATA, if you had both drives on one IDE channel and one was set to master and the other slave, you could potentially end up with a corrupted drive...

Read my above post.

Leave the IDE drives as master & slave.
Whether they are master/slave/whatever doesnt affect the SATA drive.

As was said, make sure you are set to boot from SCSI or SATA if that board has that option, instead of HDD-0 or 1, or whatever its set to right now.

 

[escapistnet]

Make sure your BIOS is up to date. Some boards were released last year with an SATA controller and controller BIOS, but the chipset BIOS was still lacking SATA boot features. I had this issue with my ASUS A7N8X-D. A simple BIOS flash gave me a couple new SATA menu options, included SCSI/SATA boot order.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: n7

Originally posted by: eightentity

Originally posted by: Paul Ma
it won't screw up anything. Just set them both to slave. The jumpers are there to override any bios defaults.

u sure? because on older comps without SATA, if you had both drives on one IDE channel and one was set to master and the other slave, you could potentially end up with a corrupted drive...

Read my above post.

Leave the IDE drives as master & slave.
Whether they are master/slave/whatever doesnt affect the SATA drive.

As was said, make sure you are set to boot from SCSI or SATA if that board has that option, instead of HDD-0 or 1, or whatever its set to right now.

This is correct.

 

[eightentity]

i have an MSI K8N Neo

there is no SATA or SCSI boot option =/

 

[JBT]

Look in another area of the BIOS with my NF3 250 all it says is "hard drive" for what to boot off of an in another section of the BIOS I can move my IDE and SATA drives around for boot order. I think it is in advanced chipset but I forget I will look when I get home.

All these guys so far area talking about how SATA was calle SCSI back with NF2 boards since then with my NF3 they fixed a few things.

IDE0master My 40 GB HDD
IDE0slave
IDE1master My CDRW
IDE1slave
IDE2master My SATA Raptor
IDE3master

The 2nd and 3rd IDE's are both my SATA connectors. the 0's and 1's are my PATA connectors.

So just look in the BIOS a bit and you will find it to change you HDD boot preference. If you can't I'll take a peek in my BIOS.

 

[eightentity]

please do, i still can't find it =/

 

[stevty2889]

Have you tried to press F11 during start up to see if you can select your SATA drive?

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: eightentity
please do, i still can't find it =/

For me I enter the BIOS, go to Advanced BIOS Features on the left 2nd one down, enter that.
Then the first option it Hard disk Boot Priority, enter this and choose which drive to boot from first then save and exit