Bought SATA-driver, how do I get info of my old IDE?

[hovenas]

So, just got myself a new drive, Hitachi 160 GB SATA II and that felt like a huge step up from my old IBM-Deskstar at 40 GB

The reason I changed can be read in this thread:
Problem-thread

I notice the same as I try to connect my IDE to IDE-port 2 on the MB.
It hangs, sending me to black screen with blinking marker and then I have to jumper-clean the CMOS and generally go thru a whole set of trouble before WinXP is up and running again.

What am I doing wrong? Is there a problem in having both a SATA- and an IDE-harddisk?

How should I connect/set it up?

 

[Jeff7181]

Sounds like it could be a problem with the boot order as set in the BIOS. Set it to boot from the Floppy first, then CD-ROM drive, the the hard disk and then you should be able to boot from the CD and install Windows on the new drive. I'm not sure how the K8N SLI Platinum does it, but one of my old motherboards needed to have "search for other boot device" enabled in order to boot from a SATA hard drive. So you might try that too.

 

[hovenas]

Oh sorry, I assumed you would read the linked thread first.
I'll run it by you:

-I did install Windows on the SATA driver after having disconnected the IDE ones
-Problem is... I have about a thousand photos of my dear family on one of the 2 IDE-drives and I want to copy it over to the SATA one.

-How should I connect it?
-Any BIOS-settings I must mind?

Grateful for insights

 

[jondercik]

It really matters how your motherboard recognizes the SATA drive. Some motherboards assign SATA drives to one of the IDE channels. Check the BIOS to make sure there arent any conflicts between the drives and that they all show up.

 

[hovenas]

True, the BIOS doesnt recognise the IDE drive, and when I try to update the channel it is on, the whole BIOS freezes and locks up.

What settings should be?

 

[helpmeout]

If you don't get it fixed here, the Asus BIOS forum should have an answer:

http://www.techsupportforum.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=87