Question default two hard drive set as master

[bittt]

I have two hard drive which connect through sata cable. when I connect just the main hard to motherboard(which is windows on it), pc boots properly but when i connect second hard, windows logo appears just a second and computer restart automatically. I check that both hard set as master and i tried to make the second hard as slave with jumper but it doesn't work. do you know how can i set the second hard as slave or is there any problem that should solve?

p.s: computer had worked properly till I disconnected main hard and connect floppy disk(to boot ms-dos) and one IDE hard drive. after I disconnected them and connect cables as usual this problem has been seen.

thanks

 

[Muadib]

Don't know what motherboard you have, but did you try to set the sata drives in the bios?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Confused.

OP mentions SATA, and then mentions "Master" and "Slave" settings. Those are ONLY for IDE HDDs, not for SATA, it has no concept of Master/Slave. (One HDD per port, unless you are doing something really advanced and using Port Multipliers.)

Then OP mentions IDE HDD, and floppy.

Is this some sort of transitional board, with SATA and IDE and Floppy ports on it. (Like my ASRock 990FX AM3+ board?)

If so, there may be some BIOS settings that you need to set. Some boards, allocate the SATA and IDE ports out of the same pool (Intel ICH7 boards are like this), and you get your choice of "all SATA" or "some SATA and some IDE", as set in the BIOS.

Also, Windows (when installed) likes to be set to EITHER "AHCI" or "IDE emulation" mode in BIOS for the SATA ports. IF you plug in a HDD and the Windows' OS on that HDD was installed with one or the other setting, then you must set the current BIOS setting for the SATA ports to match up, if you want to be able to boot.

Lastly, be aware of your BIOS "disk boot order", and by plugging in your secondary drive, make sure that your BIOS isn't trying to boot off of that one instead of your boot drive.

 

[Senju]

If you have 2 HDD that have windows boot info, they will both show up. You need to delete the windows bootup info from the disk you do not want to boot up on.