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Drive Set up question

Aldraxis

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Oct 18, 2004
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I see several questions like this, but I'm not sure if any of them is exactly the same.

Setup:
ASUS A8V MoBo
2 SATA HD's
1 DVD-RW
1 DVD-ROM Combo

Can I put the two DVD's on the Secondary IDE and leave the Primary IDE blank?
Was planning on putting the DVD-RW as Master on the secondary, and the DVD-ROM as Slave on the secondary. With the two SATA HD's on the two SATA connectors.

Should I be anticipating any boot confusion as to which drive it should be booting from?

It's been forever since I put together a computer. And I've never dealt with the SATA drives before.
Any help, suggestions, or information would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

helpmeout

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Once you set hard drive as your first boot device in BIOS, you will be able to select which of the drives you want the system to boot from.