DUAL BOOT WITH SATA & IDE

[VIOLATER]

HELLO ALL,

I AM WONDERING IF IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE A SATA HDD & AN ATA (IDE) DRIVE BOTH CONNECTED & HAVE A DUAL BOOT CONFIGURATION?

I HAVE WINXP PRO ON THE SATA & I WANT TO PUT WINDOWS 2000 PRO ON THE IDE. THE IDE HDD JUMPER IS SET ON CABLE SELECT & SHOWS AS THE MASTER UNDER THE PATA IN THE BIOS. IF I PUT THE IDE HDD JUMPER AS MASTER THE SYSTEM FREEZES @ THE INTEL SPLASH SCREEN IN THE BOOT PROCESS.

SO I LEFT THE IDE HDD AS CABLE SELECT.. I BOOED FROM THE WINDOWS 2000 PRO DISK. AFTER IT DID IT'S THING RECOGNIZING & ANALYZING THE HARDWARE & SYSTEM IT ASKS WHICH HDD I WANT TO INSTALL WIN 2000 PRO. I SELECT THE IDE HDD IT THEN SAYS IT NEEDS TO FORMAT THE IDE HDD BECAUSE IT IS UNFORMATED OR DAMAGED. THAT'S FINE. I SAY GO AHEAD & FORMAT THE IDE HDD. IT WAS NAMING MY "C" DRIVE( PRIMARY HDD) AS "D" & THE IDE HDD AS "C". OK I CAN LIVE WITH THAT. THEN @ THE NEXT SCREEN IT IS SAYING THAT DRIVE "D" IS LARGER THAN 2048 MB & WOULD FORMAT WITH THE FAT32 FILE SYSTEM. SO I SAY CONTINUE. IT WANTED TO START FORMATING MY SATA DRIVE. NOT THE IDE HDD I SELECTED. SO I HAD TO MANUALLY SHUTOFF THE COMPUTER BEFORE IS MESSED UP WINXP PRO.

CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY IT IS DOING THIS?? OR IS IT BECAUSE THE SATA DRIVE KIND OF TAKES PRIORITY OVER ANY IDE DRIVES?? I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY ASSISTANCE ON THIS.

P.S. I DID RUN A DUAL BOOT ON 2 DIFFERENT HDD'S BEFORE BUT THEY WERE BOTH IDE (PRIMARY & SECONDARY)..

 

[1sikbITCH]

1. PLEASE TURN OFF THE CAPSLOCK.

2. Unplug the SATA drive, install W2K on the IDE as if it was the only harddrive, and after it's all said and done, plug the SATA back in.

Then you should have 2 options to boot from on startup.

 

[VIOLATER]

OK thanks a bunch!!! I was wondering if that would work. Sorry about the caps.