Getting My Computer to Work

[aberdeen5]

I need help on getting my SATA 2 and IDE drives working. I want to use my IDE as a backup and my sata as the primary drive. I have the IDE drive set as a slave and my sata in the first sata2 slot. In the bios my SATA shows up as the third primary and my IDE is the second slave. I disconnected my IDE drive so my comp would work and am installing windows right now. How am I going to get this to work?

 

[ghendricks]

Here's my advice. Try removing the IDE drive completely, and leave the SATA drive inside. Install Windows on the SATA, then add the IDE drive after Windows is installed. Let me know how it goes.

 

[doinmybestatlast]

In Bios you will need to enable SATA. You will then need to change the SATA drive as the first hard drive in your boot sequence. There is no need to uninstall any IDE devices.

 

[AmberClad]

Like the other posters have said, make sure the SATA is before the IDE in the BIOS boot menu. Also, for some reason, when I was doing this, my BIOS really didn't like it when the IDE drive was jumpered to slave. I had to set the jumpers to master even though it wasn't the boot drive for it to be detected by the BIOS. I have a DVD drive on the same IDE channel, so that may or may not have something to do with it.

 

[Bozono]

Originally posted by: ghendricks
Here's my advice. Try removing the IDE drive completely, and leave the SATA drive inside. Install Windows on the SATA, then add the IDE drive after Windows is installed. Let me know how it goes.

This is how I set up my SATAII and IDE drives the other day. Don't worry about the jumpers. It's often best and easiest to leave them on Computer Select these days.

 

[aberdeen5]

When its just the sata drive it works fine but with the ide (and just the ide by itself) I get blue screen saying that my bios aren't ASCI(sp?) compliant. I don't know what that means..I have an MSI neo4-platinum. Do you think my problems could be solved by a bios update?

 

[mechBgon]

If you post what motherboard you've got, that may help. To give an example, my K8N-E Deluxe has a two-stage boot-selection menu under BOOT in the BIOS. I can specify the category order that I want, such as Floppy -> Optical -> HDD, and then in a second menu, I choose which of my three HDDs I meant when I specified the HDD as a boot device in the previous menu.

I just went through this myself after changing some SCSI settings. The mobo will always default to trying to boot from PATA after any changes are made, so then I have to go back into the BIOS and pound it into the K8N-E's brain that when I say HDD, I mean the Cheetah 15k.3 on SCSI bus 1 at ID0, not that poser ATA drive that it keeps trying to reinstate as the boot drive

 

[mechBgon]

I have an MSI neo4-platinum.

Ok, go into Advanced BIOS Features and then into the Hard Disk Boot Priority sub-menu, and specify that you want your SATA drive to be the boss.

 

[aberdeen5]

Thanks everyone, its working now

:beer: <---I could only afford one so you guys gotta share!