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Help Running SATA and IDE Hard Drives at the Same Time

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BlameTheBigBang

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I just recently got a new rig, and now I want to copy some files off of my old IDE HDD onto my new SATA HDD. I've hooked up the IDE and tried jumpering it as "neutral position" "single position" "dual master" and "dual slave" but none of these settings has worked. In "neutral position", "single position", and "dual slave" my new PC booted from the IDE HDD and started trying to load a million drivers. I know this is not what I want to happen. When in "dual master" position, the IDE HDD wasn't recognized at all and my new PC booted from the SATA drive as normal. I also know that this is not what I want. Can anyone help me out here? I really need to get some files off of the IDE HDD and so far I've been totally unsuccessful. Please help!

 
BTBB.

What MB do you have? I installed an ASUS p4c800 deluxe over the weekend and have 2 HDD installed (one SATA and one IDE). What I did notice on this MB is that the default setting is to boot from the IDE disk if you have one.
So when connecting both (I believe my IDE disk is jumpered as master) you need to go into your BIOS to ensure booting from your SATA disk.

After this is works fine....

Hope this is of some help
 
There's no option in my BIOS (Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro mobo) to set the SATA drive as the boot drive. I guess this will be the last time I buy a Gigabyte board. No one else seems to be having this problem.
 
I had some similar problems with my 8knxp, installing the latest beta bios for the board fixed it.

When you go into the bios, there should be an option to make a SCSI device the primary boot device. Serial drives are treated as SCSI, so when you set the SCSI device to boot first, it will boot your serial drive. Also, if you have multiple SCSI devices, make sure you specify which SCSI device to boot first.
 
Originally posted by: tagej
I had some similar problems with my 8knxp, installing the latest beta bios for the board fixed it.

When you go into the bios, there should be an option to make a SCSI device the primary boot device. Serial drives are treated as SCSI, so when you set the SCSI device to boot first, it will boot your serial drive. Also, if you have multiple SCSI devices, make sure you specify which SCSI device to boot first.
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I tried that. It still boots from the IDE drive.
 
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