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Last Question of The Night :P

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jrphoenix

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My new system is DONE 😛 😀 😉 :thumbsup: It is really an awesome system (it will be even more awesome in 90 days when I do my EVGA step up!) It feels so good to be done with my first build. Tomorrow I will try to do at least one bechmark and play some far cry (been waiting a while).


My question. I have a SATA drive as my only drive in my new system. Tomrrow I want to temporarily hookup my old IDE drive from my old system (rebuilding it in the future) so that I can transfer some data over.

Will there be any problems with just setting it to "slave" and will I be able to access all of the folder on that drive? Any issues I need to be aware of?

Thank you in advance!
 
As long as your SATA drive is set to master, & the old drive to slave, you should have zero problems 🙂
 
I know that on my A7N8X board, the BIOS gives priority to the SATA for booting purposes, so if it sees a boot sector on the SATA drive it'll boot fine. Leave the settings for your IDE drive set to master. It'll be the master drive on whatever IDE channel it's in.

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err, unless you have a CD drive plugged in as master on that channel, then you'll wanna make the IDE hard drive the slave on that channel.

So like, just set up your IDE drives like you always have, and I think your system will boot to the SATA no matter what you do, even if you're plugging in an IDE drive with an OS on it to Master 0.

You pretty much can't screw this up.
 
Originally posted by: Polishwonder74
I know that on my A7N8X board, the BIOS gives priority to the SATA for booting purposes, so if it sees a boot sector on the SATA drive it'll boot fine. Leave the settings for your IDE drive set to master. It'll be the master drive on whatever IDE channel it's in.

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Ack, i forgot that they are separate channels.


If there is a Windows install on the IDE drive you are hooking up, leaving the IDE drive as master may cause your system to try to boot from it rather than the SATA; depends on your bios i guess.
 
Thanks for the info guys. I hooked up the drive and transferred all of my data without any problems! Now I can kick back, relax and enjoy the new comptuer! It's awesome!
 
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