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SATA master drive, took out IDE slave, won't boot.

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leonmac73

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Greetings, I'm back again. I would really apreciate help on this one. I am running a Seagate Barracuda drive SATA as master. I took my IDE WD120 out, and rewired my system so that I could tie up some wires and cables for appearence. Now it will not boot. When the Windows screen apears at first, it is dim for a few seconds (I had this problem before when I installed two additional hard drives). I tested my power supply with my tester and everything checks out ok. Takes kinda a long time on the Windows screen, then it just restarts. It restarts everytime. Please help. Thanks.
 
IS the windows now booting on the new sata or still on the IDE. Not clear if you took that hardrive out completely or if you took it out re wired it then put it back together
 
SATA drives don't have Master/Slave configs. Some motherboards will try to boot from the IDE drive when both (SATA an PATA/IDE) are installed.
 
That's right they don't have Master/Slave configs. I mean I wanted to use the SATA drive as master in theory (boot drive). I did take it all the way out, was going to use it in another system. I think I figured it out. When I installed the OS on the SATA drive, I had the WD120 connected. I think Windows put some files on that drive (a boot record of some sort). I will need to have my IDE drive connected in order to boot to the SATA. I had to erase my SATA drive and start over. Now, when I started over my IDE drive was connected, and once again, will not boot with out it connected. If I take my IDE out, no boot, if I put it back in, perfect boot. I'm not sure why it is doing this. Any ideas???
 
Install windows with only the sata drive. Then make sure that drive is the boot drive in the bios when you add the other one. You did install the drivers for the sata controller when installing windows.
 
yup if you have the WD as the master and the main boot diskj and you tell windows to install on the sata it will put the boot.ini and some other file son the WD and with out it it will fail. I did this before back in the days when i had 8 hd in my machine back in the day when 4 gigs were awsome! good old days.. anywas install with only sata and you wont get the issue, liek Viper mentioned.
 
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