IDE/SATA drive mix can't set boot drive

  I have a seagate 120GB IDE drive and a WD 250GB SATA drive.  I want to
boot from the SATA drive, but the system keeps trying to boot from the
IDE drive.

Looking at the BIOS, it says the SATA drive is "IDE 4" (but it is
plugged into the SATA 1 connection) and the IDE drive is "IDE 0".  The
BIOS won't let me switch the boot priority on the hard drives.

How do I get my system to boot from the SATA drive?

I need the IDE drive in the system as it has data that I need to
transfer to the SATA drive (the IDE drive is going bad and I need to
get the data off of it before it completely dies).

Thanks

 
The SATA drive should really show up in the BIOS as a DATA drive! What does
the BIOS say and what does the system do if you remove the cables from the
IDE drive?

  If you re-configure the IDE to a slave position on the IDE cable might do it
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 edlance@gmail.com wrote:

Some early SATA BIOSs played silly games trying to make those
new-fangled SATA drives look like regular IDE drives. You may be able to
turn off this emulation if this is the case on your MB. IIRC some BIOSs
made the SATA drives look as if they were SCSI drives also. Does the
boot priority show any other sort of hard drive devices?

It would really be useful if you told everyone what sort of MB you are
dealing with and what the BIOS version is since it is possible that
someone else has already seen and defeated the problem.

--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com

 
It wasn't a silly game..



I didn't when I had it.  You just tell it which is "primary
controller". And it orders them occordingly. 1,2(for the primary)
3,4 for the secondary.

With the BIOSs that don't do that 'game' i'm not sure how you cna
change the ordering.. if it's possible??  The BIOS I have in mind that
didn't play the game, was on a Dell..  I didn't see a way to reorder
the drives so they were numbered differently.  But I could see how
they'd be numbered by looking at the order they were listed in the
BIOS.. It just wasn't possible as far as I could see, to change that
order.

The order is relevant if you're using Norton Ghost 'cos it just refers
to drive 1,2,3,4 e.t.c. and you have to know which drive is which!!  I
found the BIOS referred to SATA0,SATA1,IDE0,IDE1 in that order, and so
norton used 1,2,3,4 in that order.

But it was nice that the BIOSs that played what you call a game, let
you change the ordering. Maybe it was possible i nthe ones that don't
play a game..

how is ordering changed on MBRDs that don't play a game?
If it's not possible, then the only way he can change the number
assigned to a drive, is to put it on a different port.
Nevertheless, changing the numbering like that is irrelevant anyway!
I don't see a necessity to make IDE 1,2 and SATA 3,4.  But still,
having the ability to do that is good.




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