I have a PC with -
Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard (with Via chipset)
Athlon 4000+ processor
XFX Geforce 6800GT
1Gb Ram
400Gb Sata HD (booting from)
I’m thinking of moving my 4 EIDE HDs from my other PC over to it but if I connect an EIDE HD it won’t boot off the SATA for some reason (like it takes priority).
Anyone know how to fix this?
Regards,
manic49er
you need to enter the BIOS & change the boot priority because most/all motherboards will automatically boot from the IDE device that is set to master on the primary IDE channel
BTW: is this your mobo
Nope, that’s not my MOBO, the closest seems to be the A8V as it has the right # of PCI slots and orientations, …
And yes, I went into Bios to set priority but once you plug in an IDE HD it takes priority away from Sata HD in Boot Drive list whether you put it’s jumper on slave and mount on middle slave connector on HD cable or not. System will try to boot from it whether has boot data on it or not, just fails if not and fails if has bad boot data (as my current one does).
I finally found that further down in my Bios Boot page is a Hard Drives tab and there you can make the “1st Drive” the SATA HD and will now boot from it no matter whatever else is attached! Only thing you have to watch out for is if you remove the IDE HD to put in old PC to “repair” from Windows Recovery Console ( or whatever) and then put it back in this new pc it the IDE drive will regrab 1st HD position and try to boot from IDE HD again if you’ve rebooted this new pc w/o the IDE HD just once as the BIOS will have removed the Hard Drives tab and it’s SATA HD 1st Drive setting when sees only one HD! So can’t multitask on both PCs trying things.
So I’m now currently dl’ing the 60 Gb of Data (mainly MP3’s I ripped from my CD collection to put on my MP3 player 1Gb at a time ;+) (and my Shortcuts and bookmarks and addressbook) off the bad HD (actually HD is OK unlike prev one that failed physically, this one failed software wise somewhere in XP’s boot process “on” HD so is seen by system as a slave no prob once get past the booting issue unlike the low level dos extraction I had to do with the physically bad HD so is not a convenient backup medium;+). So once that is done at last I’ll have a backup so I can feel a little easier trying to repair mbr with Windows Recovery Console as thos large warnings about possibly losing partitions and data on HD when trying to fix mbr made me leery about losing years of ripping CDs to MP3s and of customizing shortcuts to run retro legacy games meant to run on much slower, older pcs.
Crossing my fingers,
manic49er