Old SATA hard drive with jumpers?

Hi guys,

I have this old Samsung SATA hard drive (Windows XP) with jumper pins on it (default state: no jumpers connected) which is the only drive in an old computer. I'm trying to image everything onto a newer WD Caviar Black 1TB.

The drive is now connected to another computer with a WD Green (Windows 7) as primary and the new Caviar Black as secondary. The Green is on SATA1, Black on SATA3 and Samsung on SATA2. Connecting the Samsung and Black to SATA2 and SATA3 respectively makes the computer unable to boot into Windows (for reasons unknown).

In the current setup, after POST the computer insists on booting into Windows XP and not into Windows 7 even though the Green is on SATA1. If the Samsung and Black are connected individually I am able to enter Windows 7, but I need both connected together in order to move my stuff over.

Sorry for the long post, but basically the question now is what should I do to force the computer to boot into Windows 7, via jumper or otherwise?
This is a time-sensitive task so a quick reply would be much appreciated.

Cheerio,
Nicholas.

 

This is a typical problem many users face when mixing SATA and IDE drives. What you need to do is make sure your BIOS is set to boot up SCSI devices first instead of IDE. Look closely into your BIOS, you'll find it...

 

That worked perfectly, thanks alot!

Though now I have a slightly different problem, unfortunately. While transferring files, my Green was C:\, the Black was F:\ and the Samsung was G:\.

Now, the Black is still F:\ and refuses to boot. I have a hunch the drive letter has to be changed to C:\ to solve this, but have so far been unable to, be it using XP's boot disc's recovery console or Knoppix LiveCD and Gnome or Gparted. Gnome will not start (asks for a nonexistent administrator password) while Gparted does not detect the Black even though it is the only drive. How would I go about changing this drive letter?

Cheerio,
Nicholas.

 

np
So just to clarify, what drive do you want to copy? And to which drive?

 

hie.. drive letter is not at a issue.. My only primary partition is named as G: ..the POST process can direct control of OS to any ONE of the drives(that can be selected using bios ). Procedure is simple and same as u do for CD and HDD option... for OS listing option you should install all the OS in same drive and that too with correct order (like xp -->vista-->w7).