Boot from CDROM

Danger Phoenix · 19 Sep 2007 at 00:14

I replaced my IDE drives with a SATA drive two weeks ago, and I just noticed that my PC refuses to boot from it.

I had an issue with my OS today, and had to plug in an IDE drive to make it work :eek:

What are the first things I should check? I have already looked in the BIOS and the only difference with the optical drive compared to my hard disks is that it is on a different SATA controller...

Ascendancy · 19 Sep 2007 at 00:34

IIRC SATA CDROM drives and IDE CDROM drives appear as different options in the BIOS boot preference options. Have you made sure you're actually telling the BIOS to boot from the SATA drive first?

Danger Phoenix · 19 Sep 2007 at 12:35

Ascendancy said:
IIRC SATA CDROM drives and IDE CDROM drives appear as different options in the BIOS boot preference options. Have you made sure you're actually telling the BIOS to boot from the SATA drive first?

Lol, I feel really stupid now!

Cheers for the help

Ascendancy · 19 Sep 2007 at 18:05

Anytime