how to stop pc defaulting to boot from SATA?

skanky · 14 Apr 2007 at 17:53

i have a sata drive, a scsi drive and a pata drive in my fileserver.

in the bios i've set the scsi to have priority over the sata but when i boot it always goes for the sata and i get the ntldr missing error (well yeah, you're trying to boot from a data drive you dumb machine!).

if i unplug the sata drive, it boots off the scsi as expected. if i goto a boot menu and select the scsi (which is at the top), then it boots fine. as this is to be a fileserver, its not really an option to have to goto the boot menu every time.

how'd i change it so that the sata doesnt always try to take over the boot process?

skanky · 14 Apr 2007 at 18:32

its an abit an8 ultra.

the sata drive is connected via onboard sata ports, the scsi drive is hanging off a adaptec 29160n pci card.

skanky · 14 Apr 2007 at 18:50

interesting, unplugged the pata drives (2x hdd, 1x dvdrw), left the scsi/sata plugged in and it booted right off the scsi as i wanted!

skanky · 14 Apr 2007 at 18:57

plugged the pata back in (no other changes) and it works, boots off the scsi and other drives appear as they should.. W.. T.. F..!

damn computers!