sata with ide

bodmin636

bodmin636

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I have just rebuilt my pc using a sata hard drive. All my data is on an ide drive. I wish to transfer my data from this to my sata drive. My problem is this:

With just the sata drive connected it all works fine, but when I connect the ide drive it try's to boot from this rather than the sata drive.

I have set the boot sequence in the bios to boot from the sata, but it seem to ignore this and boots from the ide. Am I missing something somewhere?

Thanks in advance
 
so u have an os on the sata drive? and the ide drive?
u could try editing the boot sequence within windows itself, as long as u can c the sata drive as well

right click my computer / properties then the advanced tab
startup and recovery settings
see if there are two options in the drop down list (it may detect both os's), if it does then select the other one and reboot

i take it the ide os has a unique way of identifying it against the sata os?

this may get around the problem
 
Yes I have windows xp on both drives,the ide one from my previous setup, the sata one is a new one.
I cannot get into windows with both drives connected so I can't see the above would work.
 
Not fully clued up on SATA so I could be barking up the wrong shrub...

If you have two HDDs both with OS's that have been installed independently from one another, then I think both with be primary boot devices... PCs dont like having two of those as far as I understand it all.

SiriusB
 
I think i read somewhere that IDE always takes priority over sata and if you're lucky u'll have a setting/option on your motherboard that allows you to choose what drive you'd like to boot from... for example, if i press escape on my epox during post it displays a list of all the drives in my system, then i just choose the one i want to boot from, very handy!

The only other thing i can think of is is somehow deleting the boot record on the ide drive so it cant find an operating system?

So your ide drive wont load into windows at all? i recently put an old ide drive into my new build and it loaded up xp, automatically isntalled everything it needed and was fine, i guess u're not havin any such luck?
 
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In my bios I have the option to set the boot priority of the drives even when I set this to the sata drive it still trys to boot from the ide drive. When it trys to boot from the ide it comes up with an error message almost immediatly about a file missing (can't remember what , at work at the mo) however it worked fine when I took it out of my old system.
 
why dont u reinstall xp on the ide drive, it should then pick up both installations and let u select which u'd like to boot from.
 
Would reinstalling xp on the drive destroy my other data on it?
I might have to put it in another pc and copy the data onto dvd.
One other thought, once the data has been transferred I was going to format the ide drive and use it as a backup drive for my data. Will I run into the same start up problems or will this not occur as there is no operating system on it?
 
u'll be fine once its formatted for sure!

were your files all stored in a user account with password? coz it wont let u copy the data across if ** logged in from another installation of xp if they were, i had this problem a while back.

why dont u just try repairing the xp installation on the ide hd?
 
n3x said:
u'll be fine once its formatted for sure!
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Thats not entirly true!!!

Many mobo's will refuse to boot unless their is some boot/re-directing information on the IDE drive even if the SATA/SCSI drive is lock-n-loaded!!

When setting up a IDE + SATA/SCSI system it is always best to have both drives connected when installing on the SATA/SCSI. Because when Windows is installing it places boot information on the IDE drive telling it too look on the SATA/SCSI for the OS.

Placing a blank formatted IDE drive into a SATA/SCSI only system that has already had the OS installed will on many motherboards prevent it from booting as the re-directing information is not present on the IDE drive.
 
Would seem so :)

Let us know how it goes. Just please for the love of all that is holy make sure you have EVERYTHING backed up. Wouldn't want to see another thread entitled "I just lost my data.....!" ;)

SiriusB
 
I'm in the same boat here. I've got a an os on a new SATA drive that is is always connected and another os and lots of data on an older IDE drive.
For a couple of times i've got them to boot together not sure how but they booted. But now it only boots the ide drive and doesn't even see the SATA drives ( os 80gig and data 200 gig ) As soon as i unplug the IDE drive it boots up fine and works fine.
I've looked into the bios set up and everything looks fine i've set it to boot up to sata but it just won't have it when the IDE drive is plugged in! :mad:

I didn't have my ide connected when i installed my SATA drive up either but to be honest i never have any drives connected other than my system drive when i do a format.

I have no idea how to solve this.??? :confused:

Oh i have an ABIT KV8-MAX3 raid motherboard.
 
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