sata with ide

bodmin636

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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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