SATA/IDE Boot Drive Issues

Published on November 10, 2006 By Xythe In Hard Drives

Heres the rundown:

I'm working on a PC where a SATA drive is the boot drive Windows C:

The client wants to add an IDE drive from another computer. Unfortunately, the drive we want to slave has a windows boot partition on it, and of course when I connected the IDE drive to his PC, it boots from the IDE drive rather than the SATA disk.

I'm thinking to use Knoppix Live CD to dump the Windows "C" drive off the IDE drive, (we want some of the data off the drive). I don't really want to do this.

Can I change the drive letter of the IDE drive? Will this prevent the PC from booting from the IDE drive rather than from the SATA disk?

Comments (Page 2)

Aaron L Roberts

on Dec 03, 2006

if u gt an ASUS board then play around with the boot settings or clear the CMOS if its an ABIT motherboard then its easier cuz i work with them alot its under hard disk boot priority and its classed as a bootable addin card for somereason but thats what i do!!! and i have both a sata and a IDE and im doing okay:D

Aaron L Roberts

on Dec 03, 2006

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