Various Topics on HDD

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Hi,
I am having a problem setting up my system with an IDE hard drive. I
bought the system
used with a SATA drive as the main disk drive. I had added an IDE drive and
things
were working fine, with the IDE drive working as the E drive. I have data
on that drive
from a previous system. For some reason a problem developed and a friend
tried to fix things. Now, the only way to fix things was to remove that IDE
drive.
Having gotten things back to working right, I tried to put that IDE drive
back in.
Unfortunately, that drive insists on being the boot drive. This wasn't
happening previously.
I get a message saying I should check things out in the CMOS BIOS. I
don't
see any settings that distinguish between the SATA hard drive and the IDE
hard drive. Boot-up options include Hard drive, floppy, CDROM, etc.
What should I look for? Any suggestions, help?
Thanks so much,
Bruce

.. ..mpute..

> I am having a problem setting up my system with an IDE hard drive. I
> bought the system > used with a SATA drive as the main disk drive. I had
> added an IDE drive and things > were working fine, with the IDE drive
> working as the E drive. I have data on that drive > from a previous
> system. For some reason a problem developed and a friend
> tried to fix things. Now, the only way to fix things was to remove that
> IDE drive. > Having gotten things back to working right, I tried to put
> that IDE drive back in.> Unfortunately, that drive insists on being the
> boot drive. This wasn't happening previously.> I get a message saying I
> should check things out in the CMOS BIOS. I don't > see any settings that
> distinguish between the SATA hard drive and the IDE
> hard drive. Boot-up options include Hard drive, floppy, CDROM, etc.
> What should I look for? Any suggestions, help?

There should be a submenu for hard drives which lets you change the hard
drive order.


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I find when I do a fresh install, I have to remove the IDE ribbin or power
so the IDE doesn't register in bios. Otherwise the bios will always pick the
IDE drive instead of my IDE drive. Once everything is loaded I plug it all
in again and no problems

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VanShania <rvans@mts.net> wrote:

> I find when I do a fresh install, I have to remove the IDE ribbin or power so the IDE doesn't
> register in bios. Otherwise the bios will always pick the IDE drive instead of my IDE drive.

The bios is irrelevant to where the OS installs.

> Once everything is loaded I plug it all in again and no problems

..kotab..

Just in this group for very first time in newsgroups in long time....hehe
(since like ancient win98 adolescent "wanna-be-hackers"
days....hehe...).........

Spend most of my days (more like nights because of local shops demanding
overnight recoveries) sitting in a very dark cave full of microscopes, lit
up PC's and monitors, with large-screen TV on dig/ cable rambling away in
far corner 24/7, doing Autopsies, forensics, analysis, data recovery and
evidence research on very badly and intentionally damaged and "destroyed"
storage media (HDDs,Tape Carts, Broken DVDs/CDs, flashcards, etc).......

Would be interested to know models/brand of HDD's, and order in which
they're setup )Master vs. Slave, SCSI/IDE partners or co-drives, RAID
stacks, and ESPECIALLY exact jumper settings of each...

Your problem atleast "sounds" to be very simple.....would "seem to" be about
2 minutes effort "IF" you were in NE FL.

But my readings show you being somewhere in North Carolina. looks like Road
Runner, and appears to locate you "Near" Raleigh's out er suburbs of outer
regions, without actually "tracing" as such...LOL....(haven.gotten near
"that" bored as yet, so we'll leave it at a really bad twelve-sec second
wild guess...hehe....


Of course Murphy's law says I'm way too late in asking and being dated from
April, you've more likely long since resolved any and all problems by
now....
"Bruce Whealton" <brucewhealton@nc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:M1Kah.54492$39.20254@southeast.rr.com...
> Hi,
> I am having a problem setting up my system with an IDE hard drive. I
> bought the system
> used with a SATA drive as the main disk drive. I had added an IDE drive
> and things
> were working fine, with the IDE drive working as the E drive. I have data
> on that drive
> from a previous system. For some reason a problem developed and a friend
> tried to fix things. Now, the only way to fix things was to remove that
> IDE drive.
> Having gotten things back to working right, I tried to put that IDE drive
> back in.
> Unfortunately, that drive insists on being the boot drive. This wasn't
> happening previously.
> I get a message saying I should check things out in the CMOS BIOS. I
> don't
> see any settings that distinguish between the SATA hard drive and the IDE
> hard drive. Boot-up options include Hard drive, floppy, CDROM, etc.
> What should I look for? Any suggestions, help?
> Thanks so much,
> Bruce
>