Sata HD

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I have installed this sata hard drive on my new pc…(SATA Master)

But it recognizes it as drive D for some reason..it doesnt wanna boot of it.

Then i have another IDE drive that i have installed along with it as slave…but the SLAVE is being picked up as C: drive and Sata as D:

wtf is going on :confused:

Do sata drives require drivers to be installed for them to boot up? Or am i doing something wrong with the wires?

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Re: Sata HD

You have go into Motherboard BIOS, and change the "Boot Sequence" there.
That should be different for everymotherboard depending on the make/model/type of your Motherboard?

Also can you start the Windows Setup and it does not recognise the SATA drive? Then in that case you do need a floppy with SATA device drivers and press F6 right after the setup installs, then setup asks you for the floppy, insert the floppy and it will load the SATA drivers.

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Re: Sata HD

Well,

goto BIOS setup and disable the IDE and then boot. It will boot from the SATA and if you have XP or NT then you will have the IDE over there along with your SATA.

lme know if it works...

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Re: Sata HD

thanks guys...let me try that

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Re: Sata HD

SATA and IDE use different controllers. A slave on IDE and a master on SATA does not mean anything to each other. As someone pointed out already, choose the correct boot sequence in BIOS. Also a SATA drive can only be made bootable by installing a fresh OS on it with the correct drivers.

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Re: Sata HD

Just a little more Imfo there are now two kinds of sata

Sata I and Sata II in some motherboards like I am having there is even option to set the matching driver for the device in BIOS.

Just also take care of it. Rest is explained above.