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booting two harddrives WITHOUT raid
Name: RoninNYC Date: September 11, 2006 at 16:35:43 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: 3000+
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im currently running an SATA drive. i have a bunch of files on a drive with no OS installed (just formatted) that i need to boot up and copy files over to the SATA drive. the new drive is IDE. whenever i try to boot it up my computer tries making it a raid. the IDE drive is in slave setting. when i boot it says the sata drive (although it is plugged into an sata port on the mobo)is on IDE 3, while ide 1 and 2 are standard IDE ports.
Name: zoddy Date: September 11, 2006 at 18:26:21 Pacific
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turn off the raid controller/settings in the bios. also, make sure the SATA drive is NOT plugged into the RAID SATA ports on the mobo.
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Response Number 2
Name: RoninNYC Date: September 11, 2006 at 19:57:18 Pacific
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did that, still didnt work. any other ideas? the IDE drive should be in Slave mode right?
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Response Number 3
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: September 11, 2006 at 22:49:54 Pacific
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Why would you need to boot from the IDE drive in order to copy files from it? Can't you just boot from the SATA drive and copy the files to it from the IDE drive? Or are you saying when both drives are connected the computer won't boot?
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Response Number 4
Name: RoninNYC Date: September 12, 2006 at 04:12:50 Pacific
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yeah with both drives connected it wont boot. the IDE drive doesnt even have an OS on it.
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Response Number 5
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: September 12, 2006 at 14:52:08 Pacific
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The master/slave jumper settings for the IDE drive are only to identify 2 different drives on the same cable and shouldn't interfere with the SATA drive. You'd probably want it jumpered as master. What is the IDE drive model number?
It sounds like a cmos/bios setup configuration problem or maybe a drive jumper problem.
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Response Number 6
Name: RoninNYC Date: September 13, 2006 at 03:51:54 Pacific
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what do you mean IDE drive model number? like it is a hitachi deskstar. on the back where the jumpers are there are all these different configuration types, "16 heads, 15 heads, 32gb clip, auto spin disable." im nto sure what those mean do you know?
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Response Number 7
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: September 13, 2006 at 16:37:45 Pacific
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Like a WD200 or Maxtor 4D040H2. It should be printed on top of the drive somewhere. I was just wondering if the bios was having a problem seeing it because it was too large. Or, with WD drives, you'd only jumper it master if there was another drive on the cable. As a single drive there'd be no jumper.
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