I am attempting to install a 20 GB IDE hard drive into a Digital Celebris GL 6200. Windows NT 4.0 Workstation is currently installed on a 2.0 GB SCSI drive. Whenever I try to hook up the IDE drive, the machine refuses to boot from the SCSI drive. There is _NO_ option in the BIOS to boot to SCSI (only hard drive, floppy, CD-ROM). I have even tried installing the drive onto a PCI IDE adapter (instead of on-board) and switching the SCSI and IDE cards' PCI slots, both with no luck. I have considered cloning the SCSI to the IDE but I'm even having a hard time figuring out how to convert the IDE into NTFS! Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

It won't work unless your motherboard bios has both "scsi" and "HDD". I boot both scsi hard drives and IDE but my bios has four selections including "scsi" and "HDD-0". I use "Drive Image" to copy one hard drive to another with great results, but I've never been able to copy scsi to ide and have it bootable (mounting point error every time).

I am working on a compaq ml 330 server with scsi hdd. i connected a 20gb ide drive. had the same probs. tried all rubbish. finally i installed nt on the scsi without the ide. then i tried some jumper settings on the ide and then could boot with the scsi and it detected it as well. but as of now my cd-rom is gone ka-put. system does not detect the cd-rom.