Serial ATA hard drive installation... Help!

[deevergote]

Gonna give that a shot now... I'll be back with either good news or more questions!

[ACCLUDE91]

you're full of PC questions today! Hope you get it all straight

[deevergote]

No dice. I don't have an option for SATA in my boot menu. I hooked up the EIDE drive as a master again, and it attempted to boot up... and failed during Windows setup yet again.

Maybe I'll just grab a USB conversion thingy for it I always wanted to convert an internal drive to an external. I think they're like $30.

[Accord R33]

No dice. I don't have an option for SATA in my boot menu. I hooked up the EIDE drive as a master again, and it attempted to boot up... and failed during Windows setup yet again.

Maybe I'll just grab a USB conversion thingy for it I always wanted to convert an internal drive to an external. I think they're like $30.

if your IDE drive has any traces of an OS on it, you wont be able to boot off the SATA drive. it will automaticly default to the IDE drive. im not really sure how to get around that off the top of my head...short of formating the IDE drive of course. but i think that defeats the whole purpose of you trying this..

[deevergote]

Exactly... if I can get all my goodies off of the IDE drive, I'll be happy. I just want my AIM conversations, emails, roms, pictures, music, a few important documents, and anime... the rest is trash.

[blackice]

What motherboard model do you have? I'm sure theres gotta be some way to boot from the SATA drive. Let me know and I'll find out.

[deevergote]

It's a Biostar M7NCD Ultra with a VIA chipset

[blackice]

From what the bios manual says it looks like you can go to the advanced bios menu, then under boot sequence and floppy setup. From there there should be several choices of what to boot from, hdd-0, cdrom, etc. Try setting the scsi drive first or one of the other hdd drives. Don't ask me why but some motherboards call sata drives scsi.