This question is for those who know and use SATA and/or IDE. My new motherboard supports SATA and i have a SATA harddrive. It will only boot from that drive if no IDE harddrives are connected. Is this the way the SATA is supposed to work?
As of right now, i have my SATA with W2K loaded and it works. I also have an IDE with W2k and it works. However, if both are attached to the motherboard, regardless of boot order, neither will boot and i get errors following POST and DMI Update. Depending on which drive i boot to i may get: No operation system found NON SYSTEM DISK. REPLACE AND STRIKE ANY KEY General Protection Fault blah blah blah hex hex hex blah blah blah
So does anyone know if SATA and IDE can coexist on a motherboard?
My current computer has dual SATA drives (set up in a RAID-1, not that it matters), and runs Win2k.
A couple of weeks ago, I took the hard drive (IDE) out of Girlfriend’s Parents’ computer, intending to save what I could before doing a complete reinstall (they’re running WinME, blech).
After attaching the soon-to-be-wiped drive to my motherboard, I had one hell of a time getting my machine to boot off of the SATA drives. It kept trying to boot off the IDE drive for some reason.
Unfortunately, I don’t remember exactly how I finally solved the problem. Something to do with the boot order in my BIOS settings, IIRC.
Which drive do you want to boot off of? After you’ve made that decision (I’d probably go with the SATA drive, but YMMV), get the computer running with only that drive attached. Then reformat/erase all traces of OS from the other drive.
If I remember anything more I’ll be back. Hope this helps.
I don’t have SATA and IDE running together, but I do tech support.
What type of motherboard are you using? On some motherboards there is a diffrent setting in the boot order for the hard drives, seprate from the main boot order (Floppy, CDROM, Hard Drive). You might have to set up which hard drive is the one the computer should boot from.
It’s an AOpen AK77-600 Max. When i first got it i couldn’t even load the W2k setup without it crashing and i had to flash the BIOS. Regarding boot order in the BIOS, i can’t set hdd0, hdd1, etc. I’m forced to go with A: FLOPPY SCSI CDROM C: D: E: F: USB DRIVE. And it doesn’t matter that combination of boot order i pick, and it doesn’t matter whether i use an IDE with an OS or not (as 1 of them only has programs and documents and stuff). The jumpers on the hard drives are set to cable select because that is the sort of cable i use.
I don’t know if this has anything to do with it, but there are 4 SATA ports on the mb itself. 2 are Promise controlled, and the 2 are VIA controlled. W2k wouldn’t recognize the Promise controller even though i used the 3rd party drivers during setup. Does it have anything to do that i have the SATA connected to SATA3 (VIA controller)?