Using SATA and IDE Harddrives

[Buckwild]

I recently got a new computer, So I had to install My operating system again.

I prefer the SATA hard drive because it's faster.

All went well until I connected My storage IDE hard drive.

Then, The computer wouldn't boot. 

It turned out that I had to jumper the IDE hard drive as slave.

And, Of course set the OS hard drive to boot first in Bios.

I didn't have to using Windows XP. But, Using later OS, That's what You must do.

[ed_]

You have UEFI BIOS?

[Buckwild]

No, computer is 12 Years old with Intel motherboard

[DoubleDragon]

Some time ago that your referring to some hard drives included a 2 pin clip to change from Primary to Secondary there was no option before SATA.

 

If your issue comes back unplug the IDE device pull the battery out of the mother board then plug the SATA back up reboot the system or hit ctl+alt+del after it is booting, then turn the power off then reconnect the IDE device and reboot. This process is usually done by reading the DOS window during boot if your can't read it fast enough to catch driver info press Pause/Break to get more information about the boot sector.

 

Used this process once before when slave and master wouldn't switch even when clip was changed.

[jballou]

Most IDE drives have a "Cable Select" option, which lets the physical connection on the ribbon cable determine the master/slave setting. But buy a new drive, IDE is old as hell and I'd be wary about the drive dying on you.

[cookiem0nster]

Most IDE drives have a "Cable Select" option, which lets the physical connection on the ribbon cable determine the master/slave setting. But buy a new drive, IDE is old as hell and I'd be wary about the drive dying on you.

I was about to ask, did cable select not work?

 

I swear back when the transistion was happening to sata 150/300 from ide-133 i used both without issue, but I usually had my jumper on cable select. For a while I was too cheap to upgrade from an ide dvd-rw with lightscribe too

 

 

what are your system specs? My main gaming rig I built ~7 years ago. Cheap parts can make them work great but you might be too far back. Socket 775 would be a fine starting point circa 04-07. You could have a 4ghz quad core right now in that socket with the right stuff. Up to 16gb of ram. p35,p45,x38,x48 chipsets were the best. I updated to lga 1366 right around when it came available, running a 6-core xeon at 4.2ghz - keeps up pretty good with current gen. My workstation has an i7-8700k I should try a direct comparison...