[BM]Crusher Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 This is not necessarily true. Depending on the motherboard maker, you can choose which drive is the first drive. This adjusts the mappings.yeah like I said:In your BIOS it will have a Hard Drive Boot Priority settings... make sure that "External Device" or "Onboard/Onchip SATA" is the first choice before your IDE driveI think on the ABIT NF7-S v2.0 it is called "Onboard Device" for the SATA controller... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WadeV1589 Posted June 18, 2004 Author Share Posted June 18, 2004 It doesn't seem to allow you to choose which is the first device...or the first device Windows XP setup see's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 just unplug the ide cable from the hdd after all it takes a split second for xp to install the new hdd.. in xp..Isn't that what I said? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 well sort of u said remove it I specified what to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachy Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 I don't have experience with Abit boards but mainly with ASUS and Intel. In the AMI BIOS of these boards with the Intel ICH4/5/5R, the SATA controllers are listed as IDE 3 and 4. If you have both PATA and SATA drivers connected, you need to go and change the Boot Drive Priority. By default the PATA drives are listed first. But if you highlight the first boot device and hit the enter key, you will see all the bootable drives listed. Then you just select the drive you want booted first, PATA or SATA, master or secondary. If the SATA controller is not native to the chipset, then it will be designated as a SCSI drive and you have to choose to boot from SCSI as the first device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted June 18, 2004 Share Posted June 18, 2004 well sort of u said remove it I specified what to do OK, OK ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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