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Help On Installing Sata Drive, So lost... |
 Feb 25 2005, 01:12 PM
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Hey guys,
I just bought a 36GB WD Raptor drive and can't get it to boot as the primary drive. I have a DFI Lanparty 875b. rev. B, with 2 other IDE 160GB & 300GB HDs, and 2 optical drives. When ever I boot it reads the Raptor in the no. 2 channel or something like that; my IDE drives as 0 channel and the 2 optical drives as 1 channel. And also in the boot priority menu I had the Raptor as the first to boot, but it wont be the primary drive. Please help. Thanks. |
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Feb 25 2005, 01:30 PM
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 All that we know is nothing can be known. - Socrates Posts: 1,500 Joined: 28-October 04 From: Hamilton, ON Member No.: 13,228 |
sorry gotta ask :
did you check bios to maker sure it was the first to be check while booting? -------------------- OCC Rules || OC Basics || OC Software  | Intel E8400 | Gigabyte P35-D3SR | 4GB of G.Skill PQ 8000 RAM | | HD3750 512MB Toxic Edition | OCZ 600W GameXStream | |
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Feb 25 2005, 01:31 PM
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Member Posts: 217 Joined: 5-September 04 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 12,128 |
Ah... yeah
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Feb 25 2005, 01:48 PM
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 forgotten but not gone  Posts: 5,947 Joined: 22-January 04 Member No.: 7,972 |
I usually use the caveman solution: unplug power to IDE drives, install Windows to SATA, plug IDE drives back in. I've been told you can just disable the IDE channel during Windows install and it does the same thing.
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Feb 25 2005, 02:10 PM
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Member Posts: 217 Joined: 5-September 04 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 12,128 |
Well that sounds good and all, but what happens after I installed windowsxp, shutdown, plug back IDE drives, and it still boots to my original IDE drive?
I dont think I can live with just this Raptor and my optical drives only or Raptor with my 2 IDE drives only. btw, it does boot to the Raptor if I disconnect my Harddrives. EDIT Addon: Wait... Is the reason why my original 160GB is booting up is because it still has a WinXP OS on it? So if I delete that partition, it will have to pick up the Raptor? Thanks again for all your replys. Problem solved: So I was correct in thinking that my IDE pre-installed WinXP was what kept my Raptor from not loading first. I backedup what I needed and deleted that partition and everything is all gravy. This post has been edited by Freeder: Feb 25 2005, 06:02 PM |
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Feb 27 2005, 07:20 AM
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 Member Posts: 261 Joined: 8-December 04 From: B-AH-STON Member No.: 14,036 |
QUOTE(Freeder @ Feb 25 2005, 05:10 PM) Well that sounds good and all, but what happens after I installed windowsxp, shutdown, plug back IDE drives, and it still boots to my original IDE drive? I dont think I can live with just this Raptor and my optical drives only or Raptor with my 2 IDE drives only. btw, it does boot to the Raptor if I disconnect my Harddrives. EDIT Addon: Wait... Is the reason why my original 160GB is booting up is because it still has a WinXP OS on it? So if I delete that partition, it will have to pick up the Raptor? Thanks again for all your replys. Problem solved: So I was correct in thinking that my IDE pre-installed WinXP was what kept my Raptor from not loading first. I backedup what I needed and deleted that partition and everything is all gravy. [right][snapback]427972[/snapback][/right] Just FYI in the future - modify your boot.ini to look at the channel your Raptor was installed on first (you change change the IDE channel manually in notepad)... -------------------- |
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