I bought myself a new hard drive, thinking i could install it easily. it's an IDE hard drive. When I opened up my pc, however, i discovered that it has a SATA hard drive installed... I installed the new IDE anyway, and it is being recognised by windows as drive d... i have used Acronis True Image to clone the old SATA onto the new IDE, set the jumper on the IDE to master, but if i remove the old SATA, the pc wont boot up to the new IDE...
I wanted to replace the old drive with the new one, but the new one wont act as master, can anyone advise me what Ive missed?
Thank you
Tracy xx
2006-12-14 13:04:59 · 3 answers · asked by iamqueentracy 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
You may have to go into your BIOS and fiddle the SATA settings. If you don't mind removing the SATA drive, you can probably disable the SATA headers. I'd like to think there is something there to set the SATA drives as secondary. Check the boot order.
2006-12-14 13:12:04 · answer #1 · answered by Computer Guy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you start up your computer, the very first screen is called CMOS or BIOS and it's checking all the hardware components, verifies the RAM and it may also be identifying the hard drives connected to the system. This is prior to the Windows boot screen, mind you. You need to go into the BIOS settings to change the order in which the drives are scanned for a boot device. If you do not know how to do this and your computer is under warranty, call your computer's manufacturer for assistance. Various motherboards use different BIOS software so they're not all exactly the same. If your computer was custom built, you may have an owners manual for the motherboard. If not, you may be able to find instructions online that pertain to your particular BIOS.
Good luck!
2006-12-14 21:16:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, try setting your jumper to cable select instead (cs) Also if that doesn't work for you, go to your BIOS settings (by pressing DEL key at bootup, or F1 or F2 depending on your computer)
Check if the new HD is being recognized there, if so, then go to BOOTUP options in the BIOS and make sure that the new IDE drive is listed as one of the drives to boot from...
If problem persists, contact me!
2006-12-14 21:30:32 · answer #3 · answered by RHINOTECHIE 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋