I just bought a brand new compaq presario PC. it has a sata master hard drive on it , i wanted to use my old sata drive as the slave , i plugged it into the secondary ata chanel on the motherboard. i booted it up , in the bios it shows that it is a secondary drive , senses it great and everything , but then it loads windows and it crashes to black , it will not load windows at all with the secondary drive plugged in , once i unplug the secondary drive windows starts up fine , please help me , i reallly reallly need the data on this secondary drive. like really bad.
2007-04-23 07:21:02 · 2 answers · asked by Michael P 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Check the boot sequence, your PC might be trying to boot on the OS of the old drive when it is connected.
2007-04-23 20:17:45 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SATA motherboard ports are accessed via a various chipset than the IDE ports. you ought to confirm what motherboard you have, then what chipset controls the SATA ports. bypass to the chipset producer's cyber web internet site and acquire the drivers and installation them and domicile windows ought to be waiting to discover the SATApersistent.
2016-10-13 07:06:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋