battlezed98
29th November 2008, 08:38
I got a PC from a friend which had the OS installed on a SATA II harddisk. I put a SATA I harddisk of my own, formatted the SATA II and installed the OS on the SATA I. Then i connected the SATA I on the motherboard using a 40 pin ATA cable and put the jumper in it to make it the master. There was no jumper i could find on the SATA II so i just let it be and connected it with a ATA II cable on the same motherboard. The BIOS is Pheonix-Award. the SATA II HDD was not being detected but the SATA I with the OS was. so i set the first boot device priority to Harddisk. but whenever i start the pc apparently it tries to boot from the SATA II so i have to manually go to the boot screen after pressing the F12 key and select my SATA I HDD. the Bios has no feature to do this. please can someone help me make the SATA II as a slave disk?? or any suggestions will do. thanks guys!!!
basflt
29th November 2008, 09:03
SATAdisks have no jumpers
the slot in MoBo wich its plugged in determinds master& slave
caje143
29th November 2008, 09:05
i dunno if im correct, but once u boot into your PC... i think u can check the BOOT.ini file which HD and Partition is mentioned in there for booting and edit it accordingly...
i say again... i dunno if this is correct but i read abt this somewhere long back :ashamed:
basflt
29th November 2008, 09:10
i dunno if im correct, but once u boot into your PC... i think u can check the BOOT.ini file which HD and Partition is mentioned in there for booting and edit it accordingly...
i say again... i dunno if this is correct but i read abt this somewhere long back :ashamed:
this is a windows file
if disk is not detected by bios , there aint no windows
battlezed98
30th November 2008, 10:15
it hasnt helped. i tried everything. and the sata II is being recognised by windows...but not during booting.
basflt
30th November 2008, 10:36
are both disks detected by bios?
in that case format them and install windows
on the fastest one
battlezed98
4th December 2008, 14:16
no the bios isnt detecting the sata II, thats the whole problem....
basflt
4th December 2008, 21:43
if bios doesnt see the disk its either
damaged
not supported or
not properly connected
since you moved it from one pc to another
i suspect damage by ESD
try to plug it in another sata-bank
if no cure simply buy a new one