Drive Conflict

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Maurice

Recently added a second hard drive to my Vista Ultimate desktop. Drive was
seen in the 'manage' option of my computer but not in 'my computer' after the
drive was formatted. Only remaining option was to make the drive 'active'.
After doing so the drive was seen in my computer. Regrettably, after
rebooting, the boot process is interupted because the new drive is searched
first for an operating system. Fortunately, the BIOS allows me to select the
dive with the OS. The problem is that the selection is not persistent and I
must return to the BIOS option to make the switch. I see that the newly
added drive is not only listed as active but the primary partition. I see no
way to ammend the settings so that the first drive is active, primary and the
first drive sought for an OS. Guidance sought
 
Maurice said:
Recently added a second hard drive to my Vista Ultimate desktop.
Drive was
seen in the 'manage' option of my computer but not in 'my computer'
after the
drive was formatted. Only remaining option was to make the drive
'active'.
After doing so the drive was seen in my computer. Regrettably, after
rebooting, the boot process is interupted because the new drive is
searched
first for an operating system. Fortunately, the BIOS allows me to
select the
dive with the OS. The problem is that the selection is not persistent
and I
must return to the BIOS option to make the switch. I see that the
newly
added drive is not only listed as active but the primary partition. I
see no
way to ammend the settings so that the first drive is active, primary
and the
first drive sought for an OS. Guidance sought
Click to expand...
Try reversing the drives.
bw..
 
Recently added a second hard drive to my Vista Ultimate desktop. Drive
was seen in the 'manage' option of my computer but not in 'my computer'
after the drive was formatted. Only remaining option was to make the
drive 'active'. After doing so the drive was seen in my computer.
Regrettably, after rebooting, the boot process is interupted because the
new drive is searched first for an operating system. Fortunately, the
BIOS allows me to select the dive with the OS. The problem is that the
selection is not persistent and I must return to the BIOS option to make
the switch. I see that the newly added drive is not only listed as
active but the primary partition. I see no way to ammend the settings
so that the first drive is active, primary and the first drive sought
for an OS. Guidance sought
Click to expand...

If these are IDE drives, which is master and which is slave - or are they
connected to the same controller? Did you properly set jumpers when you
installed?
 
Much thanks for your timely reply. Not sure what you mean by 'reversing' the
drives. I can change the jumper settings to switch the master/slave
connections but your reply does not specify. Continued guidance sought
 
meerkat said:
Try reversing the drives.
bw..
Click to expand...
Make drive A, drive B
And drive B, drive A.

The reason I said what I did, was that you did`nt specify
how they were currently connected.
See alsop rays` answer.
ie. check for Master/Slave settings, or even cable select.
 
Recently added a second hard drive to my Vista Ultimate desktop. Drive was
seen in the 'manage' option of my computer but not in 'my computer' after the
drive was formatted. Only remaining option was to make the drive 'active'.
After doing so the drive was seen in my computer. Regrettably, after
rebooting, the boot process is interupted because the new drive is searched
first for an operating system. Fortunately, the BIOS allows me to select the
dive with the OS. The problem is that the selection is not persistent and I
Click to expand...

Go into BIOS setup and change the order of the drives under the Hard
Disk Boot Priority or Hard Disk Drives setting.
 
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