Help: SATA disk won't boot

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mario

I add a Seagate 300G SATA as Master to my A7N8X Deluxe rev. 2.0 (WinXP with
SP2).
I also have a regular Seagate Ultra ATA 300G in Primary IDE controller as
master
I select the SATA to be the boot disk via BIOS, but The system always boots
with the Regular UltraATA disk. However if I remove the UltraDisk then the
SATA disk will boot!
What did I do wrong?
TIA,
Mariot
 
mario said:
I add a Seagate 300G SATA as Master to my A7N8X Deluxe rev. 2.0 (WinXP with
SP2).
I also have a regular Seagate Ultra ATA 300G in Primary IDE controller as
master
I select the SATA to be the boot disk via BIOS, but The system always boots
with the Regular UltraATA disk. However if I remove the UltraDisk then the
SATA disk will boot!
What did I do wrong?
TIA,
Mariot
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Haven't really experienced anything like this because the
non-boot hard drives in my systems are usually configured
as extended partitions with logical drives. By chance, do
both the SATA and the Ultra-ATA hard drives carry a primary
partition? Theoretically, if there is a timing problem and
the SATA drive is slowed in spinning up or having its boot
sector read, the Ultra-ATA drive will then take precedence,
if it has a boot track.
 
Do you have an option to disable any boot device?
If so disable everything except the cd\dvd drive at the first boot device
and the Sata as the second device.
 
pete said:
Do you have an option to disable any boot device?
If so disable everything except the cd\dvd drive at the first boot device
and the Sata as the second device.
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I have an A7V880, and boot from SATA (normally), but If I connect an IDE HDD
to Primary or Secondary IDE for some reason, the BIOS automatically lists it
as First Boot device. This is with an AMI BIOS. I need to go back into the
BIOS and change the boot order again (each time I change the HDD
configuration). This never happened with AWARD BIOSes

Could just be a "feature" of the BIOS.
 
Yes and I disable the Ultra, I even select the SATA on all 3 choices, but to
no avail
Thank you for your time.
 
Itried with both as Primary then with the UltraATA as secondary but got no
effects!
Thank you for your time.
 
I have Award Bios, I re-check the Bios, it still show the SATA as the only
boot disk but in reality it won't boot when the UltraATA hook up!
Thank you for your time.
 
I had that board. No problem with SATA.
But - seem to recall - the drive had to be made
« active » in the SATA/RAID BIOS.
 
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