How to ensure SATA drive shows a drive 0?

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Gerald Bramwell

Hi,

I have an ASRock 775i65GV motherboard. I have just got a 250Gb SATA
drive on which I want to do a clean install of Windows XP home SP2. Is
there any way I can ensure that the SATA drive will the first drive I.E
drive0?

Thanks
Gerald
 
If its the only HD connected and it is connected to the SATA1 connector it
will be drive0

peter
 
There are two IDE drives and a DVD Writer in the system that I would
like to keep in place.

Gerald
 
Simply disconnect the ide hd's whilst installing, and if the dvd is in
edition to the cd disconnect that also
 
Gerald Bramwell said:
Hi,

I have an ASRock 775i65GV motherboard. I have just got a 250Gb SATA drive
on which I want to do a clean install of Windows XP home SP2. Is there any
way I can ensure that the SATA drive will the first drive I.E drive0?

Thanks
Gerald
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I don't think you can. As far as I know the bios reads PATA drives first
then SATA. However, that shouldn't create a problem as you can, at least for
most purposes, adjust through software (boot.ini, grub etc).

If you do as another has suggested, that is disconnect the PATA drives, then
the SATA will be initially seen as HD0 but I think I am right when I say
when you reconnect the PATA drives and reboot the drives will be renumbered
with the PATA drives being placed first.
 
I don't think you can. As far as I know the bios reads PATA drives first
then SATA. However, that shouldn't create a problem as you can, at least for
most purposes, adjust through software (boot.ini, grub etc).
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I have an Intel D915PBL Motherboard. I added a 750GB SATA WD Disk and it is now
in disk Management mentioned as disk 0.

However W2K was installed prior to that and the disk with the operating system
is now disk 1 whereas before the SATA addition it was disk 0.

It is therefore very likely that the SATA will install as disk(0)

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia
 
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