Overcoming boot choice issue

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I have an IDE drive and have added a SATA. Have cloned the IDE boot
drive (XP Pro) to the SATA. Board is Asus A8V. The IDE drive is shown
as system and the SATA as primary.

On booting the PC always looks to the IDE drive to boot. I can at that
stage, use the boot.ini drive on it to boot from SATA. The BIOS DOES
NOT give an option to select the SATA drive in the Boot priority
section although SATA boot is enabled. Options are Floppy, HD, CD and
disable.

Straight at boot up, the option is there for me to press F8 which
gives me a choice to boot into SATA but this is inconvenient as it
does not default to SATA.

Issues:
How can I boot from SATA asnd use IDE as a store drive? Can I change
the SATA to be system drive somehow to boot from it?
 
I have an IDE drive and have added a SATA. Have cloned the IDE boot
drive (XP Pro) to the SATA. Board is Asus A8V. The IDE drive is shown
as system and the SATA as primary.

On booting the PC always looks to the IDE drive to boot. I can at that
stage, use the boot.ini drive on it to boot from SATA. The BIOS DOES
NOT give an option to select the SATA drive in the Boot priority
section although SATA boot is enabled. Options are Floppy, HD, CD and
disable.

Straight at boot up, the option is there for me to press F8 which
gives me a choice to boot into SATA but this is inconvenient as it
does not default to SATA.

Issues:
How can I boot from SATA asnd use IDE as a store drive? Can I change
the SATA to be system drive somehow to boot from it?
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Disabled the IDE and the PC boots into the SATA drive. Also there is
an option in the boot priority to choose the SATA drive as 1st boot
option.

Reconnected the IDE drive and no option to boot from SATA in the
BIOS!!

Help please!
 
What motherboard do you have? On my Asus board, it seems to me there was
two places in the BIOS that I had to set that to make it happen, otherwise
it would do exactly what you're describing.

Clint
 
What motherboard do you have? On my Asus board, it seems to me there was
two places in the BIOS that I had to set that to make it happen, otherwise
it would do exactly what you're describing.

Clint
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I have Asus A8V.
 
What motherboard do you have? On my Asus board, it seems to me there was
two places in the BIOS that I had to set that to make it happen, otherwise
it would do exactly what you're describing.

Clint
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Got it!!

Thanks. Strange setup in Award bios on this board!! In one section you
first state your HD choice you want to use (either the SATA or the IDE
drive - defaults to IDE).. Then in the boot priority section, it picks
that HD (as selected above).

Pity this is not documented in the manual.
 
Glad it worked out for you. I ran into that same thing as you found, and
was equally frustrated. But I happened to stumble across the setting.

Clint
 
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