P4C800-E Deluxe and boot drives

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J. Johnson

I have one drive - a Seagate SATA. When I try to hook up my Western
Digital 160 GB IDE drive as a second drive the computer won't boot
first to my Seagate drive. It wants to boot to my WD Drive? I've tried
a number of things but the SATA drive is always listed as 3rd master.
Any help you can give would be appreciated.

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J. Johnson
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Go into the Bios under the BOOT section. Make sure that the WD drive is not
listed and that your Seagate is. I had a similar problem recently while
building a system. Whenever I added a drive (after the Windows XP install),
it would add itself to the Boot menu and try to boot from it. If I remember
correctly, de-selecting it fixed the problem.
 
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