Win XP on IDE not working with 2nd SATA hard disk

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Hello all,
Recently my 160GB Seagate Barracuda SATA hard drive failed and I purchased
another similar drive but with IDE interface. I installed windows XP with
SP2 on my IDE disk and started using it. In the mean time I got a
replacement for my failed SATA hard drive.

I connected the new SATA drive and using Partition magic (using Hiren's Boot
CD) partitioned the disk and formatted it to NTFS.
(30gb primary, remaining extended partition split to 4 more logical
partitions)

When I powered up my system, Windows XP first identified a new disk and
asked me to restart. When I restarted, it performed chkdisk on all new
formatted partitions and I was able to log in to windows. Then I was using
the computer for a while and restarted, after which windows XP no longer
boots. I get boot Disk failure.

I disabled all 4 SATA ports on my BIOS and restarted. Then windows works
fine.

How do I configure in BIOS (ASUS A8N-E Bios ver 1013) to have both IDE and
SATA hard drives enabled and still boot from my Windows XP installation in
the IDE drive??

Has anybody been able to configure it right??

thanks
Kamesh
 
Hi folks,
I remembered how to set it right in the BIOS! Please don't bother to reply.
I fixed it.

kamesh
 
hey kamesh i have a similar problem with you but to no avail i wasn't able to
resolve it. anyhow, i 'm replacing my old ide primary master hard drive into
sata. i also have an old ide slave wich i wanted to continue to use with the
sata HD. i've tried tinkering the bios but when the ide HD doesn't appear
when i try to click on my computer. how can i resolve this?
 
hey kamesh i have a similar problem with you but to no avail i wasn't able to
resolve it. anyhow, i 'm replacing my old ide primary master hard drive into
sata. i also have an old ide slave wich i wanted to continue to use with the
sata HD. i've tried tinkering the bios but when the ide HD doesn't appear
when i try to click on my computer. how can i resolve this?
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IDE "slave" drive will always require a "master" drive to be connected
onto the same cable. The master drive is the drive that has the
electronic controls which "tell" the computer how to access the data
off the drive. Each SATA drive is directly connected to one SATA port
so there is no "master" / "slave" setting on the hard drive itself.
These are determined by the motherboard./ BIOS settings.

One possible solution if to change the jumper setting of the "slave"
drive to "master."
 
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