Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations gkittelson on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
-
Problems running both SATA and IDE hard drives
What I did yesterday morning after posting was boot from an XP cd, delete all partitions, and then reinstall windows. I then reinstalled windows. As of right now, I am having a hard time telling what is going on and how things turned out. From booting and running applications, I feel like...- TheMainer
- Post #6
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
-
Problems running both SATA and IDE hard drives
Another thing which might help in debugging the problem is how I ran into this problem. Originally, I was using my IDE hard drive as the master, while I waited for my RMA'ed SATA drive to come in. Once it arrived, I wanted my SATA drive to be the master, and the IDE to be the slave. What is...- TheMainer
- Post #2
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
-
Problems running both SATA and IDE hard drives
I currently have Windows XP installed on my SATA drive and all is working well with that. I also have an IDE drive which the power is not currently connected. The reason for this is that as soon as my IDE is connected and has power, the system tries to boot from IDE drive instead of my SATA...- TheMainer
- Thread
- Replies: 6
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
