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My last post here guys. There is a big difference between booting from a bios and a boot manager. In a bios you are chosing a drive where in software you are chosing a partition. And that software changes the statis of the active partition. In other words if I boot into windows xp on...

After rereading your last post I think you are not using a comparable example. You are using the bios as a boot manager where I am using 3rd party software. A person can only assume windows switches the disk ids because of the dos partition being the first partition on the disk. If windows...

again, you might not be getting the problem. If the bios has the disk ids right and windows changes the disk ids, which do you think is causing the problem? One last time, when the machine boots the bios reports the disk ids correctly. Windows apparntly boots before the boot manager and...

Nope, every drive I tried to add as additional storage was setup as a logical drive. But even if the drive was an ide and set to active and was a boot drive in another machine it should not take precedence over a boot drive on the primary master unless the bios is set for it. The only...

Company tech support always wanted people to put additional hard drives and cd/dvd drives on seperate cables because of increased transfer rates and less crosstalk. It used to be their staple answer in helping to avoid problems with cd/dvd recording on the same cable as a source hard drive...

Please do everyone a favor before you post. Read the previous posts. If you have not used a boot manager other than built into a bios or windows, and a drive with DOS boot partition then you do not get the problem. DOS boot partitions have to be on disk0. Hard drives do have settings but if...

I called Western digital tech support. Overseas asian I could hardly hear. After he had me check my settings with him and spending several minutes consultinf with someone else he came back on the phone and said it was a windows issue. Now I know that western digital is lax on thier jumper...

Second drive is sata and IDE, I have tried both drive types. Same thing with any drive I try to add. No the bios/mb does not translate from sata to ide. Does same thing whether CD/DVD is hooked up or not.

I should have mentioned the drives have the correct jumpers. No they are not on the same cable. Yes the bios is setup correctly.

This is the strangest problem that is screwing me up on this machine. It is a dual core intel box with 1gb mem. I have an ide boot drive that is multi boot partitioned. When a second drive is added, the second drive becomes drive0 and the boot drive become drive1. This screws up bootmagic...