newbie2181
Technical User
Hi,
I have recently just bought a new machine and built it. I bought a SATA drive with it. I had nightmares trying to install win XP on it because the XP install would not recognise the drive although the bios was. I started messing around and just pluged a normal ide drive in as well. The the install went through fine without any problems onto the SATA drive?!
Now when i try and turn the computer on it will only boot unless the normal ide hard drive is plugged in as well. I have read the documentation on the motherboard but there was only a page on setting SATA drives up and i didn't really understand it!!
The motheboard i am using is MSI 865G Neo2, with a Maxtor diamondmax plus 9.
Any help here would be great
Cheers
Dan
I have recently just bought a new machine and built it. I bought a SATA drive with it. I had nightmares trying to install win XP on it because the XP install would not recognise the drive although the bios was. I started messing around and just pluged a normal ide drive in as well. The the install went through fine without any problems onto the SATA drive?!
Now when i try and turn the computer on it will only boot unless the normal ide hard drive is plugged in as well. I have read the documentation on the motherboard but there was only a page on setting SATA drives up and i didn't really understand it!!
The motheboard i am using is MSI 865G Neo2, with a Maxtor diamondmax plus 9.
Any help here would be great
Cheers
Dan