PC Boot Problem

[wannabie2]

I posted this in the wrong forum. It was suggested that I post my question here.

I have an older system which is a pretty good Xeon PC. the problem is it doesn't have SATA on the board. I bought a PCI-SATA card hoping that it would be like a SCSI bootable but the PCI-SATA card cannot be seen in the bios even after updating the BIOS.

So I had a thought. the computer does have and IDE connection and I was wondering is it possible to boot from the IDE to SATA drive.
meaning, Have the boot files on the IDE drive and have it recognize and point to the SATA drive with the windows OS on it? it would be like old school mounting the CDrom Drive.

if there is a way, How do I go about it?

 

[goombawaho]

Give us brand and model number of the PCI-Sata card so we can verify that there's not a way for it to host the boot hard drive.

 

[BadBigBen]

Wannabie2, yes it is possible...

but first, see if the BIOS has a setting called BOOT OTHER or FORCE PC CARD ROM (or similar wording), best give us the details to the mainboard as well as the info asked by Goom....


Ben
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