How To Slave A SATA?
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: Elvenmunky
Hello i have a Maxtor 60gb IDE hard drive and a Maxtor 120gb SATA hard drive, i as just wondering if i can master the IDE (for programs) and slave the SATA (for movies, music, pics etc etc)...and oh yeah i havent got a floppy drive.
Cheers!
Posted by: clocker
SATA drives are neither "master" or "slave" as there is only one drive per port.
Depending on your motherboard you may need to feed Windows a driver for the SATA to be seen.
Posted by: Virtualbody1234
I think I already answered your question here: http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showpost.php?p=1330405&postcount=4
Posted by: tesco
After putting the drive in just make sure in your BIOS it's not set to boot off the sata drive.
Posted by: Elvenmunky
In the BIOS do i set it to second priority boot? (under my IDE) and also my PC is not detecting the SATA drive (in disk management and system) because i dont think ive installed the drivers how do i do this w/o using a floppy...it detects it on the BIOS tho :S
Posted by: Elvenmunky
Also i have files on my SATA that i wish to keep so if i cant run both IDE and SATA is there any way i can access these files. Th reason is because i stupidly formatted te partition with windows on the SATA now i cant access the SATA because windows doesnt detect it without the drivers floppy.
Posted by: lynx
You only need the drivers on floppy if you are installing XP onto that drive. If you've already got XP on your IDE drive you can install them from any source. If you haven't got the cd that came with the mobo download the drivers from the manufacturers web site.
Posted by: Mïcrösöül°V³
Not sure if I am helping any, but I wanted to add. On my mobo, there are sata slots, and I could slave a sata by using it in the number 2 sata slot. in the bios, I had to select the drive from a list of hard drives that were installed, but not in the boot sequence section. There is (on my board) a separate area to select drives.
Posted by: tesco
In the BIOS do i set it to second priority boot? (under my IDE) and also my PC is not detecting the SATA drive (in disk management and system) because i dont think ive installed the drivers how do i do this w/o using a floppy...it detects it on the BIOS tho :S
Doesn't matter where it is in the boot priority just as long as it's under whatever you actually want to boot from.
Let us know what motherboard you have so we can help you find the sata drivers.
Posted by: Elvenmunky
Abit Kv7
Posted by: Virtualbody1234
http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/drivers.php?categories=1&model=125
Posted by: Elvenmunky
cheers mate