New Rig HD Question

[rileychris]

I just setup a new rig. I have installed WinXP SP2 Slipstreamed onto my new SATA drive. I now want to add in the IDE drives from my old PC as data drives on my new one. One of these was the boot drive on my old PC. What will I need to do so that these show up properly in my new system and that the SATA drive remains the Boot Drive.

 

[Matthias99]

Normally you just plug them into the IDE connectors on your motherboard (make sure the master/slave jumpers are set correctly). Boot order should be set in the BIOS; you can usually choose to boot from SATA or IDE (and also from things like the CD drive, floppy drive, possibly a USB device, etc.)

Once you do that, they should show up under My Computer if they are formatted. If they are unformatted, you will need to go into Disk Management to format them, and then they will be usable.

 

[DN]

Hook up the IDE HD in your system with the correct master/slave setting (probably want to keep it as master) and hook it up to an IDE connector on your motherboard on the end of the cable (depens what other IDE devices you have and where they are).. Just make sure the SATA is set to be the first "hard drive" device in the bootup process (besides maybe your "CDROM" or diskette drive, that's up to you) in the BIOS setup.. Once completed, you can go into Windows XP disk management and format it there -- making sure you are selecting the correct HD..

LOL, Matthias99 beat me to the answers, anyhoo..

 

[Amaroque]

Set it up as a slave drive, and make sure your SATA drive is the first drive the BIOS looks at.

You don't have to make it a slave, but it will ensure the computer won't boot from it.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Amaroque
Set it up as a slave drive, and make sure your SATA drive is the first drive the BIOS looks at.

You don't have to make it a slave, but it will ensure the computer won't boot from it.

This is a bad idea, and is also not true.

Setting a single IDE drive in a system as a 'slave' will make it inaccessible (if you only have one IDE drive, it must be the 'master' on its channel to be usable), and you can boot off of an IDE 'slave' device without a problem.

 

[Amaroque]

I always assumed you couldn't boot from a slave drive.

EDIT: Doh, I've booted from a 'slave' CD ROM. :roll: