- Nov 4, 2004
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Since SATA doesn't have a master slave setting. How is boot order determined?
I ask because I am going to setup my new system, I have 4 drives. 2 Standard IDE drives and 2 SATA. For the SATA drives I have 1 Raptor and 1 Seagate Barracuda.
I want the Raptor to be the boot drive for the system, but there is no way to have the system boot from the Raptor that I can see (have not tried to install XP). Anyone got some info on how I can make sure the Raptor is the boot disk I install the OS to?
If I take all the drives down cept for the Raptor, install the OS, then hook them all back up will that determin the boot drive?
Thanks.
I ask because I am going to setup my new system, I have 4 drives. 2 Standard IDE drives and 2 SATA. For the SATA drives I have 1 Raptor and 1 Seagate Barracuda.
I want the Raptor to be the boot drive for the system, but there is no way to have the system boot from the Raptor that I can see (have not tried to install XP). Anyone got some info on how I can make sure the Raptor is the boot disk I install the OS to?
If I take all the drives down cept for the Raptor, install the OS, then hook them all back up will that determin the boot drive?
Thanks.