- May 27, 2005
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I just got a SATA drive to add onto the PATA i already was running. To set things up I unplugged the PATA drive and set windows up on the SATA drive, this worked fine. When I plugged the PATA drive back in, it booted instead of the SATA drive.
I looked @ the BIOS settings and it turns out that SATA is set as IDE channel 3 and my PATA drive is runnig on channel 0. Since it looks for the first drive w/ windows on it the PATA drive boots.
In my haste to fix this I wasn't thinking and went into windows on the PATA drive and in the registry changed the disk name from C: to somethign else. THis only succeded in making that drive fail when i boot into windows (Gets to right before the login screen and freezes).
I still have data on the PATA drive so formattign it is not an option, is there any way that i can kill whatever files make it boot (perhaps boot.ini or ntlder) from the recovery console or something?
Thanks
I looked @ the BIOS settings and it turns out that SATA is set as IDE channel 3 and my PATA drive is runnig on channel 0. Since it looks for the first drive w/ windows on it the PATA drive boots.
In my haste to fix this I wasn't thinking and went into windows on the PATA drive and in the registry changed the disk name from C: to somethign else. THis only succeded in making that drive fail when i boot into windows (Gets to right before the login screen and freezes).
I still have data on the PATA drive so formattign it is not an option, is there any way that i can kill whatever files make it boot (perhaps boot.ini or ntlder) from the recovery console or something?
Thanks