If you go into the computer's BIOS screen, you will see separate entries for BIOS as well as IDE drives. You can enable and disable them individually.
You should also see a boot order screen. That may let you choose which is the startup drive. As far as master slave, there really isn't an issue anymore. With XP, you can reassign drive letters as needed. The only real requirement is set the correct device as the boot device/system partition device. M!ke -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 6:40 AM To: CF-Community Subject: another dumb computer question - IDE+SATA drives On my old PC, a few months ago, I added a new IDE drive to the box. I set it in 'choose' mode I think, which meant it would notice that it needed to be a slave and would set itself as such. On my new box my primary drive is a SATA drive. Is it safe to assume I can't slave the IDE drive to it? If so - what is the proper way to add it? Or should I take the easy way out and move the drive to a case I have the transforms internal drives to external usb 2 drives? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:157446 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
