I had just gone into the BIOS and I can change the HD priority. If I do
that, does Windows listen? Or does it have its own mind about what
drive it wants to boot from?
Steve
Jamie Furtner wrote:
Check your BIOS - my ASUS P5K lets me change the order of hard drives
and optical drives. If you're given that option, that would be easiest.
Jamie
Steve Tomporowski wrote:
It's time to reinstall the OS, which will be either Vista or 7 and I'm
going to move the current boot drive to be storage only (I have some
questions as to its ability as a boot drive). So, the question
becomes, what's the easiest way to do this without having this drive
still be the boot drive? This is a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P and there
are 8 SATA ports, 6 are labelled SATA 2_0 through SATA2_5, two others
are supposedly 3GB ports labelled GSSATA2_0 and GSSATA2_1. Case is
very crowded so I want to have to do as little rewiring as possible,
so can I add a drive to one of the unoccupied GS ports and have it
come out as the boot drive, or do I have to put the new drive in the
port from this drive? It would seem a shame if the boot drive can't
be a 3.0GB port. Manual is unclear here, I just want to make sure
that the old drive is not used by Windows for anything to do with
boot. The drive has too much info for me to just wipe right now.
Thanks...Steve
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