When you say won't boot, are we talking seeing the drive, or booting into the OS?
I know windows for example *hates* motherboard changes. On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Chris McQuistion <[email protected]>wrote: > First, good luck getting this to work. > Second, try going into the BIOS and setting the SATA ports to operate in > "IDE" mode or "Legacy" mode or something. By default, many BIOS' will run > the SATA ports in AHCI mode and this will goof up the booting of a system > expecting to be running in IDE mode. > > Chris > > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yep, the old one went toast, I purchased a reasonable upgrade frim >> tigerdirect. My issue is, it won't boot the old system. >> >> The old system was PATA, and the new is SATA, but I purchased some >> 'reasonable' IDE-PATA/SATA bridge hardware that seems to be working. >> >> It just won't boot. >> >> I know, the best idea is to reformat and start over, but that is not >> politically popular, so I am trying to find a reasonable workaround. >> >> TIA >> ><> ... Jack >> >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
