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patricklamarbrown
Hey all,
I have a new 500gb SATA hard drive that I want to install as a storage
drive. Here is my current setup:
I have two IDE drives on IDE 1...one drive is set to master and is my
c: drive. The second is set to slave and is my f: drive.
I have two CDR/DVDR drives on IDE 2...one drive is set to master and is
my d: drive. The second is set to slave and is my e: drive.
My mobo is an ECS P4M800PRO-M which has two SATA connectors on the
board.
I opened the computer and conneted the new SATA drive to the SATA
connector 1 and booted my computer. The bios recognizes my drive as
3rd master now.
The problem I am having is this...Windows XP now sees the new SATA
drive as c: and wants to boot to it. I want to keep my current set up
as specified above and just add the SATA drive as another storage
drive.
Also, if I restart my computer and press F8 I can boot into my IDE
master c: which is what i want it to do. However, when I am logged
into windows, the new SATA drive has a drive letter of g:
How do I get windows to boot normally with my current setup and have it
recognize my new SATA drive as a storge drive?
Thanks!
Patrick
I have a new 500gb SATA hard drive that I want to install as a storage
drive. Here is my current setup:
I have two IDE drives on IDE 1...one drive is set to master and is my
c: drive. The second is set to slave and is my f: drive.
I have two CDR/DVDR drives on IDE 2...one drive is set to master and is
my d: drive. The second is set to slave and is my e: drive.
My mobo is an ECS P4M800PRO-M which has two SATA connectors on the
board.
I opened the computer and conneted the new SATA drive to the SATA
connector 1 and booted my computer. The bios recognizes my drive as
3rd master now.
The problem I am having is this...Windows XP now sees the new SATA
drive as c: and wants to boot to it. I want to keep my current set up
as specified above and just add the SATA drive as another storage
drive.
Also, if I restart my computer and press F8 I can boot into my IDE
master c: which is what i want it to do. However, when I am logged
into windows, the new SATA drive has a drive letter of g:
How do I get windows to boot normally with my current setup and have it
recognize my new SATA drive as a storge drive?
Thanks!
Patrick