Problems with SATA & PATA on New HP's

[Matt]

Hello All,
I just bought two new HP's, one with XP Professional and one with
Vista Home Basic. The new machines came with SATA 80 Gb HDD's. I'm
trying to add a PATA slave drive to both from the old computers I've
replaced, on which I have a lot of data stored. The problem I'm
running into is this, everytime I hook the PATA (slave) drive up, the
computer boots from this new disc, and doesn't show the SATA drive any
longer. It's happening to both new HP's. I want these old PATA
drives as slave drives that I can use as additional storage. I've set
the jumper settings to "Slave" on both of the PATA drives. Can anyone
steer me in the correct direction? Thanks, Matt

 

[Andy]

Go into BIOS setup, and set the BIOS to boot from the SATA disk (Hard
Disk Boot Priority or Hard Disk Drive setting).

 

[Matt]

Go into BIOS setup, and set the BIOS to boot from the SATA disk (Hard
Disk Boot Priority or Hard Disk Drive setting).



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Thanks Andy, that worked on both. I appreciate your time. Matt