SATA & IDE

[Argus]

A friend recently installed a SATA drive with a new XP OS (where he wants
the boot to be). He has 2 other IDE Hdrives, one being his old C: . When he
boots into the SATA, Disk management recognizes the older IDE's which has
his data, but Explorer won't see them, and there's no drive letter with
them. If he unhooks the SATA, he boots into the old C:, and can see both
IDE's in explorer. CMOS will know the drives are there, but they can't get
drive letters when the SATA boots.?? Any ideas? Thanks

 

[DL]

The IDE's are set as master & slave still?
In disk management you cannot assign a drive letter?

 

[Argus]

That's correct. The old configuration (IDE) will still boot, and the slave
will be the slave IF the SATA is not hooked up. When the SATA is hooked up,
the BIOS and disk management sees the IDE's, BUT they are not assigned a
letter, and in disk management the "assign" is greyed out (when running the
OS from the SATA). I had him check the settings, and he says they are what
I suggested, and even had him try one drive at a time ... still with the
same conclusion.
I'm stumped ... so with little experience, he's perplexed.