Two systems in one

[Guest]

Hi,

When installing more memory I loosened the IDE cable to two drives (one of
these drives had an old installation of XP). I have two SATA drives as well.
My first reboot after the memory install worked fine, but I could not see the
two IDE drives. After reconnecting the loose cable and rebooting I had to
re-register my XP installation. No problem there, but now when I boot the
system I get the old installation of XP . If I disconnect the IDE drives the
system boots just fine off of the SATA drives. How can I get all the drives
to play together again. Thanks

Brian Tilley,
Edmonton

 

[Ron Martell]

Hi,

When installing more memory I loosened the IDE cable to two drives (one of
these drives had an old installation of XP). I have two SATA drives as well.
My first reboot after the memory install worked fine, but I could not see the
two IDE drives. After reconnecting the loose cable and rebooting I had to
re-register my XP installation. No problem there, but now when I boot the
system I get the old installation of XP . If I disconnect the IDE drives the
system boots just fine off of the SATA drives. How can I get all the drives
to play together again. Thanks

Brian Tilley,
Edmonton

You probably need to go into the BIOS setup and reconfigure the boot
drive priority sequences so that the SATA drive is the first priority.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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