SATA Hard Drives

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SATA Hard Drives

Postby Alpha_Hazard » Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:09 am

Not exactly a heads up...

Does anybody know if I can set a SATA hard drive to master so I can boot off of it?
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Postby RootHubController » Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:40 am

There's several methods.
1. If your SATA connection is on the Mobo, then the BIOS should have a SATA/ RAID utility that allows you to choose that drive as a bootable drive.
OR
You can enable it in the boot sequence of your mobo. In some cases this involes enabling 'Boot from other device' in your bios.

If this is via an expansion card, there should be a utility that handles this for you.
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Postby Alpha_Hazard » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:33 am

okay, thanks, I check it out...
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Postby godix » Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:34 pm

One thing to note, windows treats SATA as a RAID set even if you only have one. If you're installing windows from scratch make sure you have the raid drivers on disc for it.
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Postby Brolly345 » Wed Sep 01, 2004 1:20 am

Assuming I'm understanding your question right, and if I remember how an SATA works...

On the back of the hard drive there are little things called jumpers. Placing these a certain way will tell the drive whether it's a master or a slave, ect. Just look on the back of the hard drive, or in the manual for it, and see what jumper setting you need to make it a master. And to get it to boot first just go into setup before Windows (assuming that's what your running) starts and tell it which drive (the master) to boot from first.

Hope that helps.

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