SATA and IDE

[Bubbafat]

Can both run at once? with my new board backing stuff off my ide drives to a 250gb sata drive, so i dont lose everything reformating for new os...

[skoreanime]

Errr, of course you can. But if you mean running the same hard drive with the same OS on a new motherboard and expect everything to boot up properly...think again. Install a fresh OS on the SATA drive and have the IDE as a secondary drive.

[Bubbafat]

no no, you got it wrong, i was trying to hook up sata250gb to back up stuff, to wipe out, as i tried to only format windows drive and reinstalled and didnt work well, so i hook up sata hdd and it makes other 2 dissapear, and it has xp on it, so it gives blue screen of death, and i cant choose it to be slave.

Recap: as that kinda confused me

-Put in Sata250gb
-Made other hdd dissapear
-dissapeared hdd had the windows i needed for the board
-250 has xp for another board, but others dissapear so it trys to load that
-got frustrated and punched my new mobo, didnt break it though
-Is there a way to set sata drive to slave?

[skoreanime]

You don't have to set SATA drives in Master or Slave mode, they have their own completely separate line to the motherboard. Did you check your BIOS settings right?

[Bubbafat]

No clue where to check, never used sata, and the book dosnt really help, it uses all the abbreviations and crap, never tells you point here and click, they give whole fancy smancy 5 pages on one subject which dont help.

[Hard core Rikki]

What are the identificators for your bios, plus version? wich motherboard is that anyway.

The slave and master thingies are for PATA drives, because of old generation udma cables. Newer udma cables handle that nicely enough. BUT I think you are supposed to have 1 PATA drive set as master when SATAs are in. Using integrated SAYA ports? Are they running in legacy mode?

Again, explain the problem clearly. btw, if you use Acronis True Image Universal, you can totally clone the forst HDD with working win install, to deploy it on a different computer, requiring no install or reinstall.

[Bubbafat]

Its allright, my dad went and looked at it and fiddled and got it working, and what about pata drives, sorry dude last month i was still runing a pentium 4 2.4 with 738 mbs of ram and a 256 mb videocard... Im new to the new generation of useless uneeded things, which come in handy.

[KillerShots]

Sometimes a BIOS will have a "hard drive boot order" configuration option, that will let you choose which of the detected hard drives it will attempt to boot from. The nForce4 SLI boards have this option. It lets you select any of the primary/secondary master/slave of PATA or any of the SATA ports as the boot disk (and lets you have secondary options all the way down the line on all your drives).