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Problems with 2nd Internal Hard DRive Installation
My system now has two SATA internal hard drives-Western Digital 500 gb and a
Western Digital 160 gb. I cloned a copy of my original hard onto the new 500 gb hard drive.BUT with both drives installed I could only boot from my original 160 gb hard drive. Obviously, I wanted to use the new hard drive as the Master and the original as the Slave for storage.But SATA doesn't accomodate this approach.NOW I could disconnect the original hard drive and boot from the new . I would not have a bacdk up\storage hard drive, however. I tried changing driving names through renaming by altering registry values. I could not rename the drives through MY COMPUTER\MANAGE\DISC DRIVES\RENAME LETTER OF DEVICE. The drop down menu didn't offer the letter "c" for the new drive and the only letter offered to select for my original drive was "C". The changing of names through altering registry values crashed my system. PRESENT STATUS OF MY SYSTEM: Boots and operates form new 500 GB disc drive. Original hard drive is recognized in Setup. HOWEVER, if I enable both drives to be run by SYSTEM BIOS as controller my computer won't boot. ERROR MESSAGE: No boot device. If I TURN OFF the SATA controller for the 160 GB disc drive then my computer boots up. The second hard drive (160 GB drive i want to use for back up) is not listed in My Computer or Device Manager.In the BOOT MENU I only have one SATA drive disc device listed to select as primary boot. I can select to boot from a floppy diskette, even though I don't have a floppy disc, or an IDE hard drive, even though I don't have such a hard drive. I have selected SATA hard drive as the only option (1) in the boot order. When I turn off the 160 GB secondary drive its system controller changes f from SYSTEM BIOS to unidentified SATA CONTROLLER. DELL DIMENSION 3100 -e310 BIOS Dell System DV051 version A04 Phoenix ROM BIOS plus version 1.10 A04 Any suggestions or help on how to resolve this problem are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Chris -- Many thanks and sincere gratitude to anyone who takes the time to answer my query. Sincerely, Chris |
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searcher007 wrote:
My system now has two SATA internal hard drives-Western Digital 500 gb and a Western Digital 160 gb. I cloned a copy of my original hard onto the new 500 gb hard drive.BUT with both drives installed I could only boot from my original 160 gb hard drive. Obviously, I wanted to use the new hard drive as the Master and the original as the Slave for storage.But SATA doesn't accomodate this approach.NOW I could disconnect the original hard drive and boot from the new . I would not have a bacdk up\storage hard drive, however. I tried changing driving names through renaming by altering registry values. I could not rename the drives through MY COMPUTER\MANAGE\DISC DRIVES\RENAME LETTER OF DEVICE. The drop down menu didn't offer the letter "c" for the new drive and the only letter offered to select for my original drive was "C". The changing of names through altering registry values crashed my system. PRESENT STATUS OF MY SYSTEM: Boots and operates form new 500 GB disc drive. Original hard drive is recognized in Setup. HOWEVER, if I enable both drives to be run by SYSTEM BIOS as controller my computer won't boot. ERROR MESSAGE: No boot device. If I TURN OFF the SATA controller for the 160 GB disc drive then my computer boots up. The second hard drive (160 GB drive i want to use for back up) is not listed in My Computer or Device Manager.In the BOOT MENU I only have one SATA drive disc device listed to select as primary boot. I can select to boot from a floppy diskette, even though I don't have a floppy disc, or an IDE hard drive, even though I don't have such a hard drive. I have selected SATA hard drive as the only option (1) in the boot order. When I turn off the 160 GB secondary drive its system controller changes f from SYSTEM BIOS to unidentified SATA CONTROLLER. DELL DIMENSION 3100 -e310 BIOS Dell System DV051 version A04 Phoenix ROM BIOS plus version 1.10 A04 Any suggestions or help on how to resolve this problem are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Chris My motherboard has SATA connections marked as SATAII0, SATAII1, etc. Try hooking the new 500 GB drive into SATAII0, the old drive into SATAII1. -- JD.. |
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searcher007 wrote:
My system now has two SATA internal hard drives-Western Digital 500 gb and a Western Digital 160 gb. I cloned a copy of my original hard onto the new 500 gb hard drive.BUT with both drives installed I could only boot from my original 160 gb hard drive. Obviously, I wanted to use the new hard drive as the Master and the original as the Slave for storage.But SATA doesn't accomodate this approach.NOW I could disconnect the original hard drive and boot from the new . I would not have a bacdk up\storage hard drive, however. I tried changing driving names through renaming by altering registry values. I could not rename the drives through MY COMPUTER\MANAGE\DISC DRIVES\RENAME LETTER OF DEVICE. The drop down menu didn't offer the letter "c" for the new drive and the only letter offered to select for my original drive was "C". The changing of names through altering registry values crashed my system. PRESENT STATUS OF MY SYSTEM: Boots and operates form new 500 GB disc drive. Original hard drive is recognized in Setup. HOWEVER, if I enable both drives to be run by SYSTEM BIOS as controller my computer won't boot. ERROR MESSAGE: No boot device. If I TURN OFF the SATA controller for the 160 GB disc drive then my computer boots up. The second hard drive (160 GB drive i want to use for back up) is not listed in My Computer or Device Manager.In the BOOT MENU I only have one SATA drive disc device listed to select as primary boot. I can select to boot from a floppy diskette, even though I don't have a floppy disc, or an IDE hard drive, even though I don't have such a hard drive. I have selected SATA hard drive as the only option (1) in the boot order. When I turn off the 160 GB secondary drive its system controller changes f from SYSTEM BIOS to unidentified SATA CONTROLLER. DELL DIMENSION 3100 -e310 BIOS Dell System DV051 version A04 Phoenix ROM BIOS plus version 1.10 A04 Any suggestions or help on how to resolve this problem are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Chris My motherboard has SATA connections marked as SATAII0, SATAII1, etc. Try hooking the new 500 GB drive into SATAII0, the old drive into SATAII1. -- JD.. |
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Does your drive report which is the SATA Master
and which is the Slave. Try reversing the SATA cables may do the trick. Start with only the 500GB connected and if you are able to boot then shutdown and connect the 160GB drive and reboot. -- JS http://www.pagestart.com "searcher007" wrote in message ... My system now has two SATA internal hard drives-Western Digital 500 gb and a Western Digital 160 gb. I cloned a copy of my original hard onto the new 500 gb hard drive.BUT with both drives installed I could only boot from my original 160 gb hard drive. Obviously, I wanted to use the new hard drive as the Master and the original as the Slave for storage.But SATA doesn't accomodate this approach.NOW I could disconnect the original hard drive and boot from the new . I would not have a bacdk up\storage hard drive, however. I tried changing driving names through renaming by altering registry values. I could not rename the drives through MY COMPUTER\MANAGE\DISC DRIVES\RENAME LETTER OF DEVICE. The drop down menu didn't offer the letter "c" for the new drive and the only letter offered to select for my original drive was "C". The changing of names through altering registry values crashed my system. PRESENT STATUS OF MY SYSTEM: Boots and operates form new 500 GB disc drive. Original hard drive is recognized in Setup. HOWEVER, if I enable both drives to be run by SYSTEM BIOS as controller my computer won't boot. ERROR MESSAGE: No boot device. If I TURN OFF the SATA controller for the 160 GB disc drive then my computer boots up. The second hard drive (160 GB drive i want to use for back up) is not listed in My Computer or Device Manager.In the BOOT MENU I only have one SATA drive disc device listed to select as primary boot. I can select to boot from a floppy diskette, even though I don't have a floppy disc, or an IDE hard drive, even though I don't have such a hard drive. I have selected SATA hard drive as the only option (1) in the boot order. When I turn off the 160 GB secondary drive its system controller changes f from SYSTEM BIOS to unidentified SATA CONTROLLER. DELL DIMENSION 3100 -e310 BIOS Dell System DV051 version A04 Phoenix ROM BIOS plus version 1.10 A04 Any suggestions or help on how to resolve this problem are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Chris -- Many thanks and sincere gratitude to anyone who takes the time to answer my query. Sincerely, Chris |
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Does your drive report which is the SATA Master and which is the Slave. Try reversing the SATA cables may do the trick. Start with only the 500GB connected and if you are able to boot then shutdown and connect the 160GB drive and reboot. -- JS http://www.pagestart.com "searcher007" wrote in message ... My system now has two SATA internal hard drives-Western Digital 500 gb and a Western Digital 160 gb. I cloned a copy of my original hard onto the new 500 gb hard drive.BUT with both drives installed I could only boot from my original 160 gb hard drive. Obviously, I wanted to use the new hard drive as the Master and the original as the Slave for storage.But SATA doesn't accomodate this approach.NOW I could disconnect the original hard drive and boot from the new . I would not have a bacdk up\storage hard drive, however. I tried changing driving names through renaming by altering registry values. I could not rename the drives through MY COMPUTER\MANAGE\DISC DRIVES\RENAME LETTER OF DEVICE. The drop down menu didn't offer the letter "c" for the new drive and the only letter offered to select for my original drive was "C". The changing of names through altering registry values crashed my system. PRESENT STATUS OF MY SYSTEM: Boots and operates form new 500 GB disc drive. Original hard drive is recognized in Setup. HOWEVER, if I enable both drives to be run by SYSTEM BIOS as controller my computer won't boot. ERROR MESSAGE: No boot device. If I TURN OFF the SATA controller for the 160 GB disc drive then my computer boots up. The second hard drive (160 GB drive i want to use for back up) is not listed in My Computer or Device Manager.In the BOOT MENU I only have one SATA drive disc device listed to select as primary boot. I can select to boot from a floppy diskette, even though I don't have a floppy disc, or an IDE hard drive, even though I don't have such a hard drive. I have selected SATA hard drive as the only option (1) in the boot order. When I turn off the 160 GB secondary drive its system controller changes f from SYSTEM BIOS to unidentified SATA CONTROLLER. DELL DIMENSION 3100 -e310 BIOS Dell System DV051 version A04 Phoenix ROM BIOS plus version 1.10 A04 Any suggestions or help on how to resolve this problem are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Chris -- Many thanks and sincere gratitude to anyone who takes the time to answer my query. Sincerely, Chris |
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"JS" @ wrote in message
Does your drive report which is the SATA Master and which is the Slave. Try reversing the SATA cables may do the trick. Start with only the 500GB connected and if you are able to boot then shutdown and connect the 160GB drive and reboot. "searcher007" wrote in message ... My system now has two SATA internal hard drives-Western Digital 500 gb and a Western Digital 160 gb. I cloned a copy of my original hard onto the new 500 gb hard drive.BUT with both drives installed I could only boot from my original 160 gb hard drive. Obviously, I wanted to use the new hard drive as the Master and the original as the Slave for storage.But SATA doesn't accomodate this approach.NOW I could disconnect the original hard drive and boot from the new . I would not have a bacdk up\storage hard drive, however. I tried changing driving names through renaming by altering registry values. I could not rename the drives through MY COMPUTER\MANAGE\DISC DRIVES\RENAME LETTER OF DEVICE. The drop down menu didn't offer the letter "c" for the new drive and the only letter offered to select for my original drive was "C". The changing of names through altering registry values crashed my system. PRESENT STATUS OF MY SYSTEM: Boots and operates form new 500 GB disc drive. Original hard drive is recognized in Setup. HOWEVER, if I enable both drives to be run by SYSTEM BIOS as controller my computer won't boot. ERROR MESSAGE: No boot device. If I TURN OFF the SATA controller for the 160 GB disc drive then my computer boots up. The second hard drive (160 GB drive i want to use for back up) is not listed in My Computer or Device Manager.In the BOOT MENU I only have one SATA drive disc device listed to select as primary boot. I can select to boot from a floppy diskette, even though I don't have a floppy disc, or an IDE hard drive, even though I don't have such a hard drive. I have selected SATA hard drive as the only option (1) in the boot order. When I turn off the 160 GB secondary drive its system controller changes f from SYSTEM BIOS to unidentified SATA CONTROLLER. DELL DIMENSION 3100 -e310 BIOS Dell System DV051 version A04 Phoenix ROM BIOS plus version 1.10 A04 Any suggestions or help on how to resolve this problem are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Chris -- Many thanks and sincere gratitude to anyone who takes the time to answer my query. Sincerely, Chris There is no Master/Slave relationship when using SATA drives. The drive that's used to Boot from is set up in the BIOS settings on the only two machines I've ever worked on but I imagine they are all similar. Go to the Boot Order area of the BIOS and set the drive you want to boot from there. I think it'll work. Twayne` |
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"JS" @ wrote in message Does your drive report which is the SATA Master and which is the Slave. Try reversing the SATA cables may do the trick. Start with only the 500GB connected and if you are able to boot then shutdown and connect the 160GB drive and reboot. "searcher007" wrote in message ... My system now has two SATA internal hard drives-Western Digital 500 gb and a Western Digital 160 gb. I cloned a copy of my original hard onto the new 500 gb hard drive.BUT with both drives installed I could only boot from my original 160 gb hard drive. Obviously, I wanted to use the new hard drive as the Master and the original as the Slave for storage.But SATA doesn't accomodate this approach.NOW I could disconnect the original hard drive and boot from the new . I would not have a bacdk up\storage hard drive, however. I tried changing driving names through renaming by altering registry values. I could not rename the drives through MY COMPUTER\MANAGE\DISC DRIVES\RENAME LETTER OF DEVICE. The drop down menu didn't offer the letter "c" for the new drive and the only letter offered to select for my original drive was "C". The changing of names through altering registry values crashed my system. PRESENT STATUS OF MY SYSTEM: Boots and operates form new 500 GB disc drive. Original hard drive is recognized in Setup. HOWEVER, if I enable both drives to be run by SYSTEM BIOS as controller my computer won't boot. ERROR MESSAGE: No boot device. If I TURN OFF the SATA controller for the 160 GB disc drive then my computer boots up. The second hard drive (160 GB drive i want to use for back up) is not listed in My Computer or Device Manager.In the BOOT MENU I only have one SATA drive disc device listed to select as primary boot. I can select to boot from a floppy diskette, even though I don't have a floppy disc, or an IDE hard drive, even though I don't have such a hard drive. I have selected SATA hard drive as the only option (1) in the boot order. When I turn off the 160 GB secondary drive its system controller changes f from SYSTEM BIOS to unidentified SATA CONTROLLER. DELL DIMENSION 3100 -e310 BIOS Dell System DV051 version A04 Phoenix ROM BIOS plus version 1.10 A04 Any suggestions or help on how to resolve this problem are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Chris -- Many thanks and sincere gratitude to anyone who takes the time to answer my query. Sincerely, Chris There is no Master/Slave relationship when using SATA drives. The drive that's used to Boot from is set up in the BIOS settings on the only two machines I've ever worked on but I imagine they are all similar. Go to the Boot Order area of the BIOS and set the drive you want to boot from there. I think it'll work. Twayne` |
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The BIOS on one of my computers reports
one drive as Master and the other a Slave. -- JS http://www.pagestart.com "Twayne" wrote in message ... "JS" @ wrote in message Does your drive report which is the SATA Master and which is the Slave. Try reversing the SATA cables may do the trick. Start with only the 500GB connected and if you are able to boot then shutdown and connect the 160GB drive and reboot. "searcher007" wrote in message ... My system now has two SATA internal hard drives-Western Digital 500 gb and a Western Digital 160 gb. I cloned a copy of my original hard onto the new 500 gb hard drive.BUT with both drives installed I could only boot from my original 160 gb hard drive. Obviously, I wanted to use the new hard drive as the Master and the original as the Slave for storage.But SATA doesn't accomodate this approach.NOW I could disconnect the original hard drive and boot from the new . I would not have a bacdk up\storage hard drive, however. I tried changing driving names through renaming by altering registry values. I could not rename the drives through MY COMPUTER\MANAGE\DISC DRIVES\RENAME LETTER OF DEVICE. The drop down menu didn't offer the letter "c" for the new drive and the only letter offered to select for my original drive was "C". The changing of names through altering registry values crashed my system. PRESENT STATUS OF MY SYSTEM: Boots and operates form new 500 GB disc drive. Original hard drive is recognized in Setup. HOWEVER, if I enable both drives to be run by SYSTEM BIOS as controller my computer won't boot. ERROR MESSAGE: No boot device. If I TURN OFF the SATA controller for the 160 GB disc drive then my computer boots up. The second hard drive (160 GB drive i want to use for back up) is not listed in My Computer or Device Manager.In the BOOT MENU I only have one SATA drive disc device listed to select as primary boot. I can select to boot from a floppy diskette, even though I don't have a floppy disc, or an IDE hard drive, even though I don't have such a hard drive. I have selected SATA hard drive as the only option (1) in the boot order. When I turn off the 160 GB secondary drive its system controller changes f from SYSTEM BIOS to unidentified SATA CONTROLLER. DELL DIMENSION 3100 -e310 BIOS Dell System DV051 version A04 Phoenix ROM BIOS plus version 1.10 A04 Any suggestions or help on how to resolve this problem are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Chris -- Many thanks and sincere gratitude to anyone who takes the time to answer my query. Sincerely, Chris There is no Master/Slave relationship when using SATA drives. The drive that's used to Boot from is set up in the BIOS settings on the only two machines I've ever worked on but I imagine they are all similar. Go to the Boot Order area of the BIOS and set the drive you want to boot from there. I think it'll work. Twayne` |
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The BIOS on one of my computers reports
one drive as Master and the other a Slave. -- JS http://www.pagestart.com "Twayne" wrote in message ... "JS" @ wrote in message Does your drive report which is the SATA Master and which is the Slave. Try reversing the SATA cables may do the trick. Start with only the 500GB connected and if you are able to boot then shutdown and connect the 160GB drive and reboot. "searcher007" wrote in message ... My system now has two SATA internal hard drives-Western Digital 500 gb and a Western Digital 160 gb. I cloned a copy of my original hard onto the new 500 gb hard drive.BUT with both drives installed I could only boot from my original 160 gb hard drive. Obviously, I wanted to use the new hard drive as the Master and the original as the Slave for storage.But SATA doesn't accomodate this approach.NOW I could disconnect the original hard drive and boot from the new . I would not have a bacdk up\storage hard drive, however. I tried changing driving names through renaming by altering registry values. I could not rename the drives through MY COMPUTER\MANAGE\DISC DRIVES\RENAME LETTER OF DEVICE. The drop down menu didn't offer the letter "c" for the new drive and the only letter offered to select for my original drive was "C". The changing of names through altering registry values crashed my system. PRESENT STATUS OF MY SYSTEM: Boots and operates form new 500 GB disc drive. Original hard drive is recognized in Setup. HOWEVER, if I enable both drives to be run by SYSTEM BIOS as controller my computer won't boot. ERROR MESSAGE: No boot device. If I TURN OFF the SATA controller for the 160 GB disc drive then my computer boots up. The second hard drive (160 GB drive i want to use for back up) is not listed in My Computer or Device Manager.In the BOOT MENU I only have one SATA drive disc device listed to select as primary boot. I can select to boot from a floppy diskette, even though I don't have a floppy disc, or an IDE hard drive, even though I don't have such a hard drive. I have selected SATA hard drive as the only option (1) in the boot order. When I turn off the 160 GB secondary drive its system controller changes f from SYSTEM BIOS to unidentified SATA CONTROLLER. DELL DIMENSION 3100 -e310 BIOS Dell System DV051 version A04 Phoenix ROM BIOS plus version 1.10 A04 Any suggestions or help on how to resolve this problem are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Chris -- Many thanks and sincere gratitude to anyone who takes the time to answer my query. Sincerely, Chris There is no Master/Slave relationship when using SATA drives. The drive that's used to Boot from is set up in the BIOS settings on the only two machines I've ever worked on but I imagine they are all similar. Go to the Boot Order area of the BIOS and set the drive you want to boot from there. I think it'll work. Twayne` |
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"JS" @ wrote in message
The BIOS on one of my computers reports one drive as Master and the other a Slave. Really? Who makes your BIOS? I'm just curious. You can check any number of SATA drive sites/articles and they'll all tell you there is no Master and Slave relationship. Maybe they've done something unusual somehow. I know XP doesn't see them that way, so it has to be a function of the BIOS itself. Interesting. Cheers, Twayne "Twayne" wrote in message ... "JS" @ wrote in message Does your drive report which is the SATA Master and which is the Slave. Try reversing the SATA cables may do the trick. Start with only the 500GB connected and if you are able to boot then shutdown and connect the 160GB drive and reboot. "searcher007" wrote in message ... My system now has two SATA internal hard drives-Western Digital 500 gb and a Western Digital 160 gb. I cloned a copy of my original hard onto the new 500 gb hard drive.BUT with both drives installed I could only boot from my original 160 gb hard drive. Obviously, I wanted to use the new hard drive as the Master and the original as the Slave for storage.But SATA doesn't accomodate this approach.NOW I could disconnect the original hard drive and boot from the new . I would not have a bacdk up\storage hard drive, however. I tried changing driving names through renaming by altering registry values. I could not rename the drives through MY COMPUTER\MANAGE\DISC DRIVES\RENAME LETTER OF DEVICE. The drop down menu didn't offer the letter "c" for the new drive and the only letter offered to select for my original drive was "C". The changing of names through altering registry values crashed my system. PRESENT STATUS OF MY SYSTEM: Boots and operates form new 500 GB disc drive. Original hard drive is recognized in Setup. HOWEVER, if I enable both drives to be run by SYSTEM BIOS as controller my computer won't boot. ERROR MESSAGE: No boot device. If I TURN OFF the SATA controller for the 160 GB disc drive then my computer boots up. The second hard drive (160 GB drive i want to use for back up) is not listed in My Computer or Device Manager.In the BOOT MENU I only have one SATA drive disc device listed to select as primary boot. I can select to boot from a floppy diskette, even though I don't have a floppy disc, or an IDE hard drive, even though I don't have such a hard drive. I have selected SATA hard drive as the only option (1) in the boot order. When I turn off the 160 GB secondary drive its system controller changes f from SYSTEM BIOS to unidentified SATA CONTROLLER. DELL DIMENSION 3100 -e310 BIOS Dell System DV051 version A04 Phoenix ROM BIOS plus version 1.10 A04 Any suggestions or help on how to resolve this problem are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Chris -- Many thanks and sincere gratitude to anyone who takes the time to answer my query. Sincerely, Chris There is no Master/Slave relationship when using SATA drives. The drive that's used to Boot from is set up in the BIOS settings on the only two machines I've ever worked on but I imagine they are all similar. Go to the Boot Order area of the BIOS and set the drive you want to boot from there. I think it'll work. Twayne` |
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"JS" @ wrote in message The BIOS on one of my computers reports one drive as Master and the other a Slave. Really? Who makes your BIOS? I'm just curious. You can check any number of SATA drive sites/articles and they'll all tell you there is no Master and Slave relationship. Maybe they've done something unusual somehow. I know XP doesn't see them that way, so it has to be a function of the BIOS itself. Interesting. Cheers, Twayne "Twayne" wrote in message ... "JS" @ wrote in message Does your drive report which is the SATA Master and which is the Slave. Try reversing the SATA cables may do the trick. Start with only the 500GB connected and if you are able to boot then shutdown and connect the 160GB drive and reboot. "searcher007" wrote in message ... My system now has two SATA internal hard drives-Western Digital 500 gb and a Western Digital 160 gb. I cloned a copy of my original hard onto the new 500 gb hard drive.BUT with both drives installed I could only boot from my original 160 gb hard drive. Obviously, I wanted to use the new hard drive as the Master and the original as the Slave for storage.But SATA doesn't accomodate this approach.NOW I could disconnect the original hard drive and boot from the new . I would not have a bacdk up\storage hard drive, however. I tried changing driving names through renaming by altering registry values. I could not rename the drives through MY COMPUTER\MANAGE\DISC DRIVES\RENAME LETTER OF DEVICE. The drop down menu didn't offer the letter "c" for the new drive and the only letter offered to select for my original drive was "C". The changing of names through altering registry values crashed my system. PRESENT STATUS OF MY SYSTEM: Boots and operates form new 500 GB disc drive. Original hard drive is recognized in Setup. HOWEVER, if I enable both drives to be run by SYSTEM BIOS as controller my computer won't boot. ERROR MESSAGE: No boot device. If I TURN OFF the SATA controller for the 160 GB disc drive then my computer boots up. The second hard drive (160 GB drive i want to use for back up) is not listed in My Computer or Device Manager.In the BOOT MENU I only have one SATA drive disc device listed to select as primary boot. I can select to boot from a floppy diskette, even though I don't have a floppy disc, or an IDE hard drive, even though I don't have such a hard drive. I have selected SATA hard drive as the only option (1) in the boot order. When I turn off the 160 GB secondary drive its system controller changes f from SYSTEM BIOS to unidentified SATA CONTROLLER. DELL DIMENSION 3100 -e310 BIOS Dell System DV051 version A04 Phoenix ROM BIOS plus version 1.10 A04 Any suggestions or help on how to resolve this problem are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Chris -- Many thanks and sincere gratitude to anyone who takes the time to answer my query. Sincerely, Chris There is no Master/Slave relationship when using SATA drives. The drive that's used to Boot from is set up in the BIOS settings on the only two machines I've ever worked on but I imagine they are all similar. Go to the Boot Order area of the BIOS and set the drive you want to boot from there. I think it'll work. Twayne` |
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Gigabyte X38-DQ6 User's manual
South Bridge: 6 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATAII0, SATAII1, SATAII2, SATAII3, SATAII4, SATAII5) supporting up to 6 SATA 3Gb/s devices See page 41 of User's manual, near the bottom. -- JS http://www.pagestart.com "Twayne" wrote in message ... "JS" @ wrote in message The BIOS on one of my computers reports one drive as Master and the other a Slave. Really? Who makes your BIOS? I'm just curious. You can check any number of SATA drive sites/articles and they'll all tell you there is no Master and Slave relationship. Maybe they've done something unusual somehow. I know XP doesn't see them that way, so it has to be a function of the BIOS itself. Interesting. Cheers, Twayne "Twayne" wrote in message ... "JS" @ wrote in message Does your drive report which is the SATA Master and which is the Slave. Try reversing the SATA cables may do the trick. Start with only the 500GB connected and if you are able to boot then shutdown and connect the 160GB drive and reboot. "searcher007" wrote in message ... My system now has two SATA internal hard drives-Western Digital 500 gb and a Western Digital 160 gb. I cloned a copy of my original hard onto the new 500 gb hard drive.BUT with both drives installed I could only boot from my original 160 gb hard drive. Obviously, I wanted to use the new hard drive as the Master and the original as the Slave for storage.But SATA doesn't accomodate this approach.NOW I could disconnect the original hard drive and boot from the new . I would not have a bacdk up\storage hard drive, however. I tried changing driving names through renaming by altering registry values. I could not rename the drives through MY COMPUTER\MANAGE\DISC DRIVES\RENAME LETTER OF DEVICE. The drop down menu didn't offer the letter "c" for the new drive and the only letter offered to select for my original drive was "C". The changing of names through altering registry values crashed my system. PRESENT STATUS OF MY SYSTEM: Boots and operates form new 500 GB disc drive. Original hard drive is recognized in Setup. HOWEVER, if I enable both drives to be run by SYSTEM BIOS as controller my computer won't boot. ERROR MESSAGE: No boot device. If I TURN OFF the SATA controller for the 160 GB disc drive then my computer boots up. The second hard drive (160 GB drive i want to use for back up) is not listed in My Computer or Device Manager.In the BOOT MENU I only have one SATA drive disc device listed to select as primary boot. I can select to boot from a floppy diskette, even though I don't have a floppy disc, or an IDE hard drive, even though I don't have such a hard drive. I have selected SATA hard drive as the only option (1) in the boot order. When I turn off the 160 GB secondary drive its system controller changes f from SYSTEM BIOS to unidentified SATA CONTROLLER. DELL DIMENSION 3100 -e310 BIOS Dell System DV051 version A04 Phoenix ROM BIOS plus version 1.10 A04 Any suggestions or help on how to resolve this problem are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Chris -- Many thanks and sincere gratitude to anyone who takes the time to answer my query. Sincerely, Chris There is no Master/Slave relationship when using SATA drives. The drive that's used to Boot from is set up in the BIOS settings on the only two machines I've ever worked on but I imagine they are all similar. Go to the Boot Order area of the BIOS and set the drive you want to boot from there. I think it'll work. Twayne` |
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Problems with 2nd Internal Hard DRive Installation
Gigabyte X38-DQ6 User's manual
South Bridge: 6 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATAII0, SATAII1, SATAII2, SATAII3, SATAII4, SATAII5) supporting up to 6 SATA 3Gb/s devices See page 41 of User's manual, near the bottom. -- JS http://www.pagestart.com "Twayne" wrote in message ... "JS" @ wrote in message The BIOS on one of my computers reports one drive as Master and the other a Slave. Really? Who makes your BIOS? I'm just curious. You can check any number of SATA drive sites/articles and they'll all tell you there is no Master and Slave relationship. Maybe they've done something unusual somehow. I know XP doesn't see them that way, so it has to be a function of the BIOS itself. Interesting. Cheers, Twayne "Twayne" wrote in message ... "JS" @ wrote in message Does your drive report which is the SATA Master and which is the Slave. Try reversing the SATA cables may do the trick. Start with only the 500GB connected and if you are able to boot then shutdown and connect the 160GB drive and reboot. "searcher007" wrote in message ... My system now has two SATA internal hard drives-Western Digital 500 gb and a Western Digital 160 gb. I cloned a copy of my original hard onto the new 500 gb hard drive.BUT with both drives installed I could only boot from my original 160 gb hard drive. Obviously, I wanted to use the new hard drive as the Master and the original as the Slave for storage.But SATA doesn't accomodate this approach.NOW I could disconnect the original hard drive and boot from the new . I would not have a bacdk up\storage hard drive, however. I tried changing driving names through renaming by altering registry values. I could not rename the drives through MY COMPUTER\MANAGE\DISC DRIVES\RENAME LETTER OF DEVICE. The drop down menu didn't offer the letter "c" for the new drive and the only letter offered to select for my original drive was "C". The changing of names through altering registry values crashed my system. PRESENT STATUS OF MY SYSTEM: Boots and operates form new 500 GB disc drive. Original hard drive is recognized in Setup. HOWEVER, if I enable both drives to be run by SYSTEM BIOS as controller my computer won't boot. ERROR MESSAGE: No boot device. If I TURN OFF the SATA controller for the 160 GB disc drive then my computer boots up. The second hard drive (160 GB drive i want to use for back up) is not listed in My Computer or Device Manager.In the BOOT MENU I only have one SATA drive disc device listed to select as primary boot. I can select to boot from a floppy diskette, even though I don't have a floppy disc, or an IDE hard drive, even though I don't have such a hard drive. I have selected SATA hard drive as the only option (1) in the boot order. When I turn off the 160 GB secondary drive its system controller changes f from SYSTEM BIOS to unidentified SATA CONTROLLER. DELL DIMENSION 3100 -e310 BIOS Dell System DV051 version A04 Phoenix ROM BIOS plus version 1.10 A04 Any suggestions or help on how to resolve this problem are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Chris -- Many thanks and sincere gratitude to anyone who takes the time to answer my query. Sincerely, Chris There is no Master/Slave relationship when using SATA drives. The drive that's used to Boot from is set up in the BIOS settings on the only two machines I've ever worked on but I imagine they are all similar. Go to the Boot Order area of the BIOS and set the drive you want to boot from there. I think it'll work. Twayne` |
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Problems with 2nd Internal Hard DRive Installation
JS wrote:
Gigabyte X38-DQ6 User's manual South Bridge: 6 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATAII0, SATAII1, SATAII2, SATAII3, SATAII4, SATAII5) supporting up to 6 SATA 3Gb/s devices See page 41 of User's manual, near the bottom. When you top post, my newsreader drops everything after your signature. When you bottom post, the entire thread is copied to my reply. I'm not complaining, just explaining as to where the rest of the thread went in this reply. ;-) I was told that to set a HD to Master or Slave, there have to be jumpers on the HD and SATA drives don't have jumpers. My Giga-byte GA-MA770 Motherboard manual doesn't mention any Mater/Slave relationship when it comes to SATA drives. I'm certainly no SATA drive expert. -- JD.. |
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Problems with 2nd Internal Hard DRive Installation
JS wrote:
Gigabyte X38-DQ6 User's manual South Bridge: 6 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors (SATAII0, SATAII1, SATAII2, SATAII3, SATAII4, SATAII5) supporting up to 6 SATA 3Gb/s devices See page 41 of User's manual, near the bottom. When you top post, my newsreader drops everything after your signature. When you bottom post, the entire thread is copied to my reply. I'm not complaining, just explaining as to where the rest of the thread went in this reply. ;-) I was told that to set a HD to Master or Slave, there have to be jumpers on the HD and SATA drives don't have jumpers. My Giga-byte GA-MA770 Motherboard manual doesn't mention any Mater/Slave relationship when it comes to SATA drives. I'm certainly no SATA drive expert. -- JD.. |
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