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

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..

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..

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

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

"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`

"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`

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`

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`

"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`

"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`

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`

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`

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..

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..