boot problems with slave drive


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    boot problems with slave drive


    I'm trying to save data from my old hard drive but when I go to boot up, the drives conflict and windows 7 doesnt load eventhough I've disabled the slave drive in bios boot menu, any help?
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    Looking at specs, you have one Sata HD & one IDE HD. IDE Hd will boot first.
    Reset your BIOS so IDE HD's are not bootable.
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    I went into BIOS and disabled everything on the boot drive besides the SATA HD, (i.e. the ATA HD and the external HD), also, the ATA HD is controlled through a SATA controller, (no IDE ports on motherboard)
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    So, is it working? My guess is that you're likely NOT going to be able to boot from the SATA drive because it's using an add-on controller card. I had a similar problem with an older PC that had limited SATA ports and when I added a controller card, I could not boot from any drive connected to the controller card.

    But, these things tend to be card-specific. If you have info on the card, check it to see if there's a way to load the card driver so that it can be bootable.
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    boot problems with slave drive


    I've finally got it to where I can boot windows 7 but now when I go into disk management, it says I have to initialize the disk first, but when I click initialize, it's unable to perform the task

    to get it to boot windows 7, I unplugged the ATA drive, booted to windows, disabled the RAID controller, shut down, plugged the drive back in, rebooted windows, then enabled the RAID card. Now I'm in, I just can't access the data on the drive without being able to initialize it
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  6. Posts : 1,127
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    t357f said:
    Now I'm in, I just can't access the data on the drive without being able to initialize it
    I guess the first question should be whether the IDE drive is jumpered to master? If it is, you could always use an IDE -->USB adapter or enclosure.

    James
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    Mark Phelps said:
    So, is it working? My guess is that you're likely NOT going to be able to boot from the SATA drive because it's using an add-on controller card. I had a similar problem with an older PC that had limited SATA ports and when I added a controller card, I could not boot from any drive connected to the controller card.

    But, these things tend to be card-specific. If you have info on the card, check it to see if there's a way to load the card driver so that it can be bootable.
    Doesn't the card need to have a bios to boot?

    James
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