Re: 2 SATA drives and 1 IDE drive Not Recognized

You need to set the boot order in the BIOS...IDE before SATA or if you BIOS
is like mine you can pick a specific drive as the boot drive.
Then when you boot from the XP CD and do a new installation be sure to pick
the right drive.
You also could disconnect the SATA before you install XP onto the IDE
drive....making sure that the boot order is set to IDE before SATA.When the
Installation is complete,reconnect the SATA and you reboot into XP IDE you
can then format XP off the SATA.
peter
"Jeff Y." <schematherapy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1172882716.059274.128150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
OK, thanks for the suggestions. I used the SATA drivers, and now
Windows can see all 3 drives.

New problem: Before I posted here, I had tried installing Windows on
the SATA drive by removing the IDE drive. This worked fine. Now I want
to install Windows on the IDE drive, which was my original goal. But
when I go through Windows setup (using the SATA drivers) to install on
the IDE drive, as soon as the computer reboots, it automatically boots
into the SATA drive. Thus I cannot complete the Windows installation.

How can I boot into the IDE drive? How can I get Windows to finish the
installation on the IDE drive? Do I have to delete the Windows
installation on the SATA drive? Do I have to change the boot
configuration or the partition types?

Again, any help is appreciated.



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