Re: S-ATA & P-ATA booting
- From: "peter" <peterk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:08:42 -0700
If you have a look into the BIOS settings you should see the various options for booting.
Not too familiar with the 945 chipset but my Nvidea chipset mobo Bios allows me to set either PATA or SATA drive to boot from as well as drive boot order...1st choice. .2nd choice.
If you are contemplating adding the 1TB HD to the new system and just dual booting in that manner you would need to enter the BIOS each time to chose which HD to boot from. With a HD from another older system installed in this manner all of the drivers required would be missing/different...a repair install of XP would be necessary.
This can be done with either the SATA disconnected which would result in each drive (SATA and PATA) having its own Master Boot record and you make the choice via BIOS of which drive to boot from.
or with the SATA drive connected and I believe then XP would create the Dual Boot on the SATA drive and the choice for which OS to boot into would come up as part of the normal booting process.Be aware that this repair installation might ask for the SATA drivers for your mobo....and will only look for them on a Floppy drive.
hope this helps
peter
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"barrowhill" <barrowhill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:D5996310-5D98-452A-BA9C-E9685D021075@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've just taken delivery of new PC for my son. Confirmed and checked all in
working order and opened case up to have a nose around
PC is based on foxconn 945P7MD mobo running Dual core Pentium-D. My son's
old PC is P-ATA only and he has 1TB of disc capacity potentially available.
The new PC has 4 x S-ATA connectors with one used (160GB XP pro installed).
The board also has 2 x P-ATA (IDE). One IDE has a DVD writer connected
leaving space for say another DVD device and a couple of HDD's in
master/slave configuration.
How is the boot order specified if requiring to boot from P-ATA and not
S-ATA ???? and is it possible to set for dual boot; first P-ATA then S-ATA
(or vice versa)
Advice appreciated
.
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