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Tumbleweed36 · 04-10-2008, 09:18 AM

You don't need to worry about master and slave with the Sata drive. Master/slave setting are more to do with IDE drives.

All you have to do if you want to use the IDE drive as the Master drive with your OS on there is go to the Bios and enter the area called Boot area. Then, go down to the Hard Drive Priority area and set the drive you want to boot from as First in that list. In this case, that would be the IDE drive. NOw, the Sata should just be another drive on your system you can use.

I am not sure if that is what you are wanting or asking, so if that doesn't answer your question, please post back and we will take another look at the issue.

04-10-2008, 09:18 AM	#2 (permalink)
Tumbleweed36 Asst Manager Hardware Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 19,640 OS: XP Professional	Re: Can SATA Drives be lsaves to IDE You don't need to worry about master and slave with the Sata drive. Master/slave setting are more to do with IDE drives. All you have to do if you want to use the IDE drive as the Master drive with your OS on there is go to the Bios and enter the area called Boot area. Then, go down to the Hard Drive Priority area and set the drive you want to boot from as First in that list. In this case, that would be the IDE drive. NOw, the Sata should just be another drive on your system you can use. I am not sure if that is what you are wanting or asking, so if that doesn't answer your question, please post back and we will take another look at the issue. __________________ ---------- I don't receive email notifications of replies to subscribed threads. (Internet provider policy) Therefore, if I don't respond to your post within 24 hours, please send me a reminder PM and include the link to your thread. Last edited by Tumbleweed36; 04-10-2008 at 09:20 AM.