Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - Sata Hard Drive Maxtor Diamond Max 21 (250 GB)

Tumbleweed36 · 11-25-2008, 04:46 AM

Did you enable Sata in the bios?

Have you set it to operate as IDE?

Do you have it on the right connectors?

Do you have your boot order set to:

cdrom - 1st
Floppy - 2nd
Hard Drive - 3rd

Do you have the disk priority set to have the disk you want to boot from as FIRST in that list?

11-25-2008, 04:46 AM	#3 (permalink)
Tumbleweed36 Asst Manager Hardware Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 19,462 OS: XP Professional	Re: Sata Hard Drive Maxtor Diamond Max 21 (250 GB) Did you enable Sata in the bios? Have you set it to operate as IDE? Do you have it on the right connectors? Do you have your boot order set to: cdrom - 1st Floppy - 2nd Hard Drive - 3rd Do you have the disk priority set to have the disk you want to boot from as FIRST in that list? __________________ ---------- 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.