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CTPhil · 11-25-2008, 06:32 AM

I used Seagate DiscWizard to clone a SATA drive to an IDE drive on my Dell 4600. I set the BIOS to boot from the IDE, (SATA is removed) and the BIOS does see the drive.

But on boot, no drives are found. I press esc to continue booting, and am given the choice of F1 (boot) or F2 (Bios). When I press F1, it boots as it should.

But what can I do to get it to boot unattended? It also seems to take longer than before.

Is this a MBR issue? Does Windows create a different boot.ini depending on the drive type? Or is it something completely different?

Any help will be much appreciated.

11-25-2008, 06:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
CTPhil Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 21 OS: xp home sp2	Booting problem with cloned IDE drive I used Seagate DiscWizard to clone a SATA drive to an IDE drive on my Dell 4600. I set the BIOS to boot from the IDE, (SATA is removed) and the BIOS does see the drive. But on boot, no drives are found. I press esc to continue booting, and am given the choice of F1 (boot) or F2 (Bios). When I press F1, it boots as it should. But what can I do to get it to boot unattended? It also seems to take longer than before. Is this a MBR issue? Does Windows create a different boot.ini depending on the drive type? Or is it something completely different? Any help will be much appreciated.