Re: New SATA Drive causes Win XP not to boot

paul welter · 05-03-2008, 10:51 PM

hi guys,

find the topic interesting, by the way i have four sata sockets on my m/board, i have one sata hdd and two dvd burners,is there any paticular order these drives have to be connected or can they be connected in any order ?
http://www.techsupportforum.com/imag...ies/1-grin.gif

thanks for your help

**Deleted090308** · 05-04-2008, 03:59 AM

Welcome to TSF.

That depends on the motherboard.
What board do you have?

paul welter · 05-05-2008, 04:26 AM

thanks for your quick reply, its a gigabyte ga-945gcm-s2l

**Deleted090308** · 05-05-2008, 04:38 AM

Sounds like the new drive has become the first HDD in BIOS boot priority.
See if you can change that in BIOS.

05-03-2008, 10:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
paul welter Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2 OS: xp sp2	Re: New SATA Drive causes Win XP not to boot hi guys, find the topic interesting, by the way i have four sata sockets on my m/board, i have one sata hdd and two dvd burners,is there any paticular order these drives have to be connected or can they be connected in any order ? http://www.techsupportforum.com/imag...ies/1-grin.gif thanks for your help

05-04-2008, 03:59 AM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: New SATA Drive causes Win XP not to boot Welcome to TSF. That depends on the motherboard. What board do you have?

05-05-2008, 04:26 AM	#3 (permalink)
paul welter Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2 OS: xp sp2	Re: New SATA Drive causes Win XP not to boot thanks for your quick reply, its a gigabyte ga-945gcm-s2l

05-05-2008, 04:38 AM	#4 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: New SATA Drive causes Win XP not to boot Sounds like the new drive has become the first HDD in BIOS boot priority. See if you can change that in BIOS.