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OS: XP SP3
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[SOLVED] Making a SATA Drive Slave to a PATA Drive
I have lost access to my Sata Drive and have installed XP on a 20 GB Pata drive to try and extract some of the more important info, but when I connect the Sata Drive it takes over and won't allow XP to open from the other drive. I just continue to get the fault I started with. I was thinking that if the Pata Drive was able to display the contents of the Sata Drive in "My Computer" I could retrieve some info that way. Can anyone help please?
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08-02-2009, 04:03 PM
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Re: Making a SATA Drive Slave to a PATA Drive
Set the boot order to boot to the PATA drive first, make sure the pata is the master on the primary IDE. It is possible the PATA is trying to boot, if it was installed on other hardware, then Windows is unlikely to boot - windows build the hardware abstraction layer based on the hardware. If you installed with the SATA still in place, then it was still being seen as the primary drive. Install Windows on the PATA drive with the SATA disconnected, then power down, reconnect the SATA and boot back to the PATA. Again make sure the PATA is set first in the BIOS boot order.
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