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SATA AND PATA boot problem

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Asif - Feb 13, 2010 at 08:54 AM
xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - Feb 13, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Hello,
i have a 160 GB sata hard drive, and 160 Gb Pata dard drive. i want to use them both together. SATA doesnot have cable select pins and jumpers. while i have put PATA drive on cable select, connecting it with the slave IDE cable. The Bios setting does recognize it,, but it boots from the PATA drive.
\I cannot change the preference of hard drives in BIOS setting. I want my pc to boot from the new SATA drive. Any ideas?
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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
Feb 13, 2010 at 12:44 PM
If you can't change the hard drive boot order then you have no other option.

A work-around --You can buy an external USB hard drive enclosure and convert the PATA drive to USB.

Good Luck

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