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IDE HD boot / SATA HD connected - DELL GX270

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eyal - Jan 24, 2011 at 11:04 AM
jack4rall Posts 6428 Registration date Sunday June 6, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen July 16, 2020 - May 17, 2011 at 02:03 PM
Hello,

Please Help, I have DELL GX270 running winXP with 2 x DVD on slave IDE
and 2 x IDE HD on the master IDE cable.

Now I have connected 1 x SATA HD and when I boot the PC it goes always to
boot from the SATA HD (which has win7). it is impossibleto change on the BIOS to
boot from IDE cause the SATA got C: letter.
if I press F12 I can boot from IDE but only one time till next auto boot....

The SATA is 640GB and I need it as a storage HD and not the system.

How to make it works?

Thanks.
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Arty
Jan 30, 2011 at 06:46 PM
Change the pin settings on the sata drive from master to slave you will need to look it up for that particular drive cause the pin settings are different on every driver but it would force it to slave if you did that
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eyal
Jan 31, 2011 at 02:01 AM
thank you! but I have been told that on SATA drives there is no option to define Master/slave..
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eperezp
May 17, 2011 at 09:45 AM
Hi, I have the same problem. I want to boot from the IDE drive, but the GX270 boot from the SATA drive all the time. Can you help me ?
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jack4rall Posts 6428 Registration date Sunday June 6, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen July 16, 2020
May 17, 2011 at 02:03 PM
Hello,
Try this 1
Go to BIOS --> Now set your "IDE Drive" as first boot device --> Save the settings and exit from BIOS.
Good Luck
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