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IDE HD boot / SATA HD connected - DELL GX270

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eyal - 24 Jan 2011 à 11:04
jack4rall Posts 6428 Registration date Sunday 6 June 2010 Status Moderator Last seen 16 July 2020 - 17 May 2011 à 14:03
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
30 Jan 2011 à 18:46
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
eyal
31 Jan 2011 à 02:01
thank you! but I have been told that on SATA drives there is no option to define Master/slave..
eperezp
17 May 2011 à 09:45
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 ?
jack4rall Posts 6428 Registration date Sunday 6 June 2010 Status Moderator Last seen 16 July 2020
17 May 2011 à 14:03
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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