clockworkowl
Joined: 23 Jul 2006
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Sun Jul 23, 2006 4:37 pm Post subject:
SATA & PATA HDs Need Advice! |
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I have a Dell Dimension XPS (3 gHz) I purchased about 2 years ago. It had a 120 GB SATA (Seagate Barracuda Model ST3120026A8) hard drive in it. It came preinstalled with windows XP. Yesterday, I ran into a problem where I couldn't get the it to boot. I got the a blue screen advising the "POOL" something wasn't working. (sorry I didn't save the message).
Anyway, being the confident amateur techie I am, I promptly went out and purchased a PATA hard drive(Seagate Barracuda Model ST3120026A).
This was my plan:
1. remove the old hard drive
2. install the new hard drive on the primary IDE and install the OS on the new drive
3. reinstall the old drive as a slave and then recover all of my important pictures, etc.
4. reformat the old drive and use it for extra capacity
Steps 1 and 2 worked out fine.
Here is the problem. I have the PATA drive set as master in the BIOS and have fooled with the other settings several times (with several scary close calls that could have led to my computer becomign a very expensive boat anchor). So far, I have not been able to get the computer to boot from the PATA when the SATA drive is connected. I really don't know how to get this to work.
From my research so far, it appears that the computer looks for the first drive with an OS, and boots from that. Apparently, regardless of my BIOS settings (granted- I didn't try them ALL), it is finding the corrupted drive every time and ignores the PATA drive.
I need HELP!
Any ideas? |
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