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Help: How can I change the boot order?
Tuesday, 23 January, 2007
I have an Intel motherboard with a SATA drive already connected and booting up the system fine.
I'm also trying to fit a Quantum 12G IDE HDD to the IDE cable so that I can download some old stored data.
Whenever I fit the drive the BIOS sees the IDE connected disk first and I can't change this in the BOOT.
Could you advise me how I go about this, I only wish to download this and then discard the drive.
Ian , , Australia
 I'm sure some readers will know exactly what to do, but here are the things I'd try
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- Check in the motherboard manual or on the manufacturer's web site to see if there's a BIOS setup setting you haven't seen or understood.
- Connect the IDE disk as a slave to an optical drive. That is, on the same cable, but with the jumpers set to make it a slave.
- Insert the IDE drive in one of those external drive cases. Probably a USB2 version would suit you best. Copy the files you need. Then keep using it as a backup drive.
- Get on to the motherboard manufacturer's web site and ask them what you can do.
- Give the disk to a mate and ask him/her to copy the contents to a couple of DVD disks.
Paul Zucker
 Reader solutions
JCPosted: 31/05/2008 re: Help: How can I change the boot order? Maybe the reason ' why ' the IDE H/D gets seen first, is that it is still set as " Master "....not as "Slave " !?!
This computer was originally set up... with a SATA H/D , as " Master " .
Change the SATA , to " Slave ".
Change (if need be , if it is not already set up as " Master ") the IDE H/D to " Master ".
Re-connect IDE cable .
Boot up computer .
The BIOS should load H/D's , in proper order , without the need to be changed . dazzaPosted: 24/01/2007 re: Help: How can I change the boot order? Hey Ian.
in the bios you can set not only the boot order like hdd, cdrom or floppy first but also the device in that section. So if you have two hard drives or cdroms you can set which drive runs first. then you should also be able to set whether the sata or ide drives are primary as well. it takes a bit to first find these changes in some systems. I know the Intel boards have a jumper on them to allow for configuration just check your manual. dazza |