Bios won't recognize hard drives

run4it · 01-18-2008, 10:34 AM

I just built a new computer and i wanted to keep my old 80 Gb ide hard drives from the old one. The new motherboard only has one ide port so i was forced to buy an pci ide expansion card to use my hard drives. because of cable length i cannot put my dvd drives on the expansion card so i'm forced to put my hard drives on it instead. but i cannot get the bios to recognize the hard drives. i'd like to install 32 bit xp to them and use 64 bit on my new sata drive. once in windows the ide drives are detected and fully functional. So how do i get my bios to recognize and boot from them so i can run a dual os?

Vipernitrox · 01-18-2008, 01:25 PM

booting from an ide/sata/scsi adapter is a big pain in the ass.
What mobo are you using?

01-18-2008, 10:34 AM	#1 (permalink)
run4it Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Age: 22 Posts: 238	Bios won't recognize hard drives I just built a new computer and i wanted to keep my old 80 Gb ide hard drives from the old one. The new motherboard only has one ide port so i was forced to buy an pci ide expansion card to use my hard drives. because of cable length i cannot put my dvd drives on the expansion card so i'm forced to put my hard drives on it instead. but i cannot get the bios to recognize the hard drives. i'd like to install 32 bit xp to them and use 64 bit on my new sata drive. once in windows the ide drives are detected and fully functional. So how do i get my bios to recognize and boot from them so i can run a dual os? __________________ Intel Quad-Core Q6600 G0 2.4 GHz Kentsfield XFX nForce 680i SLI Socket 775 Motherboard XFX GeForce 8600GTS 256 MB PCI-E G.Skill 4GB DDR2 SDRAM 800 MHz 320 GB Seagate Sata, 1 TB Seagate Sata Xp Pro x32

01-18-2008, 01:25 PM	#2 (permalink)
Vipernitrox Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Hilversum, NL Age: 21 Posts: 1,095	booting from an ide/sata/scsi adapter is a big pain in the ass. What mobo are you using? __________________ Antec 1200 DFI LanParty LT X48-T2R Intel Q6700 @ 3.33ghz Kingston 4x1 GB DDR2 HyperX @ 800mhz 4-4-4-12 Sapphire Toxic HD 4870 1GB 150Gb WD Velociraptor 10K rpm 3x1Tb Samsung Spinpoint in Raid 5 WC set: EK Supreme Plexi + TFC Xchanger 240 + Laing MCP 355 Pic

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