trying to add IDE drives to a SATA system

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mcf57

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I recently got a Samsung SSD drive for my desktop PC. Installed Windows 7 from scratch on to it and all is working good. The PC is an older desktop, but it works fine for my needs. It has 4 SATA ports and 2 IDE channels.

I have two spare IDE drives (120GB and 200GB). One just has data, but one was has an old XP operating system on it. I want to simply wipe out this drive with the old XP on it, but the PC doesn't seem to let me boot into my regular SSD drive (w/ W7 on it). Instead, it attempts to boot from this older IDE drive that has XP on it.

I checked the BIOS settings and while there is an area that lets me change the boot sequence, its simply "hard drive", "CD Rom" and "Removable". It doesn't allow any change in the TYPE of hard drive to boot from.

The motherboard is a Biostar MCP6P-M2+. Any suggestions on how to make it bypass the IDE drive for booting up. Once I get into Windows 7, I then plan to format both of these older IDE drives.
 
You need to locate the Hard Drive Boot Priority section of the BIOS and set your SSD as the primary boot drive.
 
There will be a separate area where you choose which hdd to boot to. It's under boot sequence and floppy setup menu, just looked in the manual.

Called hard disk boot priority
 
Try repeatedly pressing f8 during boot to access the boot manager.
If it doesn't work try the other f keys.. It differs from mobo to mobo
 
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