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Originally Posted by lady_lunar My MB allows you to select boot device priority (cd rom, lan, hard disk, removable, etc) and then set the drive priority (as of now, IDE, then SATA). It has no problem detecting that it is a SATA and it all worked perfectly before. The SATA is a Western Digital, I used the Hitachi one cause it was the first one to come up in google - I didnt think it mattered? And yes, the SATA is the boot drive, Ive tried it before floppy and cd, after, etc etc, still nothing unless my IDE gets boot priority. I didnt even bother installing a floppy before til now, but yes I have tried it in pretty much all the orders.

Have you tried to removing ide drive and booting from the sata drive? It sounds like a setting in the bios. After removing the ide repair the mbr on the sata and see what happens. Aso could it be possible the bios needs updating to a later version to correct a potential boot problem?