Trouble installing a second drive...

[btf1]

I have had a 80gig Seagate SATA drive in my PC for around a year. 80gig is not enough these days . I bought a 120gig seagate for storing my larger files that I dont access daily (ie Anime Music Videos and my LD/MAME games ). Since my first drive is a SATA I can not daisy-chain the drives so my second drive plugs in alone. Both drives show up in bios but when I go to set boot priority the SATA drive does not show up on the list. Once I uninstall the new drive the SATA is there. Why would having 2 drives remove one from the priority list? How do I make my SATA my primary drive? I have my SATA set as the master and the new drive as the slave. I can access both drives when I boot up with the new drive but there purposes would be reversed. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[glc]

I'm a bit confused.

Are you saying the new 120gb drive is a standard IDE drive, not a SATA drive? If so, how is the new drive configured - which controller and jumpered/cabled how? What other IDE devices do you have and how are they jumpered/cabled and on which controller?

What model is your motherboard?

How are you booting with the new drive? Did you install Windows on it also? You don't do it that way.

How do you set a SATA drive to master when there are no jumpers?

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To install an IDE drive in an existing system with a bootable SATA drive, you just put it on one of the IDE controllers, cabled and jumpered correctly, start Windows, and use Disk Management to partition and format it, you don't install Windows on it.

[btf1]

Thanks for our response. I finaly found an option in bios to switch the HD boot sequence. I only loaded windows on the second drive when I couldnt get both running at the same time. MY SATA is a master drive by default so it was just a matter of setting the IDE to slave. Anyway, probably not text book but everything is running great now . THanks again.