Vista with SATA vs IDE

[kev7555]

Hello. A customer brought me their new HP Vista computer and wants his old IDE hard drive installed as a slave.

The new Vista machine has a 500GB SATA drive as the Master. When I install the IDE hard drive (connected to the one and only IDE socket on the board) I get a boot failure. I can go into the boot menu and manually select the SATA drive for boot which will work once, but when the computer is restarted, it goes back to trying to boot from IDE drive.

Went into BIOS and it will allow me to select the SATA for boot but not save it as the first boot device.

IDE drive is on 80 pin cable, jumpered to slave, hooked to the center connector of the cable. Have tried it on the end connector, jumpered as master, etc... still same problem.

Also, device manager sees the drive and will let me format the drive but it does not show up in the "computer" file (as in "my computer" in XP).

TIA

-Kev

[kev7555]

Update...


There WAS a parameter in BIOS to bring the sata drive up to #1 in the boot order, I just missed it before, so now it boots fine from the sata drive but Vista still sees the IDE storage drive as 149 GB in disk management but only sees 39 GB in "computer".

Thanks,

-Kev

OK, all issues solved with a little persistence in disk management. The partition problem was solved by simply deleting the new volume, then setting up a new partition through Vista's wizard, where you can allocate whatever amount you wish as the primary partition. It now sees the entire volume.

[Panama Red]

This prolly would have been easier with less beer and if you got up off the floor!

[kev7555]

True story!!!

But I was sober this time. Hmmm... maybe that's the problem.