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12-13-2008, 10:40 PM
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Boot from PATA?
I have two hard drives in my computer. One is SATA and the other is PATA. Is there a way to boot from the PATA drive? In the bios, I can choose a boot device priority, but there is only one option for a hard disk and that results in the computer booting from the SATA drive. The motherboard is an ASUS A8N5X.
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12-13-2008, 10:53 PM
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Often times, BIOS's will "hide" certain drives in the boot priority menu. I am not familiar with your particular motherboard BIOS, but check the boot menu/settings tab if available to see if the PATA drive is disabled as a boot option. The PATA drive, regardless of whether it is actually bootable or not, should show up on the boot menu as an option.
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