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Connecting IDE and SATA hard disks together

Last answer on Oct 31, 2009 11:17:22 am GMT javed, on Oct 28, 2009 9:24:27 am GMT 
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Hello,

I am currently using 120 gb IDE hard disk.

My motherboard is also having 4 slots for SATA hard disks.

Now I have purchased new 500 gb SATA hard disk and connected it to motherboard on SATA 1 slot with the help of adapter with my current hard disk intact.

So now I have two hard disks (one IDE 120 gb and one SATA 500 gb both with Windows XP installed), but when I starts my system directly old IDE hard disk get detected and system get started.

Because of this I disconnected my IDE hard disk from my motherboard and kept only new SATA hard disk and started my system and system started successfully. (I.e. SATA hard disk working successfully individually)

But I want both the hard disk in my system with IDE hard disk as primary hard disk.

Please advise me what to do?
Please let me know if you need any more information.

Thanks,
Javed

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dancedhall, on Oct 28, 2009 1:08:58 pm GMT

Hi there,

you cannot set two hard drives as primary

either one is slave and the rest cs

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 javed, on Oct 31, 2009 11:17:22 am GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the reply but I don't want both the hard disk as primary.

I want IDE hard disk as primary and SATA hard disk as slave.

One more question can't I have Windows XP installed on both the hard disk i.e. IDE as well as SATA, for both the hard disk to work.

Is it like that out of two hard disk only Primary one should have Windows XP installed and other hard disk should not have Windows XP..

Do I need to remove the Windows XP from SATA hard disk to connect it as slave.

Thanks,
Javed

   
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