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    Computer boot help please.

    My computer came with a 250gb sata drive, well about 2 years ago I bought a 74gb sata drive to use as well. I've never been able to get them both hooked up right. I ended up using the 74gb for gaming and the 250gb for everything else. Right now I switch the power cord between the two drives depending on what one I want to boot from. If I plug them both in it boots from the 250gb with the 74gb as a slave. I don't really game on my computer anymore so I want to run them both but boot from the 74gb and run the 250gb as a slave. So how do I get it to boot from the other one? I'm probably missing something really easy but I can't figure it out. In the 'old days' you used to just switch the jumpers around. Thanks much!

    Edit: I did try searching google too. That was all way over my head with raid talk.
    Scott
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    Re: Computer boot help please.

    Because SATA is a direct connection between the HDD and the Motherboard, you have to connect your main SATA HDD to SATA1 plug and your storage SATA HDD will be in SATA2 or SATA3 or SATA4.

    On the BIOS, under Boot, put as your main boot device the 74GB hard drive.

    Another thing you can do is to delete the OS on the 250GB sata drive. If you don't have that much info on the 250GB and you think you have space on the 74GB drive to put everything important on one drive and format the 250GB drive, of course then passing everything back, could also solve your problem

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      Re: Computer boot help please.

      So really just switching the cable would probably work. Well that's easy. lol

      I checked in the BIOS but it only listed 'hard drive' so I couldn't pick one or the other. Unless there was a more advanced option.

      The plan is to reformat the 74gb and start clean with installing all my software. Then dump the 250gb on a external and reformat that. Then use the 250 as my data/storage drive. I've had problems with the external so I don't trust storing anything on that too long. Plus the 10,000 rpm 74gb is a Western Digital Raptor and boots so much faster.

      I guess I'll try switching the cables first, that sounds like the easy answer.

      Oh, and I'm going to treat myself to another 2gb of ram, I only have 1gb now.

      Thanks much Francis! After two years I'm looking forward to getting this all working right.
      Scott

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        Re: Computer boot help please.

        Sweet! That worked!

        I just switched the cables on the motherboard and it booted from the 74gb. Now why didn't I think of that. lol

        Thanks again!
        Scott

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