booting from sata while master ide hdd is installed

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Im trying to get an old hard disk to work.
It need to boot from the sata drive and use the ide hdd as a secondary drive. I cant seem to get it to work. I removed the jumper to put it in slave mode but now the bios wont detect it. If i put the jumper back on cs enabled it will try to boot from it. But it is detected in the bios while its in cs enabled.
Can you help me?

Thanks in advance
 
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Since you have not included the model of your motherboard or computer if OEM it would be difficult to say. Take a look at your manual and determine if you can use both IDE and SATA drives at the same time, some early models wouldn't, or perhaps you need to make a change in the bios -- like the boot order of your drives.
 
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its a ASUS M2A-VM HDMI i've changed the boot order but it still seems to try to boot from the IDE. i think the IDE HDD is a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB. the sata HDD is a Maxtor DiamondMax 21 320GB SATA2. i just need to get some photo's off the IDE one.
 
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Under the boot disk priority selection, once you select HDD, according to your manual you should be able to select between IDE and SATA (section 2.6.3).

If you have an IDE CD drive set the HDD to slave and put it on the middle of the ribbon that the CD drive uses and the CD will be the master and on the end of the ribbon.
 
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my cd drive is a sata one so i can only put the IDE in master but it will automatically boot from it. i will take a look at the selection but i dont remember i've seen the option.
 
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The motherboard doesnt show the capacity etc. Of the drive. I put it in the second slot of the boot priority but its very slow through the ide detection before it goes to the bios. And after it went through the detection it will either go to the bios if del.is pressed or it will show a blinking - in the top left and sit there doing nothing. Does this mean the ide hdd is broken so it cant boot from the sata while its connected?
 
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No, I don't that it is your drive. Most likely it is just an issue that a lot of the older boards that support both IDE and SATA experienced.

Is your bios updated to the latest available, 2302 or 5001? That may allow you to select between the drives.
 
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i haven't updated the bios yet but i cant find anything about the IDE + SATA problem in the changelog of the bios versions. will a IDE to SATA adapter work for this problem? something like this: IDE to SATA ATA 100/133 Serial HDD CD DVD Converter Adapter + Power & SATA Cable
 
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The changelogs don't include all the changes, and the bios figure from the manual that showed a selection choice of drives could be from a later version, but I've used those adapters before with success and the price is right so worth a try IMO.
 
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i will check the bios version and update it but if it doesn't work i will buy the adapter and i will let you know if it fixed the problem.
 
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adapter is on its way it will arrive somewhere between 13th of january and 4th of february. i will update here when i get the adapter.
 
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The adapter just came in the mail. I tried it but the drive isn't detected by my motherboard. i do hear some kind of clicking noise from the laser pin inside it. Sounds like its loose or something or its grinding over something. I'm thinking about buying the exact same drive but new and then try to put the disk inside to the newer drive and see if it works. have you done this before or do you know how to do this?
 
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