Install SATA DVD Drive with IDE HDD

[rhydiansmith]

Hi
I just bought a samsung SATA DVD drive, and I tried to install it in my pc with 2 IDE HDD's. My mobo has 4 SATA ports, it's an epox 4pda5+ mobo. It's the only SATA device I've ever tried Installing. After plugging in the data and power cable to the drive, I turned on my PC and I got the message:

Verifying DMI POOL data.....
DISK BOOT FAILIURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.

I can't boot any of my HDDs and nothing is working. If I remove the DVD drive then everything works again.

What am I doing wrong?????

 

[Pyree]

Change your boot priority on your mobo from sata drive to the ide drives, or disable boot from sata drive.

 

[rhydiansmith]

There are no SATA options in my bios! Apart from 'integrated SIL3114 ' which is enabled.

 

[Pyree]

No boot options?! I doubt that. Disabling the controller is different from disabling a drives or changing the boot order of drives. Look through it carefully.

 

[vvhocare5]

This option wont be under SATA - it will be under Boot Options or Boot Priority - which is usually on the last options screen.

 

[rhydiansmith]

The Boot Priority only shows options like CD-ROM, HARDDRIVE, FLOPPY etc. No SATA. I've tried putting the HDD first but it still doesnt work. And my boot order only shows IDE drives.

 

[Pyree]

disable cd-rom in boot option

 

[rhydiansmith]

Tried that. Still desnt work.

 

[Pyree]

Running out of idea. Run a window installation repair from DVD. Also try update bios.

 

[rhydiansmith]

I've updated the BIOS but it still doesn't work. I triednto reinstall windows, but strangely the hard drives are not recognised or useable by windows.

 

[turk_1000]

This is an older motherboard and most likely the SATA ports only support hard drives.