SATA Problem

[Furton]

My friend has brought along his SATA drive (Seagate 120GB) because he installed something which seems to have messed up WinXP and he can't even start up in safe mode.

He's brought the drive over for me to connect to my board (Leadtek Delux) so he can backup his stuff and then format it. But when I connect the drive to my board (I've got 2 PATA drives) windows will crash whilst loading and I'll get the BSOD.

Any ideas why it's causing this? Could it be booting off the SATA drive instead of my PATA drives and causing the same crash? If so how do I change boot sequency e.t.c

[jon bda]

I think that SATA takes priority whilst booting over IDE, no matter what the boot sequence is set too?.

[Rory]

Humm, I have both SATA and IDE and my SATA boots up first. Just have a look around in the bios for the boot order and set primary to the IDE. Also you may have to change the IDE drive thingy at the back I think...?

[Ice Kay]

Did you install the sata drivers during installation of windows ?

and make sure you're booting from sata in bios.

[unrealrocks]

On some SATA boards there is another BIOS for SATA ... you have to watch the BIOS screens carefullly and press the right thing but that'll give you options of booting etc.!

[Furton]

Yes, the SATA drivers are installed in WinXP and when the PC boots up it detects the SATA HD. The strange part is that it comes up with my Dual boot options then seems to boot off the SATA drive for WinXP, which is odd, or that's what it's trying to do I think, then crashes.

In the BIOS I can't see any option to make it boot off the IDE Drive or give it preferance. Any more suggestions?