[help] SATA Drives

[$h0ck3r]

Hello, im just after some help, my hard drive recently corrupt itself, and refused to boot windows, so i went out and bought a new harddrive, hooked it up to the pc. installed everything, works fine, now i want to add my old harddrive to try to recover the old files but as soon as i plug it in the motherboard that hardrive seems to take priority even though its not plugged into the first sata port. It always tries to boot from that drive, also if i disable the drive in the bios, it still does the same, so i really am stuck... and ideas on how to stop this ?

 

[BoWzA]

Do you mean you tried to change the boot order in the bios? You should be able to change it in there... otherwise I know I can press F12 at POST to choose which drive I want to boot from but you'd have to do that everytime you boot the pc up. Failing that, put it in an external case and turn it on once windows is loaded should work. Good luck!

 

[$h0ck3r]

well, this is what i have done, i put the new harddrive in that works fine in the 1st sata port, that boots fine, and as soon as the old drive that is corrupt it refuses to boot at all, its like, no matter what port the old hardrive is plugged in, it always trys to boot from that ? and as soon as i disconnect the old drive it works fine

 

[Old Hippie]

I would put the old drive in a USB case and copy the files.

Then, reformat the drive and put it back into the main case.

 

[BoWzA]

I would put the old drive in a USB case and copy the files.

Then, reformat the drive and put it back into the main case.

Agreed. You still should be able to change the boot order in the bios though.

 

[$h0ck3r]

i have tried setting the boot order, but like no matter what the old drive just ignores it and no matter what boots from the old drive :s