Two SATA Drives - Master/Master

[Gooey_GUI]

I have two drives but the PC boots into the second SATA drive rather than the first. When I put a new drive in, I tried to install XP on it and use it for my boot drive. However, the second drive already had XP on it and the system assigned the drive letters switched around. The boot drive I want is "E" not "C".

As the current C drive is a 74 gig Raptor, it's OK with me to keep it that way. But, I still need to resolve not having a proper Master/Slave configuration.

Any clues would be appreciated.

 

[Empyrean]

I'm assuming by 'drive' you mean actual physical HDD and not logical drive.

In this case it is just a matter of changing the boot order inside BIOS.

 

[Gooey_GUI]

It's not the boot order that I'm particularly concerned about. It's that I have two physical master drives. Shouldn't one of the two SATA drives be a slave?

 

[Dark Ember]

It's not the boot order that I'm particularly concerned about. It's that I have two physical master drives. Shouldn't one of the two SATA drives be a slave?

Master/Slave has no meaning with SATA products. That is a parallel only term. SATA drives just plug into their own ports.

 

[TheDoucheMan]

The ports are numbered, and the first boot disk will probably be the lowest numbered port.

 

[Gooey_GUI]

I understand that there is no slave now. But, the boot drive is connected to the SATA2 port, so I don't get it as far as that is concerned. Also, the current boot drive is listed second in the BIOS.

 

[Dark Ember]

Can you change the SATA port numbers in the boot order to boot off of the SATA2 port first?

 

[Gooey_GUI]

I don't know, but the boot drive is connected to SATA2.