Hard drive install

[milan75]

I Install my 2nd hard drive as a storage drive. Then I booted up and got an error loading OS. I rebooted and hit F10 to set up and found that the storage drive is no# 1 and my main drive is no#3. How do I get the storage drive to be after my main drive.So it will boot up from it. My main drive is a SATA. I have a Parserio Compaq SR5601p with Vista. The new drive I am trying to Install as storage is a Western Digital EIDE160GB WDCaviar@SE-7200RPM

 

[mansrm81]

Try changing the boot order for the hard drives in the bios so its the sata drive.

 

[Night Hawk]

Somehow the drive order was changed in the list of drives in the bios itself. It could be from a weak battery now not maintaining the cmos settings and reverting to factory defaults seeing the storage made default.

First referring to the user manual you would go into the bios and look for the boot or boot order section. When there you hightlight the "hard drive" item and press the enter/return key to bring up the list of hard drives installed.

Often a notation to the right side there will point at the plus and minus keys on the NumPad for moving a drive upto the top once you have the drive itself highlighted. Once at the top that is made the default boot drive and you simply press the F10 key to exit the bios setup and save the new setting or use the esc key to back out of the boot section and scroll over to do the same exit and save.

That will see the OS drive now as the default boot device. Since the OS is also a sata model this is why the storage became first since it must be plugged into the primary master port and seen as the first hard drive on the system.

Another method without entering the bios would be simply shutting down and swapping the ports each drive is plugged into seeing the OS drive in the first sata port on the board with the second storage drive in the primary slave port.

 

[lordbob75]

Check out this tutorial Changing Boot Order

That should fix it, though it is interesting that it did not boot from the OS drive after the other drive and CD/DVD drive had nothing in it.... This could be a deeper problem, but try that first.

~Lordbob

 

[Night Hawk]

The guide seen there is only good with certain select bios versions on older boards by the looks of that. On most boards out now you simply scroll over to the boot or boot order tab where you won't find any individual master, slave settings for each drive.

The most likely probably is simply seen when adding an ide drive onto a system not as slave to an OS drive also ide but sata. That will see ide take over as default immediately.

When opening up the list of drives you will see the ide drive at the top with the sata having been bumped down. You simply highlight the sata and move it to the top to see it restored as the default boot device. exit+save and you will be all set.

 

[lordbob75]

The guide seen there is only good with certain select bios versions on older boards by the looks of that. On most boards out now you simply scroll over to the boot or boot order tab where you won't find any individual master, slave settings for each drive.

I tried to write it so it would work for any BIOS, but I only had so many screenshots. My mobo, which is less than 3 months old, has a BIOS that looks similar to the second picture on there, the one with the horizontal menu.
If you have any screenshots of newer BIOS menus, please post them up so I can add and update the Tutorial for newer BIOS.

However, it should still work for most BIOS menus...

~Lordbob

 

[Night Hawk]

The guide seen there is only good with certain select bios versions on older boards by the looks of that. On most boards out now you simply scroll over to the boot or boot order tab where you won't find any individual master, slave settings for each drive.

I tried to write it so it would work for any BIOS, but I only had so many screenshots. My mobo, which is less than 3 months old, has a BIOS that looks similar to the second picture on there, the one with the horizontal menu.
If you have any screenshots of newer BIOS menus, please post them up so I can add and update the Tutorial for newer BIOS.

However, it should still work for most BIOS menus...

~Lordbob

I realize you probably only had so many available when preparing the guide seen there. Otherwise it's a good reference.

The one thing you may want to see added in as a notation however is the referal to the use manuals or online pdf manuals seen at the support sites for the various makes and models having different bios versions like Award, Phonix, AMI, and others there. Those were typical of older Socket A and P III boards.

The screenshots in the guide there are similar to those seen in article at Boot Order - How to Change the Boot Order in BIOS - BIOS Boot Order

The screenshots seen at the link here are typical of how the bios will look on many boards. Asus P5N-E SLI Motherboard Review :: BIOS and Overclocking :: Motherboards.org

That should help a bit since you will ready notice the vast change in appearance from those there when comparing.

 

[lordbob75]

The guide seen there is only good with certain select bios versions on older boards by the looks of that. On most boards out now you simply scroll over to the boot or boot order tab where you won't find any individual master, slave settings for each drive.

I tried to write it so it would work for any BIOS, but I only had so many screenshots. My mobo, which is less than 3 months old, has a BIOS that looks similar to the second picture on there, the one with the horizontal menu.
If you have any screenshots of newer BIOS menus, please post them up so I can add and update the Tutorial for newer BIOS.

However, it should still work for most BIOS menus...

~Lordbob

I realize you probably only had so many available when preparing the guide seen there. Otherwise it's a good reference.

The one thing you may want to see added in as a notation however is the referal to the use manuals or online pdf manuals seen at the support sites for the various makes and models having different bios versions like Award, Phonix, AMI, and others there. Those were typical of older Socket A and P III boards.

The screenshots in the guide there are similar to those seen in article at Boot Order - How to Change the Boot Order in BIOS - BIOS Boot Order

The screenshots seen at the link here are typical of how the bios will look on many boards. Asus P5N-E SLI Motherboard Review :: BIOS and Overclocking :: Motherboards.org

That should help a bit since you will ready notice the vast change in appearance from those there when comparing.

Thanks a lot, I will add those in!

~Lordbob

 

[Night Hawk]

I tried to write it so it would work for any BIOS, but I only had so many screenshots. My mobo, which is less than 3 months old, has a BIOS that looks similar to the second picture on there, the one with the horizontal menu.
If you have any screenshots of newer BIOS menus, please post them up so I can add and update the Tutorial for newer BIOS.

However, it should still work for most BIOS menus...

~Lordbob

I realize you probably only had so many available when preparing the guide seen there. Otherwise it's a good reference.

The one thing you may want to see added in as a notation however is the referal to the use manuals or online pdf manuals seen at the support sites for the various makes and models having different bios versions like Award, Phonix, AMI, and others there. Those were typical of older Socket A and P III boards.

The screenshots in the guide there are similar to those seen in article at Boot Order - How to Change the Boot Order in BIOS - BIOS Boot Order

The screenshots seen at the link here are typical of how the bios will look on many boards. Asus P5N-E SLI Motherboard Review :: BIOS and Overclocking :: Motherboards.org

That should help a bit since you will ready notice the vast change in appearance from those there when comparing.

Thanks a lot, I will add those in!

~Lordbob

Those should help a little while not covering the various types seen between Award, Phonix, AMI, and others while those are the big three typically seen. But it does show how some will see manual configurations available while others are more simplified for the average user.