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muay

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1. July 2012 @ 13:06

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Hi,
Ok so a friend give me a computer that he could not get to work,turned out it needed a new PSU so its now up and running. Thing is i wanted to put my HD in out of my computer which is a 120GB Maxtor Maxtor 6Y120L0 (IDE) it has a hard drive in it already a samsung SATA one,so i fitted my HD in it. When it starts up it sees the samsung one but when it comes on its my HD that comes on. what i would like to do is have mine as a secondary one. But am not sure how to do it. Can anyone help Thank You.
Operating System
MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP2
CPU
AMD Athlon XP
Barton 0.13um Technology
RAM
1.0GB DDR @ 166MHz (2.5-3-3-7)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-7VAXP Ultra (Socket A)

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ddp

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1. July 2012 @ 13:14

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have to go into the bios to see if your maxtor is seen.

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muay

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1. July 2012 @ 13:35

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Yes i can see the maxtor one in bios its listed as IDE Primary Slave,thing is the Maxtor one is starting to fail so i would like to drag some stuff off it onto the samsung drive.
Thanks

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ddp

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1. July 2012 @ 13:48

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with both drives connected, is it the samsung that is booting or the maxtor as it appears in your 1st post?

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muay

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1. July 2012 @ 13:54

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Sorry for not been very clear, its the maxtor one that is booting up.

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ddp

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1. July 2012 @ 13:56

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in the bios, change the boot order so that the samsung boots 1st not the maxtor.

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muay

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1. July 2012 @ 15:55

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yes its set to boot from the samsung one first do you think it could have anything todo with what solt the ide cable is in i have 4 to pick from.

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ddp

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1. July 2012 @ 22:37

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bios & jumper of the drive determines boot order. don't worry about ide just the sata. disconnect the ide cable from drive to make certain the samsung boots properly.

http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloa...id=361&pid=1595
insert sata in place of scsi

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muay

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2. July 2012 @ 10:07

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Thats great thank you its all up and running, thanks for your time and help.

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