Hi,
I recently got a new SATA harddrive and I am trying to get it to work on an IDE motherboard. I got a converter to connect it up and get power to it and using ‘disk management’ got the drive formatted.Now however it only sometimes loads when I boot the computer, more often than not it won’t appear in explorer or disk management.
The IDE drive with XP on it is set as secondary master, I am not sure what the SATA is set as but it has no jumpers on the pins. When I tried switching the IDE to primary master I got an error saying ‘operating system missing’, but it will boot with the IDE as secondary as long as I hit F1 each time I turn it on.
Any suggestions as to how I can get the SATA drive to boot properly or what could be wrong with the IDE being set as primary?
Thanks
