Old Sata HD w/OS Overriding New Sata HD w/OS

:wave I did a clean install of Win 7 64 on a new Sata HD. When I hook up the old sata drive it becomes the master drive. How do I stop it. I want to get files from it, without it booting up instead of the new OS. I don't understand why it is doing that. I thought the new OS would automatically be the master drive. Thoughts?:confused

 

Master / Slave are old concepts.
Easiest attempt, swap the cables - may or may not work.
You will probably have to select the boot drive in your BIOS.
Post hardware information if you need more ideas.

 

Reboot and as soon as you see something on the screen, hit F12. Then use the arrow keys to select the 'new' drive.

As suggested by DOA, change the boot order in the BIOS. Then the PC will always boot from the drive first on the list.

 

Okay ... it's working right now. Windows had to do a repair ... after that the new OS took over. New problem. One of the old HD is a IDE drive and uses a IDE PCI adapter card. Caused windows to crash ... I think it's because it can't find a driver for the 64bit system. It was looking for one, then locked up and crashed. Is there a site where I can get a driver for that adapter if need be?:confused

 

We need to know what you did to get it working.
Did you change the boot order in the BIOS?
Did you change the jumpers on the HDDs?
A better option than an IDE PCI adapter card is an IDE to SATA connector.

 

Your best bet (and least amount of headaches) is after a fresh install on a new drive is to connect the old drive via USB to transfer data and/or wipe it. Remember to do this AFTER booting the new OS.

That way you will not run into conflicts, or have to mess with the BIOS. If you are keeping the old drive as storage, just wipe it. If you have an ATAPI bridge which uses a SATA cable separate from the power connector (like a StarTech), you don't even have to remove the old drive from the tower if you don't want to.

:cool

 

Only if someone actually wrote a driver which supports your OS. Even flashing old routers to be bridges only works if the router is supported by something fairly generic like DD-WRT.

As suggested, you would be better off with an EIDE to SATA adapter.

 

What about the problem I am having now with the OS locking up and getting a disc boot failure error ... this is when no other hard drives are hooked up. What can I do to correct that?:confused

 

I would boot the W7 disc, and open a command prompt. Then, run the bootrec.exe command with the applicable parameter. Allow it to complete, and restart the machine.

Here is a quick tutorial:

http://www.7tutorials.com/command-prompt-fix-issues-your-boot-records

 

Well sir ... I got the locking up problems straighten out ... I forgot to install the drivers for the mobo on the new hard drive. I switch the controller PCI card to a sata raid PCIE card with the IDE slot. The BIOS has the IDE drive listed in the boot priority section, and the device manager states the raid controller is working properly, but windows 7 doesn't show it under my computer. Any idea why and how to get the hard drive seen?:confused

 

Well sir ... I went into disk management and it sees the hard drive, but it states that it is "not initialized" It is unallocated and when I right click in the space the menu is grayed out except for properties. I am unable to create a new simple volume. Do I have to use a third party software to initialized it?:confused

 

I've run into issues like this before, and AOMEI is a good tool to overcome the limitations of Disk Management.

I gather you've wiped the drive, or is it listed as unallocated despite having data written on it?

 

I did try using AOMEI but it didn't work. I was having some booting issues, so I reset the CMOS ... once I did that and went back into the disk management I was able to make a new simple volume with the IDE drive. But the problem is in order to open the drive I have to format it and I don't want to do that because I need the data on the drive. Would a USB adapter allow me to get the data of the IDE hard drive and put it on the new one?:confused

 

Yes, that's your best option.

 

I have been looking into sata drives not being readable. Came across: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/minitool_partition_wizard_home_edition.html

Recovering partitions would be the direction I would experiment with.
Good luck
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