[Solved] Sata drive problem

[smithandrew12]

Hi all

I have just dug an oldish desktop out as i want to rip some vinyl as wav. files then flac and its the only pc that has a line-in connection, eveything seems fine until i try to burn a disc to one of the burners, and the ide burner is not recognised, Checked the connections and one is connected one isnt, when i try to connect the other burner and reboot, my sata hard-drive isnt recognised but the ide burner is and my pc wont boot, now i kind of remember having this issue when i built the thing but am blowed if i can remember what to do to resolve the issue remember. Motherboard is a asus m2v, processor amd athlon 64x2 5600, graphics Ati radeon 4800hd

[Ray1000]

Hi Andrew,

 

Is it just a matter of hitting "DEL" during startup ... and changing the boot order to suit your new arrangement I wonder?

 

Ray

[smithandrew12]

Nope Ray wish it was, have tried that, it seems that i cant have the ide and sata attached at the same time, when the ide is attached the sata drive is just not showing up, remove the ide drive and it's back again and boots as normal, i know it used to work fine but its been a while since i used it.

[KenB]

Hi

 

Try setting the BIOS to "IDE compatible" - click here

 

Make a written note of what you change just in case you need to change it back :)

[smithandrew12]

Cheers ken, turns out the ide drive was set as a hardrive instead of a cdrom so sorted now, many thanks

[KenB]

Good to hear that you got it sorted :)