plainolguy Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 I have a couple of IDE drives I would like to use on my ASUS A8NE board.I installed XP on a SATA drive originally. Now when I try to connect an IDE drive it shows up as drive zero in the Disk Management snap-in. I have searched on the web for an answer and the closest thing I`ve found is install SCSI drivers on installation of XP but that didn`t help. Plus I read I won`t be able to image the drives if I do this.I have selected in the BIOS which drive to boot from and that stays the same every time. However when I get into the Disk Management page it still shows the IDE as being drive zero. I`ve tried slave, cable select, master etc. Is there a way to do this so I can use these IDE drives and moving them down the pecking order so that my SATA is always drive zero? My manual doesn`t talk about using both IDE and SATA, just IDE OR SATA.Thanks AllPlain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Snrub Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 I'm not sure there is anything you can do about that - the BIOS presents the devices to the OS and they are enumerated in the order they appear.Is this causing a problem, though? The order/number of the drives in XP should not matter...If the system is trying to boot off the wrong disk, that should be configured in the BIOS too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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