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Booting

killer_cain · 2004-02-27 20:20:34

Hi all, got a quickie here (I hope!), I intend getting a mobo that can handle 2 Serial ATA HDs, thing is since there is no master or slave with SATA can I change which HD I boot off if there is a bootable OS on each? cheers kc

27-02-2004 9:20pm

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killer_cain

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Hi all, got a quickie here (I hope!), I intend getting a mobo that can handle 2 Serial ATA HDs, thing is since there is no master or slave with SATA can I change which HD I boot off if there is a bootable OS on each?

cheers
kc

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#2 27-02-2004 9:27pm

joePC

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Very good question, As far as I know the drive connected to the first SATA connector will boot first, im sure theres away around this,

Thanks joePC

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#3 27-02-2004 11:25pm

Stephen

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Surely you can just set the boot order in your BIOS? Or perhaps use some kind of third party bootloader?

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