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rawfuls · 01.09.2009, 02:14 PM

The BIOS recognizes it, like I said.
It recognizes all my junk, even my USB external :O

I got Vista for free, and was going to set it up for dual boot (and no, it's completely legit!)
The SATA is completely blank, besides the three partitions.

The first time I booted up, after I connected, it booted fine.. But in My Computer, it didn't recognize it. I downloaded the SeaGate drivers (from the CD), and it recognizes it. So I partition it into 3, 150, 150 and 172 (the rest is for whatever... That's as high it lets me). I restart, it sees the drive, it sees my EIDE/IDE drive, but the BIOS wants to boot from SATA, and not from the IDE.

So in short, no, only the EIDE/IDE HD has the bootable files.

Just for reference, this was my birthday gift I just built on the 4th....
Hence BUILT and not pre-built.

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rawfuls roofles. Offline Posts: 1,982 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Woodland Hills, CA	01.09.2009, 02:14 PM The BIOS recognizes it, like I said. It recognizes all my junk, even my USB external :O I got Vista for free, and was going to set it up for dual boot (and no, it's completely legit!) The SATA is completely blank, besides the three partitions. The first time I booted up, after I connected, it booted fine.. But in My Computer, it didn't recognize it. I downloaded the SeaGate drivers (from the CD), and it recognizes it. So I partition it into 3, 150, 150 and 172 (the rest is for whatever... That's as high it lets me). I restart, it sees the drive, it sees my EIDE/IDE drive, but the BIOS wants to boot from SATA, and not from the IDE. So in short, no, only the EIDE/IDE HD has the bootable files. Just for reference, this was my birthday gift I just built on the 4th.... Hence BUILT and not pre-built.