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I bought a Vantec IDE to SATA adapter for a nearly new Seagate IDE drive that I wish to put in my PC. Everything plugs in and works okay, but when I boot the machine up it places the new drive as drive zero. I don`t understand why XP does this as my BIOS recognized the new drive as the 3rd SATA Master as it should because that is the plug in where I put it. Any suggestions?
I would like to use this drive as my Bart drive and put my Ghosted images here for emergencies.

I ran across a utility that has the ability to change the VolumeID of a drive but I`m not sure if this is all that is required. I read somewhere that the controller tells XP which drive is first and I feel like the adapter I am using may be placing the new drive as zero and bypassing my MB disk controller. Is this possible?

I will otherwise have to use a external enclosure. Is this what I should do anyway?

Thanks Guys and Have a good week.

Plain

There's a lot to be said for using an external drive If you only connect it whed doing backups or restores it will not be impacted by power surges which may effect the live machine. If some malware invades your machine there's less chance it will impact the backup drive if it's not connected. If you store the external drive at work or at a neighbor's it is immune from disasters which could impact your dwelling.

Like I said, a lot to be said for an external drive.

Hmmm, maybe the drive, notwithstanding the adapter is sensed as IDE (actually ATA/ATAPI) and put as first.

The MBR, volume id or whatever you can change on the hard disk WILL NOT change this behaviour.

The problem is within the BIOS and the "informations" that XP gets from it, and possibly in the firmware of the adapter.

What happens if you simply DO NOT add the drive to BIOS detection?

jaclaz

Okay, first I hooked up the Seagate IDE 80 gig using the Vantec IDE/SATA adapter.
I removed the jumper from the drive which meant it would be a slave then rebooted.
The drive didn`t show up in either the BIOS or XP.

Then I set the jumper to Master.
This time the drive showed up at 3rd SATA in BIOS and Disk zero in XP.
Next I set it as Cable Select. It showed up as 3rd SATA in BIOS and Disk zero in XP.

Next in the BIOS with jumper at Master I changed the BIOS to not recognize
the drive, okay.........BIOS none, XP Disc zero.
Next I tried even disabling an IDE channel but no luck.
A persistent drive.......
ASUS A8NE
Seagate 80gig.

I`m going to do what Ed P suggested and just get an external enclosure for the drive.
There are all kinds of ways to do things aren`t there?

Thanks for responding to my plea.

Plain