PC won't boot from IDE HDD when SATA data drive connected
- by Kevin
I have an old Pentium 4 system running XP. The machine is set up as an HTPC. It was set up and running well with 1 SATA drive as a boot drive, another SATA drive to store TV recordings, and an IDE drive to store more recordings.
Last week the original boot drive (a SATA drive) failed. The BIOS would no longer recognize it. I had a disused IDE…