On boards where the SATA can be set to either
SATA or RAID in the BIOS and SATA is selected,
the SATA drives are identified as #3 and #4.
Since he has both, a regular IDE is identified
as PATA IDE and the SATA is identified as a SATA
IDE. If you look at the Device Manager you will
see two sets of IDE channels listed vs the SATA
being identified in the SCSI listing. So, the
PATA IDE is 1st Master and the SATA IDE is
identified as 3rd Master. There will not be any
3rd or 4th Slave on the SATA IDE channels.
John Barnes wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean that VistaBootPro doesn't work. If you mean it
> won't install and run, try EasyBCD. Others have had the same problem. I'm
> not sure about your description. You say you have 2 drives and then
> describe 1st master and 3rd master.
> The basic procedure is that the partition that has the Vista boot files on
> it has to be your system partition (first in boot priority in BIOS and
> active), then you have to have a legacy entry in the Vista boot file (using
> VistaBootPro or EasyBCD). Then you have to have the ntldr ntdetect.com and
> boot.ini files from your XP install copied onto the partition that has the
> Vista boot file on it. Modify the boot.ini as necessary to point to the
> drive (disk, partition) that contains your xp system. You can start with the
> order that they are shown in Disk Management in your Vista system, but may
> have to try other options. You should be okay on the partition number, but
> the physical drive number may be different (only 0 or 1 if you have two
> physical drives)
>
> "smash" <> wrote in message
> news:CDC52FFC-1A65-40FD-BBFA-...
>> i just downloaded window vista rc1 x64, it took 6 hrs on a dsl connection.
>> I
>> have dual
>>
>> booted in the past verison of windows vista beta 2, and i have not had any
>> problems with he
>>
>> vista boot loadeder. that is until i went to dual boot xp pro and rc 1
>> x64,
>> i dont get the
>>
>> boot loader for vista. I can install it on a clean hd and it works fine,
>> but that mean i
>>
>> have to switch drives all the time...
>>
>> and i downloaded and installed vistabootpro 2.1 beta and i cannot get that
>> to work. And
>>
>> when i run msconfig in xp pro i dont have the bootini tab. so i would like
>> a
>> little more
>>
>> info and help on this matter.
>>
>> I tryed installing a the 5342 buil that i have and it does the same thing?
>>
>> i have 2 hard drives, a 160gig sata and a 200gig eide drive and im booting
>> xp off the sata
>>
>> drive. and my bios is showing that it is the 3rd master and the 200gig is
>> 1st master would
>>
>> that have something to do with it?
>>
>>
>> also i have a linksys 100tx nic and i cant find 64 bit drivers for it, and
>> ideas?
>>
>> thanks for all those that replay.
>>
>> --
>> lost in space101
>
>
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