Linux Mint 13 in new SATA HDD

[TIMONLINE2012]

Hello,

I recently installed a SATA drive with IDE-SATA interface to my IDE PC and installed Linux Mint 13 on it. The BIOS appears to recognise the drive and it comes up as a primary and Mint appears to be installed as it comes up as an option to select when I boot up. However, when I select Mint it then tells me that it can't find the drive and times out. Any suggestions?

 

[spankmon]

I presume you are dual-booting with Windows on the first drive and Mint on the second. Normally, Linux doesn't care about a boot flag... but since Mint is the only operating system on the second drive, I suggest setting the boot flag on the Mint partition in addition to the one already set for Windows on the first drive. You can use the partitioning tool from the Mint live cd to set the boot flag without causing any damage to the already-installed system.