HELP ME GET THIS SATA BOOTABLE!
FACTS
i have a EMachine w244, original HD is, Ultra100 IDE controller, 5200 rpm and noisy
I have a Baracuda 7200 SATA drive that I wanted to use in my computer instead of the stock HD.
I purchased this SATA to IDE bridge adaptor (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812226024) to interconnect the SATA drive to my IDE MOBO Controller.
I do the connection and crack up the computer.
It takes me to the black screen asking "how do i want to start up": (normal, without networking, safe mode, etc) i choose normal, restarts and loops to black screen again. I choose safe, it says "loading windows files", and loops back to booting and black screen again. Nothing gets me to windows.
I look into the BIOS, and it DOES recognizes the make/model of the drive of this SATA drive (again interconnected by bridge to IDE). I tinker with the boot sequence and nothing, same looping to black screen.
I then connect both HD's. (original IDE and SATA HD with bridge), I am able to get to windows (boots from original IDE HD), i can see the SATA drive ok as well from windows and go to its files. Under "computer management", I see both drives, and the make/model is recognized!
The windows file system is in SATA drive (it came from another working PC).
If windows can recognize it, Why cant it boot to the SATA HD? What could be the possibilities if recognized and I can see from within Windows?
thanks
FACTS
i have a EMachine w244, original HD is, Ultra100 IDE controller, 5200 rpm and noisy
I have a Baracuda 7200 SATA drive that I wanted to use in my computer instead of the stock HD.
I purchased this SATA to IDE bridge adaptor (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812226024) to interconnect the SATA drive to my IDE MOBO Controller.
I do the connection and crack up the computer.
It takes me to the black screen asking "how do i want to start up": (normal, without networking, safe mode, etc) i choose normal, restarts and loops to black screen again. I choose safe, it says "loading windows files", and loops back to booting and black screen again. Nothing gets me to windows.
I look into the BIOS, and it DOES recognizes the make/model of the drive of this SATA drive (again interconnected by bridge to IDE). I tinker with the boot sequence and nothing, same looping to black screen.
I then connect both HD's. (original IDE and SATA HD with bridge), I am able to get to windows (boots from original IDE HD), i can see the SATA drive ok as well from windows and go to its files. Under "computer management", I see both drives, and the make/model is recognized!
The windows file system is in SATA drive (it came from another working PC).
If windows can recognize it, Why cant it boot to the SATA HD? What could be the possibilities if recognized and I can see from within Windows?
thanks