Is it possible to make a SATA HDD a slave to an IDE HDD?

Question

I'm currently fixing a problem one of my computers has. The problematic computer uses a SATA HDD, and currently Windows cannot load into the system. My computer keeps restarting during Windows loading and the "Repair" option during the re-installation wasn't there (as if the Windows has already gone from the system). The hard disk has some important data which I needed to backup.

I tried using my fine computer's HDD which also has Windows and uses IDE to backup the files on the SATA HDD. I heard that SATA HDDs don't need to be set as slave but when I connect them together on the same mainboard, it keeps trying to load Windows on the SATA HDD and keeps restarting. The BIOS setting I used that time was:

- SATA Configuration (tried both enabled and disabled)
- 1st Boot Device IDE HDD (SATA HDD not in the sequence, I even tried disabling it)


In short:

- I tried to backup files from a SATA HDD which Windows is corrupted
- I tried using an IDE HDD as first boot device with the SATA HDD disabled but it doesn't work.

Is there a way to let my SATA HDD work as slave so that I can backup some important files to the IDE HDD?

Thank you.

Answer 1

All SATA drives are masters. They have no ability, to become slave drives, just set it to boot from the IDE drive.

Answer 2

nope. the master slave issue only matters on the ide ribbon. since sata hard drives only connect to sata ports, and completely bypass the ide ribbon there si no master slave complex.



Ig you want to make the ide the boot drive and the sata a drive only usable in windows, like a master slave set up, just prevent the sata drive form booting in the bios menue. this will do the trick for oyu.



Hope this helps

Answer 3

You can't change whether a SATA drive is master or slave. it will always be fixed as master. IDE drives are the only ones which can be changed. By default the computer makes it a slave

Answer 4

confident, RAID potential 2 HDDs of equivalent length (or that act as equivalent length). yet you are able to connect as many no longer basic drives as you have ports for, and you do no longer could use RAID in case you do no longer choose to. it truly is many times suggested as JBOD (purely a gaggle Of Disks). whilst your BIOS and a few classes might say there's a grasp and a slave, there certainly isn't any such element with SATA. each and each force gets its very own channel.

Answer 5

No but in the BIOS setup, you can set the Boot sequence as:

Give priority to IDE than to SATA. then your SATA will act as slave but it won't be slave.