Hard disk probs so as is one's custom one just formatted and reloaded operating system(win7 64 bit),have most of my pickies and music on a spare HD (Win XP) both Sata disk,so stuck spare XP in machine alongside the win7 disc with the idea of copying stuff across as is also my custom.
Bios only shows one Sata disk and the machine booted from the spare xp disk,no sign of the newly formatted and loaded disk??
Incidently new disk boots and works fine when in machine by itself.
With IDE kit one could designate one disk as slave and tother as master,which is what I used to do as oft a failed hard disk could be accessed as a slave,so what is the score with Sata disks??
PS managed to recover all my stuff as WIN 7 was saved on separate partition on the as windows old on the formatted disk.
