How to ensure SATA drive shows a drive 0?

[Gerald Bramwell]

Hi,

I have an ASRock 775i65GV motherboard. I have just got a 250Gb SATA
drive on which I want to do a clean install of Windows XP home SP2. Is
there any way I can ensure that the SATA drive will the first drive I.E
drive0?

Thanks
Gerald

 

[peter]

If its the only HD connected and it is connected to the SATA1 connector it
will be drive0

peter

"Gerald Bramwell" <ged.bee@invalid.address> wrote in message
news:es$sPUHTIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I have an ASRock 775i65GV motherboard. I have just got a 250Gb SATA drive
> on which I want to do a clean install of Windows XP home SP2. Is there any
> way I can ensure that the SATA drive will the first drive I.E drive0?
>
> Thanks
> Gerald

 

[Gerald Bramwell]

There are two IDE drives and a DVD Writer in the system that I would
like to keep in place.

Gerald


peter wrote:
> If its the only HD connected and it is connected to the SATA1 connector it
> will be drive0
>
> peter
>
> "Gerald Bramwell" <ged.bee@invalid.address> wrote in message
> news:es$sPUHTIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an ASRock 775i65GV motherboard. I have just got a 250Gb SATA drive
>> on which I want to do a clean install of Windows XP home SP2. Is there any
>> way I can ensure that the SATA drive will the first drive I.E drive0?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Gerald
>
>

 

[DL]

Simply disconnect the ide hd's whilst installing, and if the dvd is in
edition to the cd disconnect that also

"Gerald Bramwell" <ged.bee@invalid.address> wrote in message
news:ulHJXWJTIHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> There are two IDE drives and a DVD Writer in the system that I would like
> to keep in place.
>
> Gerald
>
>
> peter wrote:
>> If its the only HD connected and it is connected to the SATA1 connector
>> it will be drive0
>>
>> peter
>>
>> "Gerald Bramwell" <ged.bee@invalid.address> wrote in message
>> news:es$sPUHTIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have an ASRock 775i65GV motherboard. I have just got a 250Gb SATA
>>> drive on which I want to do a clean install of Windows XP home SP2. Is
>>> there any way I can ensure that the SATA drive will the first drive I.E
>>> drive0?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Gerald
>>

 

[Edward W. Thompson]

"Gerald Bramwell" <ged.bee@invalid.address> wrote in message
news:es$sPUHTIHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I have an ASRock 775i65GV motherboard. I have just got a 250Gb SATA drive
> on which I want to do a clean install of Windows XP home SP2. Is there any
> way I can ensure that the SATA drive will the first drive I.E drive0?
>
> Thanks
> Gerald

I don't think you can. As far as I know the bios reads PATA drives first
then SATA. However, that shouldn't create a problem as you can, at least for
most purposes, adjust through software (boot.ini, grub etc).

If you do as another has suggested, that is disconnect the PATA drives, then
the SATA will be initially seen as HD0 but I think I am right when I say
when you reconnect the PATA drives and reboot the drives will be renumbered
with the PATA drives being placed first.

 

[nesredep egrob]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 06:39:29 -0000, "Edward W. Thompson"
<thomeduk1@btopenworld.com> wrote:

>I don't think you can. As far as I know the bios reads PATA drives first
>then SATA. However, that shouldn't create a problem as you can, at least for
>most purposes, adjust through software (boot.ini, grub etc).
>

I have an Intel D915PBL Motherboard. I added a 750GB SATA WD Disk and it is now
in disk Management mentioned as disk 0.

However W2K was installed prior to that and the disk with the operating system
is now disk 1 whereas before the SATA addition it was disk 0.

It is therefore very likely that the SATA will install as disk(0)

Borge in sunny Perth, Australia