Inuyasha
06-14-2007, 09:02 AM
I'm still not all that familiar with using SATA right now since I just recently started using it. My computer is a few years old. My motherboard is the ASUS A7N8XE - Deluxe, which has SATA headers on it. I have 2 hard drives: 1. 200GB IDE, 2. 160GB SATA. I know you can use both at one time, which I had been doing. I upgraded my processor from an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ to an AMD Athlon XP-M 2500+ so that I could overclock it(currently running at 2.4GHz compared to 1.83GHz). I got my new RAM in yesterday. I went from 512MB to 2GB(2 x 1GB, dual channel kit). Installed those yesterday and they work great. I formatted the IDE drive since it was the secondary and my SATA drive is the primary. I tried installing Windows Vista Ultimate to it so that I could have my machine set up for dual boot(XP Pro and Vista), but I couldn't install it that way. When I tried from within XP, it said that my IDE drive was not a compatible drive(which doesn't make sense at all), but when I booted with the Vista DVD in the drive, it only gave me the option of installing it to the IDE drive(which I installed it to). The problem I'm having is that it still will not dual boot. If I have the SATA drive plugged in, it will boot straight to XP without giving an option for Vista, but if I unplug it, my computer boots right into Vista. Anybody have any success doing this? Did I just miss something in the install, or is there something else I have to do? Thanks.