SATA bootable hard drives.
OK guys, I finally got ahold of a great deal. I recently got a Western Digital 500 GB SATA drive. I set it up as bootable, and let the software do the rest. It made a PERFECT copy of the original drive on my computer, and I was all ready to have some fun....then the trouble started. I don't know HOW and I dont know WHY, but when I removed the old ATA hard drive and rebooted my system, It won't try to boot from the new drive. Bios recognizes it, and if I boot from the OLD drive, I can acess it and read files, everything works as far as data communication, but the darn thing absolutely REFUSES to boot. I looked in the BIOS, and my SATA on-board is there, recognizes the drive, but for whatever reason, when looking under the "advanced" section, and the dropdown for "boot sequence", It doesnt list the new drive at all. It's almost like the MB won't allow booting from the SATA drives. Anyone heard of this? The MB is an MSI. I can't remember off the top of my head what the exact model number is, but It was brans new about a year ago. The SATA drive is a 300mb access rate, and the mainboard supports 300mb. I am lost....any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
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