 How To Set My New Hard Drive To Primary? |
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 Sep 21 2008, 08:36 AM
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I formatted both of the hard drive. And i tried to make the new hard drive to primary(ide) I only have 1 jumper thing. I place the old hard drive jumper to the second row. Still my WDC hard drive detects as SATA. Is there any way to change my new hard drive to primary? A helpd would be really appreciate it. |
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Sep 21 2008, 09:33 AM
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You need to change the priority of the drives in the Boot Order section of the BIOS setup.
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