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I have your older P55CMS motherboard with a SCSI hard drive subsystem which runs Windows 2K. I require additional hard drive space and have added an IDE drive, but the system will not load Windows. Is there a way to have the SCSI drives be detected first so Windows will load and be able to access the IDE drives for storage?
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The AMI BIOS shell used on this motherboard is incapable of making SCSI the highest boot priority, but the way Windows handles hard drives will allow a workaround. Windows does not use BIOS reporting for hard drives so if you go into the BIOS and leave the IDE controllers enabled, change the IDE drives to “not installed.” The computer system during boot up will not detect the IDE hard drives and assign them in the boot sequence. When Windows loads off of your SCSI drive, the IDE drives will be detected and a driver/service will start to access the drives and assign a drive letter. Just go into the drive administrator and partition and format your IDE drives.
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Date Posted:
05/07/04
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