Firstly I am a user not an expert but now find myself in the position of needing to know more. I have 2 serial ata drives in a stripe set and a couple of standard ata drives. I eventualy managed to get my operating system on to the ata drive, no easy task for me! I try and connect my IDE drive to use as a backup but thats the one it always boots from. There is an option in my bios which asks "boot from raid\ide" but this makes no difference. I suspect I need to alter my boot ini, could someone help me with this please

Wayne

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Originally Posted by waynelhicks

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have you tried going in to your bios and altering the boot sequence from there

try swapping the ide cables round (worked for me) also are the jumpres set to the right positions? try the boot sequence in the bios firsh thoug as spud sugested