Hi,
My Dell PC has a SATA drive and a CD drive. I added a PATA drive as slave(removed the small pin) to the CD drive. The hard disk is detected by windows but the PC boot order options setup screen does not. Moreover I get a message when I boot the PC that the drive(PATA 0) is not detected. I press F1 and I see the drive in windows explore. There is no problem after that. I have switched PATA 0 on in the boot options setup screen.
Now I have to boot the linux installer from the CD drive to install it on the new PATA drive. As I said the CD is shown as not present in the boot options screen and the installer does not boot.
What should I do to use my PATA drive normally and still boot from the CD drive ? Looking for help.
Thanks,
Mohan
My Dell PC has a SATA drive and a CD drive. I added a PATA drive as slave(removed the small pin) to the CD drive. The hard disk is detected by windows but the PC boot order options setup screen does not. Moreover I get a message when I boot the PC that the drive(PATA 0) is not detected. I press F1 and I see the drive in windows explore. There is no problem after that. I have switched PATA 0 on in the boot options setup screen.
Now I have to boot the linux installer from the CD drive to install it on the new PATA drive. As I said the CD is shown as not present in the boot options screen and the installer does not boot.
What should I do to use my PATA drive normally and still boot from the CD drive ? Looking for help.
Thanks,
Mohan
