Swapping Primary & Secondary SATA hard disks.

[Goldstein]

Hello,

I have just recently bought a new PC from a company that specialises in manufacturing such, and requested two SATA hard drives. Unfortunately, the company installed the slower of the two (Which I intended to use for storage) as the primary, complete with my operating system and all, leaving a faster but smaller hard drive as an odd choice for storage space.

I have attempted to install my operating system onto this secondary hard drive, but many system files absolutely insist on being on the primary SATA drive. How would I go about getting the computer to recognise my secondary drive as being my primary?

Thanks,
Goldstein.

 

[cobalt817]

Go into your BIOS and change the boot device,choose your faster hard disk.

 

[Goldstein]

The only option I have in the BIOS regarding these disks is in which order they are detected. Changing this, however, doesn't affect which of the two is primary. Is there something I need to physically do within my case to change their order? The BIOS tells me that one is the primary, it does not offer me the opportunity to change that.

 

[cobalt817]

what hard disks and motherboard do you have? is there any jumpers on the back of your hard disks?