how to make sata slave {urgent]

[almighty]

hello mates
i ve 80 GB sata with xp pro installed
last nite my bro wants some data from my pc so he brought his another sata of 80 gb in which xp is also installed
now i wanna know if i connect both the hdd in my pc
HOW MY PC RECOGNIZE WHICH HDD TO USE OR WHICH OS TO USE?
plz help me

[Sukhdeep Singh]

There is no Master slave on SATA AFAIK. Select the Boot HDD from HDD

[almighty]

^^^ thanx mate
how my pc recognize which OS to use coz both hdd ve XP pro
???
plz guide me properly

[Anindya]

when u switch on ur pc press del and fo to BIOS then from there go to BOOT DEVICE option and select the HDD from which u want to boot thats all.

[almighty]

^^^ anindya thanx
but cud u plz tell me wen i enter in BIOS
do i get an option to chose from these 2 hdd
and how i know which hdd i ve to select in BIOS to boot?

ne1 dere plz help me sir
i don much dat's y am asking here
plz share ur knowledge

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Originally Posted by almighty

^^^ anindya thanx
but cud u plz tell me wen i enter in BIOS
do i get an option to chose from these 2 hdd
and how i know which hdd i ve to select in BIOS to boot?

ne1 dere plz help me sir
i don much dat's y am asking here
plz share ur knowledge

Yes, you will get a Option to select which hardrive to boot. If you want to temporarily boot a hardrive, you can press F10 for an Intel Mobo

[almighty]

hummmm
wat is temporarily boot
my pc config. is amd 2800+ via motherboard
how i can use this facility in my pc
can i?

[sam9s]

Originally Posted by almighty

hello mates
i ve 80 GB sata with xp pro installed
last nite my bro wants some data from my pc so he brought his another sata of 80 gb in which xp is also installed
now i wanna know if i connect both the hdd in my pc
HOW MY PC RECOGNIZE WHICH HDD TO USE OR WHICH OS TO USE?
plz help me

There is no master, slave concept in SATA as sukhdeep said, I am not aware of the BIOS settings of your MB but the concept should more or less be the same. In the BIOS there should be an option to choose, 1st HDD, 2nd HDD, 3 HDD and so on till the number of HDDs you have installed. 1st HDD should be the one your system would boot from, the drop down menu will show all HDDs installed and you can change it from there. Set it to the one you wanna boot from. The other thing is the Bootdisk priority, Bootdisk priority will not give you the option of choosing the HDD, it would only show you which media to boot from......HDD, CD ROM, USB etc. The 1st priority should be set to HDD n thats it, and the system should boot from the 1st HDD you have choosen earlier (provided it has the primary partition with windows on it)..........
Hope this helps......