PATA/SATA Boot doubt...

[ionicsachin]

My friend has purchased an abit ip35-pro today....as he is upgrading, he wants to use his old seagate pata ide hard disk...he wants to do a fresh windows installation...our doubt is can this be done on ip35-pro as he doesnt have sata drive....will ide hdd option be there in boot priority list?

 

[pratik03]

In BIOS HDD is treated as Hard Disk in boot priority option, doesn't matter is it SATA or IDE drive.

 

[ionicsachin]

but ip35-pro uses jmicron to control ide...he wants to use his pata dvd drive and pata hdd as slave and master....and he wants to do a fresh windows installation....