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Booting from optical drive (SATA2) that's plugged to a card in the resident PCI slot?

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Can I boot from an optical drive (SATA2) that's plugged to a card in the resident PCI slot?

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If you're plugging it to a SATA port on a PCI expansion card, probably not... the device wouldn't be recognised by your BIOS (driver layer for the expansion card is likely needed).

If you can see the drive when you boot and go into the BIOS, then yes, it is recognised and should be able to boot.

If you plug into a SATA port on the MB, then it should work as a boot device.
 
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Right, the drivers are installed for it already but in the BIOS it's labelled as 'Removable Dev.'

So I can't boot via a SATA2 device in a PCI card?
 
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If the drive is labeled removable device in bios you shoul be albe to boot from it. Set the first boot option to removable device.
 
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Frick said:
If the drive is labeled removable device in bios you shoul be albe to boot from it. Set the first boot option to removable device.
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Thanks but of course; I have already done that. :)
 
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It depends on the expansion card.

For example, with my RAID cards I have to go into the RAID controller's BIOS and select which device or RAID array I want to be the bootable one. Then in my Motherboard's BIOS the RAID controller shows up in the HDD section. So I set the RAID controller as the first boot device in the Motherboard's BIOS and then set the Optical Drive as the boot device in the RAID Controller's BIOS, and it boots from the Optical Drive. If I do nothing in the RAID controller's BIOS then it doesn't boot from the RAID card and moves on to the next boot device.
 
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newtekie1 said:
It depends on the expansion card.
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Yes. If it does show up in the list of devices, then look in the boot priority list section of your BIOS to see if it is there as well. If it is, then you should be able to boot (assuming you have a bootable disc... duh). If you have any other bootable devices connected, you might want to disconnect them first (in case of time-out issues)
 
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