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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Can you see it in disk management? It has to be partitioned before it will appear in My Computer. start - run - diskmgmt.msc _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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| Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:29 pm |
 
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Electric_Wizard
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:05 pm
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Location: In the studio
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Cheers.
It's now working fine, except that the computer still won't boot if its plugged in before windows loads. Weird, but workable.
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| Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:43 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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That sounds like the boot order. Simplest fix might be to swap it with the drive you actually do want to boot from, if you can't find it in the BIOS.
_________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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| Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:17 pm |
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Electric_Wizard
Occasionally has a life
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I'm not sure I follow. The drive that windows boots from is the 60GB IDE drive. The 2 SATAs are just additional storage. The computer boots fine if the new drive gets plugged in after the Silicon Image SATA Raid BIOS screen has gone. If it is plugged in before this point then it won't get any further than the SATA BIOS screen. First boot device in the main BIOS is set to the IDE HDD.
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| Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:06 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Sorry, didn't realise the boot drive was IDE. I should have read the first page again  *scratches head* _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm
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This is most puzzling.
Hmmm.......
*scratches chin*
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| Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:39 pm |
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pcernie
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Location: Belfast
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The only thing I can even find close to your problem is this guy's post, and he replaced the HDD : http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/268 ... hard-drive_________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
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