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sata drive
Name: Martin Date: June 25, 2005 at 13:39:05 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: AMD 3000 64 1.5gb
Comment:
I've just installed a sata hard drive and I'm running my old hhd as a spare drive. The sata is partitioned and formated and everything works fine until you change the boot process to boot up from the CD. It trys to read the cd but it then kicks in the other harddrive. Which means the sata drive will not boot, I need to reformat the sata but how do I do it. Thanks for any replys.
Name: Rick McNabb Date: June 25, 2005 at 13:42:12 Pacific
Reply:
What you really need to do is remove the active partition attribute on the "spare" HD. Then it won't boot from it. Can you copy everything from the "spare" to the SATA and then wipe out and create a new partition on the "spare"?
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Response Number 2
Name: Martin Date: June 25, 2005 at 13:49:50 Pacific
Reply:
great, but how do you do this.
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Response Number 3
Name: Rick McNabb Date: June 25, 2005 at 14:32:31 Pacific
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Do you have an operating system on the SATA drive? Are you trying to install Windows on the SATA drive? What really do you want to accomplish here? What exactly do you see when it is trying to boot from the CD?
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Response Number 4
Name: Martin Date: June 25, 2005 at 14:53:09 Pacific
Summary: I was getting an UNMOUNTALE_BOOT_DEVICE error from my hard drive, so Dell replaced it. Now, I have to get the data off of the bad drive. My plan is to boot from the new SATA drive, and put the old S...
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