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Cant boot old drive after adding new drive
I have an HP EliteDesk 800 with a 500G drive on SATA-0. I added a 1TB drive on SATA-1. The 1TB drive came from a Window 8 machine where it was the primary drive. After the new drive was added the ...
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How motherboard identify hard disks list?
Happy Holidays :) .
Today I bought a new internal hard disk , so now I have two working and connected hard disks at the same time , back then before I bought it , the hard disk was identified as "...
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New SATA expansion card 'bootmgr is missing'
I recently installed a new IO Crest 4 Port PCIe SATA III expansion card, because I was out of sata slots, and hooked up an older 100gig SSD I had as a third storage drive.
Installation went OK, I ...
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Windows can't start from internal HDD but can if attached via an USB adapter
Hi I have the problem that Windows10 cant boot from my internal hard drive. Windows always displays that it was not shutdown properly and I have the option to trouble shoot in an advanced boot menu (...
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Changes to Windows System Disk to Be Able to Boot from USB
I have a regular Windows system disk connected via SATA and booting as drive C, no issues, everything normal, on a regular whatever (desktop, laptop, etc.).
If I disconnect the drive from the ...
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PCI-e sata drive as boot device
I have an acer desktop pc. I have diagnosed that the motherboard sata controller is defective.
I have bought this card in hopes that I could connect my hard drive to it.
But when I try to boot, PC ...
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Changed SATA port, BIOS detects the drive and has it in correct boot order but still can't boot
I recently built a new PC, and for organizational purposes, I moved the graphics card to another PCIex16 slot, which meant that I had to change the SATA ports for my SSD (boot drive) and my HDD. After ...
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Cannot boot windows after HDD change
I got PC with MSI n1996 motherboard and a SATA HDD. My HDD broke down so I had to change it. I changed it with a PATA HDD. After I installed it to pc, wanted to start it. It didn't boot the win10 that ...
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Computer 'clicking' and HDD's undetected
My homebuilt 2007 Intel Pentium E2180 system is having serious hard drive problems . This is the story ......
So , today , I opened my computer because one of the HDD's installed was not getting ...
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Windows won't boot after adding new hard drives
I took two WD external drives, took them apart, and installed them inside my PC. They are attached with sata to a pci expansion card with sata ports.
When they are connected the PC freezes at the "...
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Win10 SATA disk drive disappears, but to knoppix it is ther with a "remove_hiberfile" mount
Tearing my hair out for about a month with this. Gigabyte mobo, win10 upgrade from win8. SATA WD 1TB drive (tho has happened with other SATA). Last time around, I got a win10 install restored to a ...
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Shuttle SZ87R6 with 3x SSHD 2TB hard drives doesn't boot
Hardware:
1x Shuttle SZ87R6 with 500W power supply
1x Intel i7-4790
4x G.Skill 8GB, DDR3-1600, CL10-10-10-30 (F3-12800CL10S-8GBXL)
1x Samsung SSD 850 Evo 250 GB (With linux openSuSE 13.2)
3x Seagate ...
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Speed up PCI SATA controller boot
I have a Conceptronic CSATA600EXI V1, and that thing is REALLY good, but it takes around 10-15 seconds in the BIOS.
I've tried to change the connection to only 1 internal SATA and 1 eSATA, but there ...
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Laptop not booting if sata controller set to AHCI
I have Toshiba Satellite C660
Tried to install Windows7 by selecting Sata controller as AHCI I got this message
Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computers hardware may not support ...
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HDD sometimes not recognised by BIOS during boot-up, not always
I have recently built a new machine with Intel G2030 4GB RAM and Asus H61-M-K mobo. I am using a 160 GB HDD (Seagate) from an old Core2 Duo machine. In the old machine, the BIOS sometimes would not ...
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