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Why does disabling ATA fix "run_interrupt_driven_hooks still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config" in FreeBSD?
Why did it work?
Why did the 5. step solve the problem? What is so special about disabling ATA which removed the run_interrupt_driven_hooks still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config error?
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BIOS hangs when SATA drive is attached, works with hotplug
The American Megatrends BIOS (latest version as of manufacturer) of a Shuttle XPC SH87R6 hangs at the very beginning (not even showing the CPU type) whenever a WD 3.0TB SATA harddisk is attached. It's ...
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Asmedia 106x SATA Controller preventing boot
Recently I bought a DeLOCK 89384 PCIe card with 10 SATA 6Gb/s ports.
However, after installing it, I'd get the message below, preventing the OS
to boot and after a few seconds I'd get a reboot and ...
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HDD not booting or (consistently) showing up in BIOS
I have an Asus X555DA laptop that hadn't been booting. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what caused this previous problem. In an attempt to fix it I tried to install Ubuntu. Although the ...
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Silicon Image 3114 SATA PCI card modifies boot order and prevents from booting from CD
I have an old spare machine (P4 2,8 GHz, 2 GiB RAM) which I'd like to reuse as a small home media/archive server with a few SATA disks. I do have an Asus P4PE with BIOS version 1007 and obtained a ...
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SSD appears to become disconnected from computer randomly each day
The SSD is a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB drive.
I've been dealing with an issue for at least the past month where around once a day my computer will completely freeze. The first go around, I was pretty ...
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System won't boot if I connect SATA hard disk
I had an old PC with an Atom processor, two SATA hard disks with 40 GB and 160 GB each.
Recently I upgraded my PC, got a Gigabyte H61M DS2 Motherboard, 2 GB of RAM and Core I3 processor.
But ...
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Can I boot Windows 10 installed on a SATA SSD/HDD from USB3 via SATA to USB adapter?
First of all I'm not trying to clone.
I just have a laptop with a dead internal SATA port. The drive is still alive and I want to boot via a USB3 adapter.
It gets part way through the boot when it ...
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Centos 4.8 not booting after replacement disk controller
I have a quite old Centos 4.8 backup. Root partition is on LVM. (/dev/mapper/centos-root).
This backup (tar.gz archive) works fine if i restore it in Vmware cluster with SCSI controller.
But now i ...
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Partial boot after replacing SATA controller
I am just a hobbyist who has had pretty good success dealing with computer issues by finding good instructions, following them and researching troubleshooting when something didn't work. So when an ...
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INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE M.2 SATA
I'm absolutely at my wits' end with this issue: I'm getting INACCESSIBLE BOOT DEVICE when cloning a M.2 SATA SSD to an NVMe one. I can always format and reinstall Windows but nevertheless, I would ...
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Ability to selectively boot Windows 10 from two separate drives on same PC
I have an ASUS Maximus XI Hero Wifi Motherboard with three drives attached: a m.2 Samsung 970 EVO, a SATA Samsung 860 EVO, and a big SATA WD Red old fashioned spinner. The m.2 970 EVO has my Win 10 ...
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SSD only booting when connected with USB, not with SATA
I'm trying to connect a SSD to my Windows 10 IoT device via SATA but when I try to boot I get a BSOD during startup saying Incompatible boot device. One or two times I also got the error saying that ...
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Cloned windows to SSD, but not in boot sequence and no OS found
Machine is a Dell Optiplex 380 (refurbished) with Windows 10 preinstalled.
I installed a Drevo SSD and since I moved the DVD sata cable from it's slot in the motherboard and connected the SSD there ...
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Windows 10 refuses to install on certain drive
A couple days ago I bought new notebook without OS. At first I installed Windows 10 on stock HDD drive - everything went ok. Then I decided to replace it with with SSD from my old laptop which is ...
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SSD died after BSOD
I was playing a game on Windows 10 when I got a BSoD telling me "Critical process has died", collecting the info took incredible long so I shut the laptop down via ACPI (waited for nearly 20 minutes ...
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SATA devices not recognized by BIOS
I recently completed a build using an ASUS M5A97 R2.0 motherboard. I booted the computer for the first time, went to intall Ubuntu from a USB drive, and my HDD was not shown in the menu for ...
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Can't boot from hard drive, otherwise fine
TL;DR: Stopped being able to boot from a drive, but it appears to work otherwise, what should I do with it?
I've had a couple of Crucial SSDs since late 2011. No real issues, aside from one of them ...
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ECS Elitegroup KV2 lite 1.0 Motherboard doesn't detect SATA drive and takes forever to load BIOS
my problem is as follows:
I was connecting a (bootable) SATA hard drive to the 'ECS Elitegroup KV 2 lite 1.0'
in my friends rig, which already had two IDE hard drives (one with bootable Windows XP) ...
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Windows 7 will not boot unless I enter the BIOS or try to boot from CD
I have an amazingly confounding problem.
A friend has an HP Pavilion P6000 series computer circa 2010. Recently, a storm came through and flickered the power a few times in rapid succession. After ...
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Lots of fun problems with RAID and SATA controllers
I bought a used 3ware raid card off of ebay a few months back and set up four 1TB caviar blacks in RAID5. The hardware raid could only manage about 5MB/s writing without write caching, and I don't ...
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HDD not booting over SATA, only over USB
So today I finally restarted my computer after something like 20 days and upon booting it just froze on the Lenovo starting screen. Upon trying to fix the problem, I discovered that unplugging my ...
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Booting Ubuntu from Sata USB not working. Will it work if installed in laptop?
I have a 2016 ASUS X556UA laptop. It has a windows SSD drive installed. I connected a Ubuntu SSD via a SATA to USB drive. (It boots using this method on an even older laptop.)
Here is the BIOS boot ...
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Desktop PC with RAID won't boot
I'm trying to fix my dads PC (Windows 10) being on holiday at my parents place. He has a RAID Volume installed, built of 2 SATA discs where at least one disk seems to be corrupt - it makes an ugly ...
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Changed from AHCI to RAID and now Windows won't boot
I've got 2 SSDs, one for Windows and one for Linux Mint. I have another 4 HDDs I turned into a RAID 0 array via my BIOS. Mobo is ASUS TUF X570.
I had the 4 HDDs in a Microsoft storage pool but started ...
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Can I remove a hard disk from the boot menu?
I have two hard disks installed in my PC. When I boot up my PC and press F8 to reach the boot menu, then I am faced with three options:
1) CDROM:PM-TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-322
2) SATA:PS-ST31000524AS
3) ...
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SATA M.2 drive on non NVMe enabled bios
Can you boot a SATA M.2 drive from old mainboard?
The thing is, that I don't use this SATA M.2 anymore for my drive, and wanted to put it to my NAS box.
But I know for sure, that my NAS box doesn't ...
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Boot from something other than original hard drive
I have a Dell Precision T7400 running Windows 7, BIOS version A02. Windows 7 is stored between 2 1TB SATA hard drives.
I recently obtained some SATA drives with another OS, but I cannot boot from ...
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Odd "Non System Disk..." Error
I found a number of similar questions covering this, but didn't find anything that was a very close match. If I missed something, I'm sorry, and I'm more than happy to check that out.
I have an HP ...
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HDD works when plugged in via USB SATA, but not internal SATA?
I have a client's laptop HDD that will boot (slowly) to Windows 10 if plugged in with my USB to SATA adapter connector, but won't boot if plugged directly into the standard on-board hard drive bay of ...
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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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Motherboard Dying? AHCI Drive Init and boot loop intermittent failure
My computer is now intermittently failing to boot up.
For the last couple of days, when I turn it on it hangs on "AHCI Drive Init...", and when powered off and on again, it booted up fine.
Today, it ...
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Motherboard refuses to boot from SATA HDD
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this. It seemed like the closest fit in the SX sites, and this meta post seemed to suggest it was the right place. Here goes!
My computer has recently ...
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Desktop won't boot with two drives
I am trying to startup the computer with two drives; one is connected with SATA(Windows XP, 40G) and the other with IDE(blank, 80G). With just the SATA drive, it boots fine, but when I add the other ...
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BIOS wont boot (code 66) when Sata drive connected
When I can to one of my computers today it was showing Intel's splash screen (two intel logos, BIOS Settings: 'F2' and '66'.
The board is an intel dp55wb.
Pressing F2 does nothing.
However, when I ...
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