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Re: aargh.

Post by Bigsby » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:43 pm

Bigsby wrote:I'm having my first problem. For some reason, a while after installing a SATA drive as the non-primary, non-boot drive, the bios tries to boot from it. The bios is set to boot from the "Hard-Disk Drive C:", but it tries to boot from the SATA drive, which is F:

I can successfully boot to windows if I hit F12 at startup, go to the boot menu, and select "Primary Master Drive." It boots from my C: drive fine. If I select "Hard-Disk Drive C:," it tries to unsuccessfully boot from F:

I've tried both the 0 and 1 SATA ports on the mother board. It was working fine for a while. At least I can go to the boot menu and get to windows, but if anyone knows the fix for this, please let me know.
doh! I found a helpful thread over on the poweredge forum. I was searchin' wrong.

...IDE drive as primary boot drive and a SATA drive...

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