[K3PZN-List] Who is the resident computer expert of the club ??

[Andy Leeds]

1st thing is to pull the drive you installed today and make sure it 
still boots off the internal disk.

The USB disk should be hotplug unless something very strange is going 
on, so with the system booted connect that device and make sure the OS 
sees it and things are OK.

To work out the boot issues check the BIOS boot order and see if it 
added the new USB device to the top causing the SATA or IDE drive to 
fall off the bottom of the list.

Andy



On 1/5/2010 18:43, Sean Shaffer wrote:
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> I may have done something stupid but can't quite tell.
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> I may need another pair of eyes on something.
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> I installed a 500GB hard drive into an old PC
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> (not quite that old, 2003-ish maybe).
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> All was well, I copied my data to it and only had to
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> fix the bootloader.
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> For a week it worked without issues.
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> Today I had everything turned off, plugged it all into
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>   a new surge protector, plugged in a second usb
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> external drive and turned it all back on.
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> On reboot all I get is the PXE net boot option and a
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> message that no boot device is found and I should
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> the cables.
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> I tried 3 IDE cables and 2 power cables, I cannot get
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> the IDE drives (either the new one or the old one) to
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> be recognized.
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> DVD/CD still works, I can run off boot discs or LiveCDs
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> Sean KB3IMT
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