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Booting 2 hard drives?

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psyren:
2 options:
You cannot configure your BIOS properly, or;
Your BIOS is retarded.

fohfoh:
You should be able to change which HDD you boot. Don't know how? Just do it manually for the first few times via Bios.

OR.

Load ONLY your old HDD, get something like GParted or something and wipe that shit clean. (AFAIK, windows doesn't allow you to delete windows file components even if it's not on the primary HDD.)

Go back and have your backed up shit ready and load onto the old one.

bloody000:

The bootloader is on your old drive's MBR.
Connect ONLY your new drive, then use the recovery functions on the Win7 disc.
After that connect all drives and tell your BIOS to boot from your new drive first, should work.

kureshii:
You might need to enable to boot flag on the second HDD as well (can be done using GParted too.) Win7 recovery will probably do this for you, I think.

Xiong Chiamiov:

--- Quote from: bloody000 on November 16, 2009, 07:01:43 AM ---
The bootloader is on your old drive's MBR.
Connect ONLY your new drive, then use the recovery functions on the Win7 disc.
After that connect all drives and tell your BIOS to boot from your new drive first, should work.

--- End quote ---
IIRC, fixmbr does this, but don't take my word on it.

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