HP d530 CMT

[Phaihn]

How do you get this Computer to boot from the Sata HDD with out any IDE HDDs?

[ratdude747]

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it should by default. my dad's did that when i used to run sata on it. be sure that sata is enabled in the bios.

[Phaihn]

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it is it shows up with the ide hard drives but when i put to sata over ide then it bitchs about it and i cant boot the system jusst says none system disk.

[Junk Parts]

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Is the OS on the IDE drive or the SATA drive. If you are booting from the SATA drive the OS has to be on SATA "boot" drive to work. If it isn't on the boot drive then all the PC will see is a empty nonbootable drive at startup.

[PCBONEZ]

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Check BIOS settings.

[Phaihn]

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Is the OS on the IDE drive or the SATA drive. If you are booting from the SATA drive the OS has to be on SATA "boot" drive to work. If it isn't on the boot drive then all the PC will see is a empty nonbootable drive at startup.

yeah the OS is on the sata drive theres also a OS on the IDE drive as well but i want the system to run without the IDE drives connected.

[Phaihn]

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Check BIOS settings.

Did that but no matter what i did i cant get it to work the way i want all i get is none system disk msg.

[lucky13]

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What OS are on these drives?

If Vista, you might have to do a boot repair using your vista boot disk.

[Phaihn]

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Windows XP HOME

[Phaihn]

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Well i seem to have found my answer not completely what i was looking for but good nuth,

[ratdude747]

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i bet the master boot record is not active on the SATA. try re-installing (a retail xp home cd will work, find a torrent, or use a linux cd) and then try again. the bootloadr is only on one drive based on your symptoms. re-installing should fix it. be sure to unplug the ide drive first.

[Phaihn]

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idk i got it doing what i want it to do so i thinks i am going to let it be for now i dont feel like reinstalling windows again this week.

[Phaihn]

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Had to copy some files from the other hard drive like the boot.ini file an ntdlr files then edited the boot file and left it blank so now when i start the system it just says invalid boot ini and boots from the C;/windows and thats what i want it to do in the first place.

[Phaihn]

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Ok copied the boot.ini from my computer now it works like i wanted it to.

[ratdude747]

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good. that works too.

at least it wasnt like in linux where you could install the boot loader on an olg 6gb drive to allow booting to a non-bootable drive (a raid array on a non-bootable card). in that case, both drives must be present for it to work. but then again, linux has cds that let you re-install the boot loader only.

[Phaihn]

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But it still shows up as E and not C

[gdement]

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Not sure if this relates to your problem, but if there's multiple drives installed then this explains how the letters get handed out:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/51978

That article was written for MS-DOS, but in my experience it's also correct for Windows, including default letters assigned by WinNt/2k/XP/etc.

Under NT series, it's possible to change the drive letters post-install from within the OS, but that can cause problems with programs that think stuff is installed on a different letter.

[ratdude747]

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re-install or ignore it- it will still screw it up. drive letters is a bit dumb when you think of it... unix-like systems dont use them and we dont get this problem...

[Phaihn]

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Not sure if this relates to your problem, but if there's multiple drives installed then this explains how the letters get handed out:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/51978

That article was written for MS-DOS, but in my experience it's also correct for Windows, including default letters assigned by WinNt/2k/XP/etc.

Under NT series, it's possible to change the drive letters post-install from within the OS, but that can cause problems with programs that think stuff is installed on a different letter.

lol i cant even begine to understand all that.

i installed Windows xp when the other 2 ide drives were hooked up and i now i have disconnected is that why it could still be showing up as E?

[Phaihn]

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re-install or ignore it- it will still screw it up. drive letters is a bit dumb when you think of it... unix-like systems dont use them and we dont get this problem...

I may try thrawing in my hard drive from my computer to see what the drive letter shows up as.