I've been using the setup as shown in my signature without problems for at least a couple of years. My wife powered up the PC yesterday and it came up with DISK BOOT FAILURE PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK. After a bit of help from friends, one of them suggested I tried one of the SATA cables in a different socket. I tried it in SATA2 socket and it booted up OK. SATA1-4 sockets use NVIDIA, SATA5-8 use Silicon Image which I've been using until this evening.
With both drives connected they are shown in hardware in profile as Primary and Secondary ATA drives. If I try the other drive by itself in the socket this one I now working with I get error beeps or DISK BOOT FAILURE MESSAGE.
Is the drive had it or any other ideas? If the drive is no good, can I replace it with another SATA-II drive of equal or greater size?
Thanks.
With both drives connected they are shown in hardware in profile as Primary and Secondary ATA drives. If I try the other drive by itself in the socket this one I now working with I get error beeps or DISK BOOT FAILURE MESSAGE.
Is the drive had it or any other ideas? If the drive is no good, can I replace it with another SATA-II drive of equal or greater size?
Thanks.
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