Problems booting with Samsung 1tb

nobbyy87

nobbyy87

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Hi all

Last week you all helped me with getting my PC to recognise my new samsung F1.

I finally got it to recognise it by using a softawre patch to downgrade it from Sata 3 to Sata 1.5.

I took the lazy way out and cloned my originally HD (this was also SATA) but on boot up following the bios it says - insert an appropriate boot medium and then press a key.

I dont do anything else expet press a key and then the boot continues.

Any ideas on how I get rid of this step as its really annoying!! :(
 
I had loads of problems with mine, cloning an old HDD broke it and it showed up as 33mb in the BIOS. Managed to fix that, then did a full format and now its behaving itself.
 
Sounds like you've cloned your old drive but not the bootmgr so the new drive is unbootable.

Did you have more than one drive in your system before you bought the F1? If thats the case Vista may have put its boot manager on a different drive to the one you've cloned.
 
Wow - quick resposnes - thank you!

Have checekd the boot priority and its OK.

Yes I did have a number of HD's in the system - is ther any easy way to add the boot mgr?
 
Not entirely sure to be honest, I did have a look and some people menitoned doing it via DOS but I decided to go for a clean install in the end.

If you do do a clean install, disconnect all but the drive you want to install Vista on, that way it has to put the bootmgr on your main drive.
 
vista or xp ?

Are you running Vista?

If so you can pop in the Vista boot dvd and then repair the installation. I had to do this on mine after cloning my 250GB hdd to my samsung F1 1TB.

It works 100% now, I just need to change the boot menu (from repaired Vista installation).
 
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