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Hi, I just got one of the new 1.5tb Samsung EcoGreen hard drives. Before fitting it in my case, I removed my 74gb Raptor (Windows drive) from its bay and mounted it with sewing elastic in a 5.25" optical bay to reduce the noise (which seems to have worked very well BTW, much quieter now).
Anyway, I then put the new Samsung drive where the Raptor was before and booted up my machine. After POST I got an error message:
Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.
I rebooted, went into BIOS and all the drives were recognised. The Raptor wasn't first priority in the boot list though, so I moved it to the top but that didn't make any difference.
I then tried to use the "bootcfg /add" command in the Windows recovery console. It found my Windows installation on the Raptor and added it to the boot list fine, but I still got the same error when rebooting.
I decided to install XP on the new Samsung drive so I could actually get into Windows and try and find out what was wrong. Once it was fully installed and the PC rebooted, it now gave me the option to boot into either of the 2 XP installations (the one on the Raptor and the new one on the Samsung). I chose the 2nd option - which was my original XP installation on the Raptor - and everything loaded fine, all my files and settings are in tact
Does anyone know what caused the problem and if it's safe to reformat the new Samsung drive, or will the error come back again if I do that? It's not too much of a hassle, just means I've got to choose which XP to load at bootup and theres just over a gigabyte of wasted space on my new drive with the needless XP installation, but it would be nice to have things back to normal.
Cheers.
Anyway, I then put the new Samsung drive where the Raptor was before and booted up my machine. After POST I got an error message:
Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.
I rebooted, went into BIOS and all the drives were recognised. The Raptor wasn't first priority in the boot list though, so I moved it to the top but that didn't make any difference.
I then tried to use the "bootcfg /add" command in the Windows recovery console. It found my Windows installation on the Raptor and added it to the boot list fine, but I still got the same error when rebooting.
I decided to install XP on the new Samsung drive so I could actually get into Windows and try and find out what was wrong. Once it was fully installed and the PC rebooted, it now gave me the option to boot into either of the 2 XP installations (the one on the Raptor and the new one on the Samsung). I chose the 2nd option - which was my original XP installation on the Raptor - and everything loaded fine, all my files and settings are in tact
Does anyone know what caused the problem and if it's safe to reformat the new Samsung drive, or will the error come back again if I do that? It's not too much of a hassle, just means I've got to choose which XP to load at bootup and theres just over a gigabyte of wasted space on my new drive with the needless XP installation, but it would be nice to have things back to normal.
Cheers.
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