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SATA drive not detected

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  • 15-06-2011 8:53pm
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    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭


    I've just made a new build. It POSTs fine and I can see the hard drive in the BIOS however it then complains with "Reboot and select proper boot device".

    Now I took this drive from my other Dell PC with Windows 7 and my programs installed. Surely it should boot to windows in the new PC and not make my re-install it?


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    antocann
    Registered Users Posts: 1,348 ✭✭✭antocann


    quarryman wrote: »
    I've just made a new build. It POSTs fine and I can see the hard drive in the BIOS however it then complains with "Reboot and select proper boot device".

    Now I took this drive from my other Dell PC with Windows 7 and my programs installed. Surely it should boot to windows in the new PC and not make my re-install it?

    more than likely you gota re-install it through the new machine


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    deconduo
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,281 Mod ✭✭✭✭deconduo


    You can't just take out a hard drive from one machine and put in into another :P

    You need to do a fresh install of windows when you get a new computer.


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    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    deconduo wrote: »
    You can't just take out a hard drive from one machine and put in into another :P

    You need to do a fresh install of windows when you get a new computer.

    Ye know, that's what I always thought too then one day I tried it and it worked in another machine, was hoping to get lucky again :)


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    Monotype
    Registered Users Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭Monotype


    You could try booting from the windows disc and doing a repair. Did you delete the boot partition or anything?


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    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Yeah I tried a repair but no joy. Ended up re-installing windows. At least it wasn't hardware!


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