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Just bought a new PC with a solid state drive but I decided to buy the best of everything but be a dirty nit with the hard drive, that's sure worked out well.

So I've bought a 2nd ssd today and fitted it but when I cable it up and try and boot the PC up I get the following message...

"reboot and select proper boot device"

Once I totally disconnected the new ssd it worked as normal again, I tried taking the cable out of the 1st ssd and only have the new one connected but I got the same error message, anyone any ideas please ?

Any help much appreciated.

At least Tom won't bother tilting you now  ;D

LOL.

I'd say it's reading the new one as the main drive, which has no windows on it so won't boot. I sure can help with solution though. Is there a way to swap them around?

Did you take the first SSD out, and then fit the new SSD with the same cables/plugs?  Or did you use another set of cables/plugs to attach it?

Have you tried switching it off and on? No really. It cures almost everything. Go on, try it.

At 1st I kept the first one as it was and then used a different sata cable from the new ssd to the motherboard and attached they other neccesary cable (no idea what it's called). Once that didn't work I took the cables out the one that's working and put them into the new one, this gave the same error message.

I don't like changing cables around without having the PC switched off, so yeah it was switched off an on multiple times, sadly this didn't fix it, somehow.

If it were that though it would say insert cd to boot from as it did when Windows wasn't on the 1st drive.

Probably just your bios settings.

Whack the second drive back in and restart your pc.

Access the bios menu, usually just tapping f10 whilst starting up will get you in.

There should be some settings there relating to a second drive. Just set everything to auto detect and you're away.

I googled the error which mentioned bios so I tried that, it was set to 1st boat option is the 1st sdd drive, 2nd option is the new drive so that should be correct no ?

Are you sure you're doing it right?


http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=61002.msg1767292#msg1767292

Are you sure you've got them in the right order?

It might be that your 2nd SSD is actually the one your PC recognises as the first.

Try switching the order in BIOS and see what happens. You can always switch it back if it doesn't help.

It's definitely right because I've already had to mess around with bios as they didn't connect it up properly in the first place.

Well it's fucked then.

Haha, that's what I get for moaning about running too good :P

Obviously don't know your model etc.. but is there a a Select Boot Device option on first boot? Might have to press F12 or ESC to get this (this is different from the BIOS). dependent on the type of machine you should get options like

PXE/LAN
DVD/CD ROM DRIVE
HDD/Hard Drive
SSD

Try selecting the hard drive(HDD) and see if it boots. Definitely echoing what EvilPie had said boot order seems wrong as if you disconnect and it still works something is taking the SSD as boot priority 1.

Then if you can get it up and running defo use this guide to migrate your OS: http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid+state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows

Nice one tyty, will try this.

...and?

Busy playing a sat on other PC atm, will lyk :P

Anyone hot any ideas on how to fix my old one?

Keep getting "error loading operating system"

Read about it & apparently I need windows putting back on it or something, but disk drive doesn't work anyway...

Computer is sorted, thanks.

I tried doing what Suited Jock said, so I reconnected the new ssd and whilst I was trying to find the option to boot it, I missed it and the computer just loaded up, lol computers.

Think it was because I put the SATA cable in a different port.

Next bit...

What antivirus software do people use these days ?

I won't actually be going on the internet ever but need one still I assume since using Stars, TN etc ?

Microsoft security essentials will do the job.

http://www.downloadinfo.co/review/microsoft-security-essentials/?kw=microsoft+security+essentials&subid=DIMSUK&cust=microsoft+security+essentials&type=msec&gclid=CIbK3bPrgbcCFfQZtAodh0MA0g&utm_campaign=DIMSUK&fwd=1

This

You will be going on the internet if you're using stars. You might not be using the web though, which I guess is what you mean ;)

(pedant ITT)

I wouldn't vouch for it, but I also use Microsoft Security Essentials.

Cheers all, except Kinboshi, std.

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