More computer help please.

[mondatoo]

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.

[Woodsey]

At least Tom won't bother tilting you now  

[mondatoo]

At least Tom won't be bother tilting you now 

LOL.

[MC]

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?

[kinboshi]

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?

[RED-DOG]

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

[mondatoo]

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?

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.

[mondatoo]

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

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.

[mondatoo]

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?

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

[EvilPie]

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.

[mondatoo]

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 ?

[RED-DOG]

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

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.

Are you sure you're doing it right?


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

[EvilPie]

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'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.

[mondatoo]

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'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.

[EvilPie]

Well it's fucked then.