Torturednacho
MIS
So here's the deal. About a 2 weeks ago I went out and purchased a WD Caviar Black
1 TB, SATA 3 Gb/s, 32 MB Cache, 7200 RPM internal drive.
Over the course of the week, I installed win64 on it and started moving over all my data from my other hard drive
WD Caviar Green
1 TB, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache
Everything has been working just fine. I can boot into either HD, I can do everything I need to do no problems.
Now, I was finally done moving all my data from the GREEN to the BLACK. So I was on the BLACK, burnt an iso of Linux Mint KDE 9. Went perfect, Pop the cd in the drive. It was running of the "live" for about 10minutes. So I go to install it and wanted it on the full GREEN, however on the install it noticed both HDD's. So without actually knowing which drive was the GREEN. I shut down the install, powered off the machine and removed the power and sata cable to the BLACK. Booted the machine back up and installed Mint KDE 9, Installed perfect, I was on it ran some updates and started getting the system setup. I shutdown the machine and plugged the sata cable back into the BLACK. Then started the boot process. Now at this time is when it should let me choose what HDD I want to boot into, but this isn't the case. Now it's just putting me right into the GREEN with KDE MINT 9 on it. Tried to reboot a couple more time. No go it will not see the BLACK (Winxp64). Jump into bios it sees everything just fine. Switch around the boot priority putting the BLACK first. I then get the following error
Reboot or select proper boot device or insert media to boot
.. So I log into the GREEN KDE MINT 9. It see's the drive and I can access all of the data on the drive. Power down the machine switch the sata cables and ports. Still same boot device error. Toss in my windows cd lastnight and let the chkdsk /r run ..It ran for around 4hrs.
Woke up this morning and seen it was complete. Did a FIXBOOT command and it gave me an error about no system boot found. Ran a FIXMBR and it created a new MBR with /HARDDRIVE0/ (Which I thought was always suppose to be 1 if the partition was the whole drive).
So now I come to post here. I'm completely lost and I'm out of options. I've done everything I can think of besides either trying to flash the bios (Which I doubt will do anything) Or try and find a MBR on the net for my configuration of winxp64.
Sorry for the long winded post. I just feel like this is something stupid and wanted to give all the details I could for a correct analysts of what is going on.
So.. Any Ideas?
Thanks!
James
1 TB, SATA 3 Gb/s, 32 MB Cache, 7200 RPM internal drive.
Over the course of the week, I installed win64 on it and started moving over all my data from my other hard drive
WD Caviar Green
1 TB, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache
Everything has been working just fine. I can boot into either HD, I can do everything I need to do no problems.
Now, I was finally done moving all my data from the GREEN to the BLACK. So I was on the BLACK, burnt an iso of Linux Mint KDE 9. Went perfect, Pop the cd in the drive. It was running of the "live" for about 10minutes. So I go to install it and wanted it on the full GREEN, however on the install it noticed both HDD's. So without actually knowing which drive was the GREEN. I shut down the install, powered off the machine and removed the power and sata cable to the BLACK. Booted the machine back up and installed Mint KDE 9, Installed perfect, I was on it ran some updates and started getting the system setup. I shutdown the machine and plugged the sata cable back into the BLACK. Then started the boot process. Now at this time is when it should let me choose what HDD I want to boot into, but this isn't the case. Now it's just putting me right into the GREEN with KDE MINT 9 on it. Tried to reboot a couple more time. No go it will not see the BLACK (Winxp64). Jump into bios it sees everything just fine. Switch around the boot priority putting the BLACK first. I then get the following error
Reboot or select proper boot device or insert media to boot
.. So I log into the GREEN KDE MINT 9. It see's the drive and I can access all of the data on the drive. Power down the machine switch the sata cables and ports. Still same boot device error. Toss in my windows cd lastnight and let the chkdsk /r run ..It ran for around 4hrs.
Woke up this morning and seen it was complete. Did a FIXBOOT command and it gave me an error about no system boot found. Ran a FIXMBR and it created a new MBR with /HARDDRIVE0/ (Which I thought was always suppose to be 1 if the partition was the whole drive).
So now I come to post here. I'm completely lost and I'm out of options. I've done everything I can think of besides either trying to flash the bios (Which I doubt will do anything) Or try and find a MBR on the net for my configuration of winxp64.
Sorry for the long winded post. I just feel like this is something stupid and wanted to give all the details I could for a correct analysts of what is going on.
So.. Any Ideas?
Thanks!
James