Mike Cloaked wrote:
In fact with no alteration in the BIOS settings at all - once the new HD was
in place I interrupted the boot with F12 and selected the optical drive to
start PartedMagic from the liveDVD - exactly this process worked once the
new drive was in place where it failed to do so with the dead HD in place -
that is something I never experienced before.
It may have been that the drive was detected, but was not responding
to the request for drive information. The system will hang for a
long time waiting for the drive to spin up and respond. You can run
into the same problem when the BIOS is set to a specific drive
size/type, and you remove that drive. I have also seen it happen
when you put in too large of a drive for the controller.
Mikkel
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