because of active partitions
On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 9:35 AM, alcala94109 <alcala94...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Information:
>
> XPS8500 purchased 5/1413.
>
> WIN8
>
> 12GB Memory
>
> After buying the computer, transferred my data drive from my previous HP
> PC to this XPS. The drive is a WDC WD2002FAEX. It's plugged into SATA port
> 2 on the motherboard, did not change any of the existing drive connections
> for OS drive or DVD drive. No OS or other boot files are installed on this
> data drive.
>
> When I reboot the PC, the system recognizes the data drive as the OS
> drive, and obviously fails. If I power down the PC, disconnect the power
> and SATA cable from the data drive, and then power up the PC without the
> data drive connected, the system correctly goes to the OS drive and loads
> the OS.
>
> If I then power down the PC and reconnect the data drive, the system will
> correctly go to the OS drive and load the OS, and recognize the data drive
> as a data drive. If for any reason I reboot the PC then it again will try
> to load the OS from the data drive.
>
> I have been on the phone with Dell support, they remoted in and everything
> is correctly configured, latest drivers, etc., but are not finding a
> similar issue anywhere in their support logs. The time they remoted in the
> system showed the data drive correctly It is still an open ticket with Dell
> support.
>
> Any thoughts on this? First time I have encountered this situation, and
> have been able to transfer data HDs between systems before.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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