Thanks for that - an example of why I whinge about the use of IDE to mean PATA rather than SATA.
>From Google - that would be a 657094-001 656933-001 chipset Q77 LGA1155 BTX motherboard And that has EFI and UEFI Possibly RAID BIOS & MBR save/protection So that's lots of possibilities to stop the system booting or loading an OS from a drive that is 'added' to the system, rather than being setup on the system. So this is considered ended - Until they try the upgrade again. Doing any upgrade I try to create a small partition near the front of the drive for use as a maintenance OS And use a 'pucker' windows DVD to install an OS - with boot facility on it while it's in the hardware Then - to get the startup to be multi-OS, install a second instance of the OS into a second partition You can delete, or overwrite that second partition and the BOOT facility with OS selection should still be selected from the first partition. Then put a partition maintenance facility and backup/restore facility onto the maintenance OS partition. When you have installed whatever OS you want to run as the default - change the default in the startup OS selection. And - copy the boot and start-up stuff to the normal OS (as a backup - save of those files) JimB From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jimmy Tran Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 8:43 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on it I meant IDE/compatibility mode for SATA. No PATA on the motherboard. Bios is set to boot the sata port the drive is connected to. Source machine is a dell optiplex 755 desktop model and replacement machine is an HP Elite 8300 SFF. Again nothing to do here anymore, they are back with their old PC. Thanks! [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Button Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 12:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on it Jimmy, Am I correct in assuming by IDE you mean PATA IDE rather than SATA IDE As in both types of drive are IDE as they come with 'Integrated Drive Electronics' - the bit (board) that goes between the cable and the inside of the drive - motors etc. If so, then have you only got the 1 drive in the system and, if the connection cable is one that is marked Primary and Secondary, have you got the jumpers on the drive set correctly to match the cable connection being used, AND if there is another device on the cable is that jumpered to be the alternate of the Primary and Secondary Also - again, is the BIOS in the board set to allow the device on that port to be booted from, and is the Booting partition on the drive set as ACTIVE & PRIMARY AGAIN - if you tell us the motherboard and BIOS details you can be given specific help! AGAIN - if you tell us the hard drive details and partitions setup can be given help that is even more specific! JimB From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jimmy Tran Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 8:18 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on it I did check and both are IDE. The owner got frustrated and just decided to take the larger, cloned HDD in the original PC. No longer need to make it work on a quad core till he bitches and moans again. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Mediger Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 9:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: move hdd with windows 7 on it Another tid-bit in case you haven't resolved this yet. In the bios there is a setting for SATA relating to hdd's Change it from ACHI to IDE (sorry don't recall exact wording and is different with each bios). I swap hardware all the time, usually dual core to i5 quad core, very few issues with Windows 7. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jimmy Tran Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 9:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it Hi all, Got a dual core Pentium pc with windows 7 home on it. I cloned the hdd and installed it in a quad core i5 pc. It fails to boot and give the error "boot selection failed because required device is inaccessible" 0xc000000e. I obviously want to prevent from reinstalling the OS. Is the problem because I'm going from a dual to a quad core CPU? Does anyone know? Thanks, Jimmy **Warning** Any technical data is or may be controlled under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and may not be exported, released, or disclosed to foreign nationals without proper authorization by the U.S. Department of State." 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