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#1 OFFLINE   tylerpomroy

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Posted 14 April 2009 - 11:27 PM

Hi guys,
I have installed in my pc, 2 hard drives(both with windows installed). When i select to boot from the second hard drive ,it doesn't work anymore,it starts all the time from the 1 hard drive(master). It was working a few days ago ,to boot from the second hard drive sad.

Anyone know what is the wrong thing i had done?
Any suggestions?

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Posted 15 April 2009 - 07:01 AM

View Posttylerpomroy, on Apr 15 2009, 09:27 AM, said:

Hi guys,
I have installed in my pc, 2 hard drives(both with windows installed). When i select to boot from the second hard drive ,it doesn't work anymore,it starts all the time from the 1 hard drive(master). It was working a few days ago ,to boot from the second hard drive sad.

Anyone know what is the wrong thing i had done?
Any suggestions?

If you set drive 2 as master will it boot, there may be something wrong with the os install?
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Posted 15 April 2009 - 12:10 PM

Welcome to Piriform tylerpomroy.

View Posttylerpomroy, on Apr 14 2009, 11:27 PM, said:

I have installed in my pc, 2 hard drives(both with windows installed). When i select to boot from the second hard drive ,it doesn't work anymore,it starts all the time from the 1 hard drive(master). It was working a few days ago ,to boot from the second hard drive sad.

Anyone know what is the wrong thing i had done?
Any suggestions?

Have you set the switches on the second drive to Slave? You can't have 2 Master drives running at the same time. Which version of Windows do you have on your drives?

If you now say it doesn't work anymore, did it work correctly at some point? ;)
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