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January 10th, 2017 22:00
Booting with a different drive.
Hi,
I just replaced my Dell with XPS 8910. I would like to temporarily boot with my old HD. Its a WD5000AAKS. I disconnected the HD Dell came with plugged in the old HD, and even though BIOS recognizes it, the computer doesn't boot saying no boot devices found. Its a Windows 10 HD, and it does work in my old computer.
Any ideas ? Are the architectural differences between the HD's that would account for this ?
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ejn63
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January 11th, 2017 08:00
First hurdle: the new system comes with UEFI and secure boot. Those must be OFF.
Second hurdle: the driver set is tied to the original mainboard. Anything as new as the 8910 has a foreign driver set.
Third hurdle: the rest of the driver set.
You may be able to read the drive in the newer system but it will not boot in it.
ejn63
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January 11th, 2017 02:00
Unless the older system is another 8910, it's not going to work - the installation is tied to the hardware on which it was originally installed.
mwatchi
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January 11th, 2017 06:00
The older WD hard drive is from an older Dell, what makes it specific to the hardware ? I thought I could get the 8910 to boot with any bootable HD ? Is there something I can do to get it to boot with a different HD ?
mwatchi
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January 11th, 2017 20:00
Thanks ! Your answered saved me a lot of frustration.
rdunnill
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January 15th, 2017 00:00
It might be able to boot with help from a third-party SATA card. Yesterday, I upgraded an XP install from an Applegate Duron, set up in 2005, to Vista and then 7 on a Studio 540s. Once Windows 7 SP1 was finished updating, I installed a third-party SATA card, set up the drivers, and moved the drive to an ASRock 1150 B85 board. (Now, if only it would upgrade to Windows 10!)