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New hard drive for an old Dell workstation

Started by Delboy101 , Dec 10 2012 04:21 AM

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rshaffer61

Posted 12 December 2012 - 05:12 PM

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Personally I have only used Mandriva and Puppy Linux. Both would do want you need it to do.

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Delboy101

Posted 12 December 2012 - 05:16 PM

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okay thanks I will look into this a bit further

All the best and thanks to all who replied

Delboy

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rshaffer61

Posted 12 December 2012 - 05:59 PM

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Did you try my suggestion with the XP disk?

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Delboy101

Posted 03 January 2013 - 11:20 AM

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Hi Folks

I have just installed a new (well, actually used) hard drive into the PC and I'm having a few problems...

The error message on the screen says:

CERC SATA 2S BIOS for Non Hotplug Drives V2.1-11 2024

Press <CTRL> <A> for Adaptec Raid Configuration Utility!!!

Controller #00 CERC SATA 2S at PCI BUS:0, Dev:1F, Func:02
Loading Configuration...at Port 1

FYI it did the same for another drive I used - maybe coincidence or could it be a problem with something else?

Any advice would be appreciated

All the best

DelBoy