Hi there,
Sorry for the delay.
Done all of the above. I've attached the screenshots.
It seems like it was booting to the SSD on the first one as it was a lot faster!
Thanks
John
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Best Answer johnb69 , 12 February 2017 - 12:15 PM
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It seems like it was booting to the SSD on the first one as it was a lot faster!
Yes, it was booting to the SSD.
In the second Disk Management shot, looks like you swapped the SATA cables around, is that Correct?
Hi,
Yes, I swapped them around then restarted.
Thanks
John
OK, got that.
Swap the SATA back again, > power on, > start Disk Management.
It should match the first screenshot in reply #136. Disk 0, © partition, 220,50GB NTFS, Healthy (SYSTEM)
Shut down. Ensure that you now disconnect the SATA cable to the old HDD. > power on, > start disk management.
You should now see only one drive connected and should be, the 220,50GB SSD.
Connect the SSD to the other SATA port and see if it boots.
We now need to try and change the Boot order so we can get rid of the F1 prompt.
Boot to XP, > start Disk Management, > take/save a screenshot.
Restart, > enter Setup, > Use the arrow keys to highlight the Boot Sequence menu option and press Enter. Take a Pic., > go to Exit Menu, > Save setting. > confirm.
Please upload the two images.
Hi John. Thanks for your patience.
You are now booting to the SSD.
Have we got rid of the F1/F2 error prompt at power on?
Hi there,
No problem.
I'm still getting the the error prompt at power on.
Thanks
John
OK.
Reconnect the HDD > power on, > Boot to the desktop, > start Disk Management > take/save a screenshot.
Restart, > enter Setup, > highlight Drives, > press Enter.
The computer boots to the SSD with both drives connected. You receive the F1 prompt if only one drive is connected. We will leave it as is for the moment and decide what to do with the HDD after creating a rescue DVD and a backup image.
Follow the Guide to create a rescue DVD. Accept the Wizard Default settings including the adding of any Drivers recommended. Your screens will look different, i.e. PE 3.1, but the steps are the same,
> http://knowledgebase...ng rescue media
Hi there,
When I try to create a rescue DVD a box comes up in Macrium with 'the device is not ready'.
I press OK 3 times and it starts to burn the disk then tells me that the task is finished.
When I tried booting from the disk to check it was OK, it comes up with an error.
Thanks
John
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