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i' have had 2 HDDs on my PC for a little while now, and recently my older HDD died, So I pulled it out and installed windows onto my 2nd HDD, which is a SATA. Once I installed windows and rebooted it, i got stopped with this message

Verifying DMI Pool Data ...........
Error loading operating system

I cannot figure this out for the life of me. I thought it may have been a scratched windows CD, but i tried a back-up copy and had the same problem.

Anyone know what i am doing wrong? Thanks for the help in advance :grin:
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JohnthePilot
bassmann said:
i' have had 2 HDDs on my PC for a little while now, and recently my older HDD died, So I pulled it out and installed windows onto my 2nd HDD, which is a SATA. Once I installed windows and rebooted it, i got stopped with this message

Verifying DMI Pool Data ...........
Error loading operating system

I cannot figure this out for the life of me. I thought it may have been a scratched windows CD, but i tried a back-up copy and had the same problem.

Anyone know what i am doing wrong? Thanks for the help in advance :grin:
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Have you reconfigured your BIOS so that it recognises the 2nd drive as your boot drive?
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I think so, I set the primary boot device back to HD (from CD). and my "HD boot priority" has that HD at the top of the list. Is there any other settings i must change? does a SATA HD need to have special settings set to run an OS?
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boot into the recovery console and try
fixboot
you did make the partition active?
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Just a thought

I'm just a novice so perhaps one of the techs could respond to you about this....

Did you check the jumper settings on the back of the HD when you moved it? Master or Slave or Select... it might give headaches if not set right.

I always try the small stuff first.
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