Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: > amd Athlon64 +3400 architecture > > I'm attempting to replace 2 200gb sata drives with 2 750 gb drives. > > All drives concerned are WD. > > And the 2 200gb are attached to a: > Adeptec 1205sa PCI sata card (non-raid) > > The two existing drives have been working fine but need more room so > replacing with 2 750gb. > > I thought I'd try replacing one first and see how it went. > > I hit a snag on the first swap. Pulled out the 200gb and inserted a > 750 but it turns out that the new drive, unlike my older 200gb drives > does not have the old 4pin power connector that I expected. > > I see some other connectors in the wiring harness that look like they > go to the larger (non-data) fitting on these new sata drives. Its > about twice as wide as the data plug but has the same little 90 degree > hook on one end. > > The matching plugs on the wiring harness appear to be made for this so > I go ahead and plug it in, and fire up the machine. > > As boot up proceeds it gets by the brief memory check then comes a > screen saying: > > Press F3 to enter configuration utility > Primary channel: WDC WD750-blah-bah <= my new 750gb drive > > So I guess this is coming from the Adeptec 1205sa card and press > F3... but nothing happens, and no further progress appears possible. > > Rebooting and ignoring the `Press F3' screen doesn't allow boot to > proceed either. > > So I appear to be stuck and unable to boot up. > > The boot disk is not on sata and is not involved in the swap. > > Anyone see anthing similar or have a suggestion. > > > Sounds like the bios is seeing the drives in a different order now to before, and so is trying to boot from the wrong disk....
Can you manually alter the order it tries disks?
