Re: New harddisks don't boot when old harddisks are disconnected.

However not all is well,

After doing this Windows 7 says it's not genuine ?!

I might have to re-apply a crack ?!? HUH ?! =D LOL.

Bye,
Skybuck =D

Ok, the crack is still working it's nice.

It's kinda amazing cause it probably has certificates as well, so the whole
certificate idea don't work :P*

Windows 7 now nicely boots from it's own disk.

Doing this also solved a little boot issue, I got a boot menu previously
because I tried to add boot options for booting from vhd... but that never
worked... that's now nicely gone...

So now I can turn on my computer and it will directly boot into windows 7...
so no more waiting for error messages.

However the error message at boot also had an adventage... if my system ever
crashed or resetted itself at night I would be able to tell because of the
boot screen halting the boot process !

So point being: "automatic boot" is a bit dangerous !

But so far I am going to like it... it does save me from having to baby sit
the boot process and press enter all the time ! =D

Now I shall have to transfer a lot of usefull files from my old drives, like
music...

I really should copy those to a VHD or so... so I can always have them with
me... but it will probably be gigabytes !

It's amazing how many files are still on old drives...

For now I will continue using old drives, since I am too lazy to reinstall
everything again... bleh !

Another option might be to clone the disks into vhd's... the first old one
has already a clone...

Maybe I will clone the second one as well...

I think that will probably be the smartest !

Though I also want a duplicate of the music so I can transfer just that !

Also some weird has happened to drive order:

New Drive C is still C
New Drive F is still F

But the other two got swapped: to D (data) and E (system).

While this is not a problem I was used a bit to D(system)...
I am not sure why it's swapped it's a bit odd... I tried to swap it in bios
but seemed to have no effect.

I suspect the disk order in Asrock bios must be interleaved with the new
disks.... maybe that will straighten it out...

But for now I am going to let it be... usually I want to access data anyway
so this new order might actually be more nice ! =D

So many old tools on that old disk... gjez ! LOL.

Bye,
Skybuck.