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P4P800E boots from ext. USB drive after Mirroring drives
I have a P4P800-E Deluxe motherboard.
Originally had 2 P-IDE drives on the primary IDE channel as C: and D: An IDE cdrom on secondary IDE channel and an external USB 2.0 drive. I bought 2 SATA drives. Mirrored the two P-IDE drives to create the C: drive Mirrored the two SATA drives to create the D: drive. Had to set the boot sequence in BIOS to boot from the mirrored P-IDE drives. (Went through a bunch of steps to move the data, built array from exising data, etc) All is well, boots from the original Win-XP image which is mirrored. BUT, when I boot with the external USB drive attached and on, it wants to boot from the USB drive. I have to turnoff the USB to boot, then turn it on afterward to access it. Any way to not have it try to boot from the USB drive? Thanks, Ed P.S. could I have used one P-IDE and one SATA as a mirror set and done the same with the other P-IDE and SATA drive? |
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Any help with this would be great 'cause I have a similar problem; in
fact, mine is even a bit more strange: I have a ZIP-drive that's randomly used on my regular PC and my laptop, so sometimes it's connected to the pc while booting and sometimes it's not. When the ZIP was NOT connected the last time I booted the computer and then I boot the next day with the ZIP attached to the P4P800 again the ZIP is automatically inserted as "Primary Boot-Device" in the bios, shifting my DVD from pos. 1 to 2 and the harddisk from 2 to 3. (Usualy I have my DVD as first and HD as second boot-device). My ZIP-disks are not bootable, so the systems says "invalid or no boot disk". OK, so I remove the drive and reset the computer. It should start now correctly, BUT: After revmoving the ZIP my other devices are NOT moved back into their original status!?! The DVD becomes first, which is OK, but the HD is REMOVED from the boot list (2nd and 3rd boot device show up as emtpy in the bios when checking that). Obviously, the system does NOT boot at all because it does not "see" the HD as a bootable device (btw, IDE-type, no S-ATA). So, each time I remove and reattach the zip drive to my PC from the laptop (which happens at least each weekend) the boot-settings of the bios are f**** up and I have to enter the setup to correct the settings manually. I tried to disable "legacy usb support" which seemed to work on first view, but then some of my other USB devices don't work correctly under XP (SP2); esp. printer and scanner :-((( I also tried to use an admin-password, but that did not help - the settings were still changed "silently" by the bios without notification :-( So: How can Ed O and me lock the list of boot-devices to prevent this USB trouble??? TIA! Dieter Berlin, Germany Ed O schrieb: I have a P4P800-E Deluxe motherboard. Originally had 2 P-IDE drives on the primary IDE channel as C: and D: An IDE cdrom on secondary IDE channel and an external USB 2.0 drive. I bought 2 SATA drives. Mirrored the two P-IDE drives to create the C: drive Mirrored the two SATA drives to create the D: drive. Had to set the boot sequence in BIOS to boot from the mirrored P-IDE drives. (Went through a bunch of steps to move the data, built array from exising data, etc) All is well, boots from the original Win-XP image which is mirrored. BUT, when I boot with the external USB drive attached and on, it wants to boot from the USB drive. I have to turnoff the USB to boot, then turn it on afterward to access it. Any way to not have it try to boot from the USB drive? Thanks, Ed P.S. could I have used one P-IDE and one SATA as a mirror set and done the same with the other P-IDE and SATA drive? |
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Dieter,
Lets hope for an answer. At least my boot sequence does not seem to change in the bios. Wonder if we have the same bios version. Unfortunately this machine is at a client's business(thus the mirroring) and I cannot check the bios version which does not seem to change... but being it is their file/print server, they now only power up the PC with the external USB off, then after booting up, they turn it on. For IDE drives the discovery is set to auto in the bios, wonder if it is changed to whatever settings, and the unused IDE are set to NONE, if it will prevent the MB from trying to find other devices? Ed O wrote in message ... Any help with this would be great 'cause I have a similar problem; in fact, mine is even a bit more strange: I have a ZIP-drive that's randomly used on my regular PC and my laptop, so sometimes it's connected to the pc while booting and sometimes it's not. When the ZIP was NOT connected the last time I booted the computer and then I boot the next day with the ZIP attached to the P4P800 again the ZIP is automatically inserted as "Primary Boot-Device" in the bios, shifting my DVD from pos. 1 to 2 and the harddisk from 2 to 3. (Usualy I have my DVD as first and HD as second boot-device). My ZIP-disks are not bootable, so the systems says "invalid or no boot disk". OK, so I remove the drive and reset the computer. It should start now correctly, BUT: After revmoving the ZIP my other devices are NOT moved back into their original status!?! The DVD becomes first, which is OK, but the HD is REMOVED from the boot list (2nd and 3rd boot device show up as emtpy in the bios when checking that). Obviously, the system does NOT boot at all because it does not "see" the HD as a bootable device (btw, IDE-type, no S-ATA). So, each time I remove and reattach the zip drive to my PC from the laptop (which happens at least each weekend) the boot-settings of the bios are f**** up and I have to enter the setup to correct the settings manually. I tried to disable "legacy usb support" which seemed to work on first view, but then some of my other USB devices don't work correctly under XP (SP2); esp. printer and scanner :-((( I also tried to use an admin-password, but that did not help - the settings were still changed "silently" by the bios without notification :-( So: How can Ed O and me lock the list of boot-devices to prevent this USB trouble??? TIA! Dieter Berlin, Germany Ed O schrieb: I have a P4P800-E Deluxe motherboard. Originally had 2 P-IDE drives on the primary IDE channel as C: and D: An IDE cdrom on secondary IDE channel and an external USB 2.0 drive. I bought 2 SATA drives. Mirrored the two P-IDE drives to create the C: drive Mirrored the two SATA drives to create the D: drive. Had to set the boot sequence in BIOS to boot from the mirrored P-IDE drives. (Went through a bunch of steps to move the data, built array from exising data, etc) All is well, boots from the original Win-XP image which is mirrored. BUT, when I boot with the external USB drive attached and on, it wants to boot from the USB drive. I have to turnoff the USB to boot, then turn it on afterward to access it. Any way to not have it try to boot from the USB drive? Thanks, Ed P.S. could I have used one P-IDE and one SATA as a mirror set and done the same with the other P-IDE and SATA drive? |
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