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Problem booting
I have a Dell XPS8300. A while after I purchased it I added a 500GB internal drive for extra storage. However recently I bought a new 3TB drive to replace the 500. The problem is after I installed it I received the message
"Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot Device and press a key"
I checked my bios and it was set to boot properly from my OS drive. So then took out the new storage drive so it was only my OS drive and it still gave me the reboot message. So then I put my old 500GB drive back in as it was, checked my boot priority and it boots fine.
I am suspecting that perhaps boot files were placed on the 500GB storage drive. So when its not there it doesn't boot. However the drive was not in while windows was installed.
Any help or insight into this problem would be appreciated.
kb323
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December 5th, 2014 10:00
No I was under the impression that I needed to update the RST driver first in order to use the full 3TB. I read some where that if I didn't once I used over a certain size the data would become corrupted.