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December 1st, 2021 12:00

hard drive doesn't appear in boot sequence

Dear Sir,

    I bought new computer from dell OptiPlex 7080 with windows 10 pro. I had added my old SATA hard disk with Windows 8.1 Professional. I can't able to find my second (WINDOWS 8.1) from Boot Menu. how can use both operating system together 

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    Posted December 1st, 2021 12:00

    New systems have UEFI BIOS and looking for drives formatted GPT.  The old drive you have is probably formatted NTFS.  The new hardware is not backward compatible with Win 8.1.

     

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    Posted December 2nd, 2021 01:00

    Hi I  had converted my old hard drive from MGR to GPT format. Still I can't able to access that hard drive and boot that windows 8.1. How can change booting device order in Bio Settings.

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