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January 10th, 2017 22:00

Booting with a different drive.

Hi,

I just replaced my Dell with XPS 8910.  I would like to temporarily boot with my old HD.  Its a WD5000AAKS.  I disconnected the HD Dell came with plugged in the old HD, and even though BIOS recognizes it, the computer doesn't boot saying no boot devices found.  Its a Windows 10 HD, and it does work in my old computer.

Any ideas ? Are the architectural differences between the HD's that would account for this ?

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    ejn63

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    Posted January 11th, 2017 08:00

    First hurdle:  the new system comes with UEFI and secure boot.  Those must be OFF.

    Second hurdle:  the driver set is tied to the original mainboard.  Anything as new as the 8910 has a foreign driver set.

    Third hurdle:  the rest of the driver set.

    You may be able to read the drive in the newer system but it will not boot in it.

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    Posted January 11th, 2017 02:00

    Unless the older system is another 8910, it's not going to work - the installation is tied to the hardware on which it was originally installed.

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    Posted January 11th, 2017 06:00

    The older WD hard drive is from an older Dell, what makes it specific to the hardware ?  I thought I could get the 8910 to boot with any bootable HD ? Is there something I can do to get it to boot with a different HD ?

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    Posted January 11th, 2017 20:00

    Thanks !  Your answered saved me a lot of frustration.

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    Posted January 15th, 2017 00:00

    Second hurdle:  the driver set is tied to the original mainboard.  Anything as new as the 8910 has a foreign driver set.

    It might be able to boot with help from a third-party SATA card. Yesterday, I upgraded an XP install from an Applegate Duron, set up in 2005, to Vista and then 7 on a Studio 540s. Once Windows 7 SP1 was finished updating, I installed a third-party SATA card, set up the drivers, and moved the drive to an ASRock 1150 B85 board. (Now, if only it would upgrade to Windows 10!)

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