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  • #16
    I was just thinking it may have been that previously your system disk was drive 0, but you probably put the new drive in the second channel, so it would be drive 1.
    Swapping should fix it, but it was more of guess then anything

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    • #17
      boot.ini editing?

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Marshmallowman
        I was just thinking it may have been that previously your system disk was drive 0, but you probably put the new drive in the second channel, so it would be drive 1.
        Swapping should fix it, but it was more of guess then anything
        That would be my guess. Editing the boot.ini probably would have yielded the same results.

        Jammrock
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        • #19
          Doubt it as the machine booted to the login prompt. If the boot.ini pointed the wrong place the machine wouldn't have booted.
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          • #20
            Could it have something to do with the permissions? Are they based on the device somehow?
            Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Wombat
              Could it have something to do with the permissions? Are they based on the device somehow?
              Well I've changed hard drives around and never had that problem. I was wondering if the drive letter got assigned incorrectly then I can understand it complaining as it wouldn't be able to find the system files. But changing channels shouldn't alter that. So God knows.
              I wonder if it managed to write to the event viewer.
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