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Yep.
I'll give a rundown of everything I've done since my last post to try and give the best picture possible. Please hang in there.
So I know what people might be thinking, the problem must be a simple bios issue or something to do with the disk configuration. And that's exactly what I thought...but it is proving to be much more complex!
-I've checked and double checked my bois. It is recognising all my disks, and my boot order is correct.
-I've tried booting without the new disk and my other backup IDE disk. I've also booted my master disk off each sata connector seperately (sata 1-6). I've also tried every combination known to man ie: running my disks of sata 1&2, then 2&3 (since they run off different controllers.)
-Nothing seems to have worked.
I'ts quite possible that I'm still missing somthing, so feel free to point anything out if you can. But after having done all that, my gut is telling me the problem is somewhere in Windows. I guess my main reason for thinking this is that since I can actually boot windows in safe mode, would that rule out a bios or disk problem? If it were a bios issue, would windows load at all, safe mode or not?
I've since booted from the windows CD in an effort to run the Windows Recovery program, just to see what it comes up with. However I have no idea how to use it. Doh. Once the recovery program runs and I've "logged in", I'm given a list of options in dos. What would one recommend I use to see if there is in fact a problem with windows?
Cheers in advance for any advice.
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