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Started by shortslim, 2010.05.26, 20:12:38

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shortslim

I just installed ECS 2.0 and it works great.  My problem is this.  I have 2 hard drives.  1 with Windows Vista and the other with ECS.  When both are connected, ECS won't boot.  I get the flashing cursor at the top of the screen.  If I disconnect the Windows hard drive, ECS boots with no problem.  I think that I have seen this problem before.  Both drives are SATA SSDs.

ivan

Did you install bootmanager?  If not that is your problem, i.e. you have two bootable drives and the bios does not know which one to boot.

sXwamp

Try Air-boot:

http://air-boot.sourceforge.net/

It's does not need a partition and I have been using it for years without a problems.

shortslim

Thanks for the replies.  I have Boot Manager installed.  I also use a program call Power Boot, that I have been using for years.  When I use Power Boot I hide the Windows Hard drive from OS2.  When I had this problem with OS2, I would have to install OS2 from scratch to get it to work.  That method didn't work with ECS.

CDRWSel

What drive letter did you assign to both bootable partition ?
(do a try having both set to C: making bootmanager hide the other C: at boot time)

shortslim

Both drives are named "C:"

sXwamp

Quote from: shortslim on 2010.05.26, 20:12:38
I just installed ECS 2.0 and it works great.  My problem is this.  I have 2 hard drives.  1 with Windows Vista and the other with ECS.  When both are connected, ECS won't boot.  I get the flashing cursor at the top of the screen.  If I disconnect the Windows hard drive, ECS boots with no problem.  I think that I have seen this problem before.  Both drives are SATA SSDs.

I was thinking about using two SSDs (eCS&Win7) and 1TB hard drive for data.  Have you worked out a solution yet?

If not, try Vista first and eCS second with Air-Boot installed. Then, you don't have to worry about hiding eCS. I like Air-Boot, because you need a partition for it. Just make sure that you never assign a drive letter to eCS from the Windows.


shortslim

The solution that I came up with, while maybe not ideal, works for me.  After experimenting with other drives I found that if I had the Windows hard drive connected, I could not set any ECS partition as bootable.  I disconnected Windows and installed ECS on the other drive.  I then added Power boot to the ECS drive instead of the Windows drive.  I also had to change the boot order of the hard drives in my motherboard bios so that it would boot first from the ECS drive instead of the Windows drive.  Now with both drives connected I can boot either one without having to disconnect the Windows drive.  I hope that explains everything.  I should add that I experimented with a blank drive so that I would not mess up my ECS drive and have to reinstall ECS, because that took all day to do.