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Old June 12th 21, 10:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default O.T. Missing Folder/files

Robert in CA wrote:
There's no icon to safely remove and you said if no icon was present then
the partitions haven't loaded and I could just pull the plug, correct?

I'm not going to risk the 8500( my primary computer) in this after all the
trouble we had of fixing it. Also the 780 is suppose to back up the 8500
not the other way around.

As an alternative I can put #1 or #2 inside the 780 and see if they boot.

Robert


Sure. You can do that.

If it boots, you hardly even have to look at
Disk Management then. Much of what is on the disk
has to be in working order, for it to boot.

The 780 is a legacy BIOS machine, so no UEFI
and no GPT disk support. It would be as bog-standard
in a sense, as your 8200 was. The one difference being
it has SATA ports, which the 8200 didn't have.

Test and see if it boots. It should.

But the mystery remains, why the enclosure chip insists
the drive is "removable media". My enclosure, the chip
is close to the same as yours, and I can't get it to
go to that No Media state.

And just for the record, the 2TB hard drives, the size
set for those is not the "magic value" of 2.2TB (the limit
of 28 bit LBA addressing), so there isn't much excuse for the
drive to trigger odd behavior. Only if the enclosure had a
1TB limit, might the 2TB disk upset it, and I see no such
limit here in testing. My 2TB drive works.

Paul
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