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‎07-04-2016 08:19 AM

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Product: Pavilion 9408nr
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista

How can I add a second drive from another laptops primary drive. I took the drive out of the same type laptop that the motherboard crashed. I put it in drive bay 2. Having problems with booting. Sometimes wants to boot from drive 2. Is there a MBR there somewhere? Are there jumpers to make it a slave. Sometimes it will install software on 2 without  any question. Is there a way to make it a slave?

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‎07-04-2016 08:53 AM

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Important- copy all of the data on the second hard drive that you want to save to the first drive.

 

Boot to Windows with the primary hard disk. Use the Windows Explorer to locate the second hard drive. Right click on it and format it.  Once that is done, all it will be is a storage device and not bootable until an operating system is installed to it.

 

The BIOS will only see the primary hard disk as bootable as it will now be the only disk with a MBR boot sector.

 

The days of placement of jumpers to determins Master or Slave on hard drives is long gone. SATA drives do not have slave\master jumpers like the old school IDE and EIDE drives did.


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‎07-04-2016 08:45 AM

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Need the full model number. Most classic 17 inch models that have dual hard drive bays, the second bay is not bootable.

 

Is it a dv9000 series like 7 or 8 years old or something more recent?

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‎07-04-2016 08:53 AM

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Important- copy all of the data on the second hard drive that you want to save to the first drive.

 

Boot to Windows with the primary hard disk. Use the Windows Explorer to locate the second hard drive. Right click on it and format it.  Once that is done, all it will be is a storage device and not bootable until an operating system is installed to it.

 

The BIOS will only see the primary hard disk as bootable as it will now be the only disk with a MBR boot sector.

 

The days of placement of jumpers to determins Master or Slave on hard drives is long gone. SATA drives do not have slave\master jumpers like the old school IDE and EIDE drives did.


I am a volunteer forum member. If my suggestion helped you solve your issue, help others by marking that post as the accepted solution. Say thanks by clicking on the Yes button next to the "was this reply helpful?"



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‎07-04-2016 09:03 AM

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Yes its an oldie but goodie. I bought 2 at the time, maybe 10 yrs ago. Motherboaders finialy crashed due to Nvidia chip flow. Had one redone and worked for a couple years then crashed. The other had probs also and had that one reflowed and all it well for the time. Decided to add the hard drive from one to the other and have been having some issues. Thought mabe there was a jumper setting like the old days to make a slave using cable select. 

If the second bay is not bootable then my probs are elsewhere. I have installed Vista from a clean install wiping all the HP stuff. I am in process of installing all the upgrades for this model. This may help. Firmware is 4.0

I will first flash 4.2 

Thanks for your help

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