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‎06-14-2014 09:58 PM

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I have an "AMD A8-5500 APU 3.2 GHz" computer - A8 Vision HP Pavilion

 

BIOS v.7.10

 

I installed a second SATA drive (a 3TB Seagate) and booted up the factory installed OS on the first SATA drive. The operating system has no problem seeing the drive, so I installed a second OS into a 700GB partition on the second SATA drive. However, when I booted the system to finish the OS installation, the BIOS couldn't see the second SATA drive. Booting into the OS on the first SATA drive, no problems, the OS can see the second SATA drive. So, the problem occurs at boot time. The BIOS won't see the second SATA drive.

 

However, if I interrupt the BIOS at boot, and go in to run a diagnostic (and I cancel that and not run the diagnostic), all of a sudden, the BIOS can see the 2nd SATA drive and I can boot off it. Interrupting the normal BIOS boot and entering the BIOS setup, and then canceling out, will 100% of the time cause the BIOS to see the second SATA drive. If I don't do this, the BIOS doesn't see the other SATA drive 100% of the time. This is a real annoyance.

 

I looked for an updated version of the BIOS (assuming this was an identified bug fixed with a later BIOS release), but can't seem to locate anything.

 

Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

Thanks,

SFMChris

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