Das Boot

[Lemur]

I've had a slew of other things going on, so I haven't been able to concentrate on this just yet. Maybe if the little lemurlings give me peace this afternoon. I will say, however, that all my troubles began after mocing my hard drives from an upper to a lower cage (making room for my new baby). I have a two HD system, like most gamers I expect, but neither SATA cable was unplugged or re-plugged at the motherboard. Like any lazy slob, I just disconnected the headers at the HD, moved the drives, and re-plugged them in, paying no mind to which had been plugged where originally. They are on the 1 and the 2 SATA channel, respectively.

If I can ever convince this PC to boot from a CD again, I will try to see if a FIXBOOT will do the trick, as per Xiahou's suggestion.

[R'as al Ghul]

Like any lazy slob, I just disconnected the headers at the HD, moved the drives, and re-plugged them in, paying no mind to which had been plugged where originally. They are on the 1 and the 2 SATA channel, respectively.

Just swap the drives. The one with the boot-sector is on the wrong cable.

[Xiahou]

Just swap the drives. The one with the boot-sector is on the wrong cable.

That sounds reasonable.

[Lemur]

O pity me, my friends, for I have descended into hardware hell. My boot problems are minor and gone, to be replaced by cascading hardware failures that make me weep and throw ashes upon my head.

I bought a new terabyte drive from NewEgg to give my gaming PC some breathing room. The drive is a bust, but I didn't know that until I had tried every combination of cables, settings and cursing for the better part of a day. Not how I wanted to spend my weekend.

Now my router went blammo, and everything in my house goes through the router. The 'puters, the Tivo, the phones, everything. I upgraded the firmware from 1.8 to 1.9, and now I appear to have an expensive brick. The only reason I can type this to you is that I have a neighbor who doesn't understand how to secure his wireless.

Pardon me while I limp and shudder and drip blood all over your nice carpet. I am in a poorly way. Wish me luck.

-edit-

Fixed the router. That was scary.

[Vladimir]

Now my router went blammo, and everything in my house goes through the router. The 'puters, the Tivo, the phones, everything. I upgraded the firmware from 1.8 to 1.9, and now I appear to have an expensive brick. The only reason I can type this to you is that I have a neighbor who doesn't understand how to secure his wireless.

Usually people don't realize the severity of that until you print something out on their printer.

[ICantSpellDawg]

My laptop has been out for service for almost 4 months, my pc's power supply and video card have been busted for over a month now, my dvd player broke because it is a piece and my tv's sound comes in and out at its leisure.

I have nothing to do atm except bother my girlfriend to go online or visit my parents house to check my e-mail. - on the plus side, I am 2/3rds of the way through becoming a federal officer, so maybe this wasn't the worst timing.

I miss my set-up desperately and will soon replace it with a fixed laptop, mid-range desk-beast, un-in power supply, wireless printer, Headset/throttle/joystick set, and HD monitor with TV tuner card. YESSSSSSSS. Then I will harass all of you again.