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Thread ID: 85562	2007-12-14 08:41:00	*.exe is not a valid win32 application	Agent_24 (57)	Press F1

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621165	2007-12-15 02:16:00	Maybe the system doesnt like hdd's on Secondary IDE. And prefers the IDE hdd's to be on Primary IDE. Eh? That disk (which you wish to reformat) has almost certainly got a bootable (and possibly corrupted) OS on it. That's what is booting. :( I guess that the BIOS will try to boot from any IDE disks flagged with active partitions before it starts looking for exotic (later than 1984 ;)) disks like SATA. :cool:	Graham L (2)
621166	2007-12-15 02:24:00	BUT as Agent said I can only boot from the SATA drive because the 2 IDE drives just have files stored on them, nothing bootable And I was just reading this (www.physics.ohio-state.edu) Something to do with Partionmagic. Dont know if it applies to this. Which is what Agent has done You should not have a fixed hard drive set up as the secondary master if you have a removable media drive set up as the primary slave. If you have two IDE controllers, you should connect removable media drives to the second controller, after any hard drives. Dont know if this (support.microsoft.com) Has anything to do with it	Speedy Gonzales (78)
621167	2007-12-15 02:38:00	But if this IDE drive is bootable, the BIOS will try to boot it . If it's an old disk, who knows what is on it; whether its partition has been marked as bootable, whther someone has done a FDISK /MBR . . . Of course you can have a fixed hard drive as secondary if there is a removable drive as master . It will cause a small delay if there is no disk on the removable drive, but it won't cause this sort (or any sort) of problem . Agent is getting "not his OS" when this particular drive is plugged in . The proper OS works when the drive isn't plugged in, so it isn't damaged . That says that that particular disk is loading a faulty OS when it is plugged in .	Graham L (2)
621168	2007-12-15 04:09:00	Eh? That disk (which you wish to reformat) has almost certainly got a bootable (and possibly corrupted) OS on it . That's what is booting . :( I guess that the BIOS will try to boot from any IDE disks flagged with active partitions before it starts looking for exotic (later than 1984 ;)) disks like SATA . :cool: No, that's just the thing . I am booting the exact same install of windows each time On all 3 drives I only have 1 (the SATA drive) which has windows on it . That is the same version of windows which works fine with itself and the secondary master, but goes crazy when adding the secondary slave . But if this IDE drive is bootable, the BIOS will try to boot it . If it's an old disk, who knows what is on it; whether its partition has been marked as bootable, whther someone has done a FDISK /MBR . . . Neither of the IDE drives are bootable . I know that for a fact, because I also know what's on it . Just some CD images and some demo installers and some drivers . I know that because I formatted it with NTFS, as a blank, non-bootable drive and put those files there using a different computer . Pretty much the same can be said for the other drive which is already in the system as secondary master and which works fine . Of course you can have a fixed hard drive as secondary if there is a removable drive as master . It will cause a small delay if there is no disk on the removable drive, but it won't cause this sort (or any sort) of problem . Agent is getting "not his OS" when this particular drive is plugged in . The proper OS works when the drive isn't plugged in, so it isn't damaged . That says that that particular disk is loading a faulty OS when it is plugged in . I'm not sure what you mean by removable vs fixed . All 3 drives are standard hard drives, I wouldn't call any of them 'removable' if either of the IDE drives were bootable or had system files then that might explain this problem, but as they don't, that is why this problem is so strange .	Agent_24 (57)
621169	2007-12-15 04:15:00	***ATTENTION: Please read:*** Sorry to confuse everyone again, but I have just checked my setup again and the CD-ROMs are most definitely on the SECONDARY channel. The MASTER IDE drive is on PRIMARY. That is also where I was connecting the 2nd IDE drive as SLAVE. I have no idea WHY I thought they were they other way around and was telling everyone that the CD-ROMs were on primary and the IDE HDD on secondary, because they're not. So yeah, that basically makes this problem even worse and make even less sense.	Agent_24 (57)
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