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Won't Boot When Particular Second Hard Drive Added
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The solution was provided by Pauly:
ORIGINAL QUESTION:...if you installed full UEFI making your boot disk GPT then adding an MBR disk can cause a fail to boot situation
You always have the option of putting the drive into an enclosure and connecting via USB
My HP Box won't boot when a particular second hard drive is added. That second hard drive has been partitioned for linux.
I get this error:
GPT-Formatted Disk
Legacy boot not supported
Normally my machine boots fine off the primary drive when I have a second drive installed (as long as that second drive is formatted as ntfs, I guess).
But once I put this drive in, I get the error.
BTW: The reason I am putting this second drive in is because it used to have Windows on it and I just formatted it to run Linux mint. Unfortunately, I didn't get all the data off of it before I formatted. The partitions are gone, but much of the data is still on the drive (as far as I can tell using testdisk). so I am trying to boot with my primary drive (as usual) with the second drive installed so that I can try and recover some files off of the drive.
Thanks in advance.
HP Elite 8300
Win 7 Pro 64 bit
8 Gigs ram
Last edited by anotherusername; 20 Feb 2016 at 01:07. Reason: Solved