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Dual boot with a glitch in the bios
I have one of these new all in one Medion Akoya P4020 (Aldi) touchscreen desktops.
Works reasonably well if you don't need fast graphics, the inbuilt HDTV tuner is fantastic. There is a small prob with the background LEDS failing (software) but I think Medion are working on that.
The motherboard is twin sata. One is the 1 terabyte HDD the other is a notebook style CD-DVD drive.
To get independent back up, I added a 320GB external HDD in a USB dock.
No problem, until I decided I would try a dual boot setup as I used to have in my older desk top. The second HDD crashed no matter what I tried.
I assumed it was a USB limitation so pulled out the sata CD-DVD drive and put it into an external enclosure on a USB connection.
Then I ran the sata 2 port out through an eSata connection to the HDD dock which will run off USB or sata and has its own power supply.
Still it crashed on initial boot on the second drive, I then noticed in the AMI bios,
1st Boot :CD-DVD
2nd Boot :HDD on sata 1
3rd Boot : [Disabled] my back up HDD
with a note saying "a device enclosed in
parenthesis has been disabled in the corresponding type menu"
I find I cannot re-enable this and have no idea where the corresponding type menu might be!
Emails to Medion have not been answered and I can find no driver updates on their site, never mind an answer to this particular problem.The BCD edit setup looks good but, if I select the backup drive to boot, a boot starts but fails to blue screen within a second or two.
That seems to indicate that win bootloader has started and then hit a problem? But surely that is after bios has finished?
Any help appreciated
Bobthequill