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Install to Seagate hybrid fails when install tries to restart
I have a Seagate 500 GiB hybrid drive, (SSHD) p/n 1EJ162-306, ST 500LM000, on a Gigabyte P45ST-ES3G mobo.
(The mobo is about 5 years old, does not have UEFI (thank heaven) and has AMI BIOS.)
Got this drive because old hd crashed, so I cannot clone Windows. I cannot install Windows to this drive. I have the BIOS set to boot from CDROM first, then Hard Drive. Trying to install Windows, the system goes thru the Win setup
until it tries to restart the computer, and then I get a complete reboot: "press any key to boot from CDROM." If
I don't press any key, it just sits there. If I do press a key then the Install disk starts from zero again. Trying to
install Win 7 Pro, but even tried XP sp2. Same thing either way. Obviously this worked once with an old-fashioned
rotary hard drive.
Anyone have a solution for this?
--doug