#EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE RECOVERY DUMBO HOW TO#

I then used Acronis true image to add a secure zone of 30 gb within this first primary partition K. The first being primary K drive and the second logical L drive вЂ“ is that correct.

I plugged it in and partitioned it into 90gb and 65gb. I added a new usb2 external 160gb hard drive to my pc. I have an existing internal 80gb hard drive Your user manual will explain this, if you don't have one, please leave your machine's motherboard make and model and I will link to a. If your PC boots up with a 'splash' screen, usualy will allow you to see the POST screen.ДЇrom BIOS screen, SMART can be enabled for HDD, usually in 'Advanced CMOS Setup' or somethig similar. Getting into the BIOS is usually by hitting although your POST screen should advise you if the keystroke required is different. Hitting F11 will give a menu, choose Fixed Disk Drive, IDE0, Primary Hard Drive, or just removing the External Hard Drive and doing nothing will allow the PC to boot. You've probably just changed the default boot device. Д¬an anyone give me an idiot walkthrough to get it back to booting without putting in my xp cd. I suspect i've got to do something when i boot up to get into the bios thingy but as you can see i only know half truths and that is dangerous.

#EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE RECOVERY DUMBO HOW TO#

So i reckon i've done something to how it boots up but no idea how to sort this. I also turned on this thing which allowed for the pc to be booted up by pressing F11 button if it would not boot from windows and said that if you had to do this then the boot bios would need changing. It was coming up with an error about being the wrong drive or something. I was mucking about with acronis secure zone (see other post) and had tried to put this on my new external hard drive. If i stick in my win xp cd then it boots up ok.

I get this message when i boot up my hard drive.

External hard drive recovery dumbo