boot from ultrabay?

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lumangoy · #1 Post by **lumangoy** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:33 am

has anyone been able to boot from the ultrabay?

I have a T61 and just got an caddy for the ultrabay to put a 2nd hard drive.

#2 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:09 am

You have to change the boot-order in your BIOS, or press F12 at booting time to select from which item to boot.

Marin85 · #3 Post by **Marin85** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:17 pm

Booting from an ultrabay HD saved my @$$ twice

lumangoy · #4 Post by **lumangoy** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:29 pm

I tried that and it doesn't work.

the only way I got it to boot is to use boot magic (by powerquest) then add a menu to boot from my ultrabay.

if it's a dos windows 98, it boots fine (with the help of boot magic), but when I try to install XP, by first copying the the i386 folder into the fat32 partition, the setup runs fine, until the first reboot , then it won't boot anymore (still with the help of boot magic). something about boot.ini or ntloader. I'll have to try it again to see what the exact error is.

#5 Post by **bill bolton** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:22 pm

lumangoy wrote:I tried that and it doesn't work.

It very definitely does work from an F12 device selection at boot time if you have a good boot image on the hard drive in the Ultrabay.

How did you create the boot image on the drive you have in the Ultrabay?

Cheers,

Bill B.

lumangoy · #6 Post by **lumangoy** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:43 pm

the original drive that came with my T61, I put in the ultrabay caddy.

I click on the blue ThinkVantage button, then select F12 to boot from the ultrabay, ATA HDD1

I then get an error:
cannot boot from any device, then it lists all my devices

ATA HDD1 no valid operating system
it also lists
ATA HDD0 no valid operating system even though I can boot from it, with boot magic. I tried disabling boot magic with the same results.

Stargate199 · #7 Post by **Stargate199** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 5:52 pm

Make sure the BIOS is updated to the latest version. Sounds like the boot loader cannot find the boot sector on the drive for some reason.

One thing I am going to guess that happened is that when you started your XP install, it wanted to put the MBR on your main hard drive instead of the ultrabay drive. I would completely remove your main drive and try installing with just the ultrabay drive installed and see what happens.

lumangoy · #8 Post by **lumangoy** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:21 pm

ok, looks like I was able to boot off my original drive that I put in the ultrabay after updating the bios, but some XP errors. I still have my new drive in ATA HDD0

what should I have in my boot.ini?

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

I'm not sure what OS actually loaded, as I have a couple of OS's in my new drive and I got a bunch of errors, so I just shut it down.

Stargate199 · #9 Post by **Stargate199** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:58 am

Since this is a removable drive, I would just have a separate boot.ini on the ultrabay drive. You could modify the original boot.ini file on your main drive to include the OS on the ultrabay drive. You will just have to point the second boot entry to the other drive. A quick google search will tell you how to do it. It's been a while since I have done something like this so I don't remember how to do it.

lumangoy · #10 Post by **lumangoy** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:34 pm

yeah, I have a separate boot.ini on my ultrabay.

looks like leaving it at:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

works.

one thing that boot magic changes is the active partition on the ultrabay. I had to make sure I set the partition to an active partition so I could boot from my ultrabay. I'm not sure if I was having the same problems with the earlier bios.

I'm all set! thanks for all the help!

truk · #11 Post by **truk** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 12:52 pm

I don't really undersstand why you're using boot magic. Make an active partition using the disk manager on the new drive and intall to it. I'd use a linux trick to make things easier on boot. Look up and try wingrub. I use grub to triple boot using the ultrabay. You can also try adding this line to your boot.ini instead:
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

lumangoy · #12 Post by **lumangoy** » Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:53 pm

I had a ghost image from my 100gb hard drive, that I transferred to the 3rd partition of my 320gb hard drive. I need to boot from that once in a while.

anyways, I'm all set. I'll look into wingrub...

thanks.

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