Greetings
I have a venerable, trust Dell XPS1530 that i use as my main development platform. It supports SATA drives, and my backup solution is to simply image the main drive (256GB SSD) to a slower/cheaper spinner.
This approach has worked very well over the years. I've had this laptop over three operating systems - xp, vista and now Windows 7 (times three for the backups). I f need to go to an older drive, I just pop the drive I need in and boot. Works well.
However, lately, the laptop is getting upset with me. Pop another drive in, and it takes a long time to go through the RAM check, then it may or may not see the "new" or other drive. Its almost as if the BIOS is remembering something from the past. Once it boots to the new drive, rebooting with the same drive is fine. Dell support was useless in this case (understandably so).
Any ideas or thoughts?
Thanks,
Charles G
I have a venerable, trust Dell XPS1530 that i use as my main development platform. It supports SATA drives, and my backup solution is to simply image the main drive (256GB SSD) to a slower/cheaper spinner.
This approach has worked very well over the years. I've had this laptop over three operating systems - xp, vista and now Windows 7 (times three for the backups). I f need to go to an older drive, I just pop the drive I need in and boot. Works well.
However, lately, the laptop is getting upset with me. Pop another drive in, and it takes a long time to go through the RAM check, then it may or may not see the "new" or other drive. Its almost as if the BIOS is remembering something from the past. Once it boots to the new drive, rebooting with the same drive is fine. Dell support was useless in this case (understandably so).
Any ideas or thoughts?
Thanks,
Charles G