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I updated the bios and it turns out that the acer bios doesn't support two HDDs drives on boot. &nbsp;So I have to live with pulling the drive out until its booted then reinsert it.
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I updated the bios and it turns out that the acer bios doesn't support two HDDs drives on boot.  So I have to live with pulling the drive out until its booted then reinsert it.

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I removed my optical drive from my ACER laptop and replaced it with a 750 Gb hard drive. &nbsp;When I boot the laptop the light on the hard drive comes on but nothing else happens, no boot screen, no Acer splash screen, no option to press f2 to go to set up - nothing.<br />
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So I pulled out the new drive and restarted the laptop. &nbsp;Windows 7 booted normally. &nbsp;Later not realizing that the laptop had hibernated or was sleeping (ie screen was blank) I reinserted the new hard drive and when I touched the keyboard, windows awoke to the login screen. &nbsp; After logging in I could now see my new drive and all the files on it.<br />
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Now after restarting, it's back to the same condition as above - no boot screen, nothing.
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I removed my optical drive from my ACER laptop and replaced it with a 750 Gb hard drive.  When I boot the laptop the light on the hard drive comes on but nothing else happens, no boot screen, no Acer splash screen, no option to press f2 to go to set up - nothing.

So I pulled out the new drive and restarted the laptop.  Windows 7 booted normally.  Later not realizing that the laptop had hibernated or was sleeping (ie screen was blank) I reinserted the new hard drive and when I touched the keyboard, windows awoke to the login screen.   After logging in I could now see my new drive and all the files on it.

Now after restarting, it's back to the same condition as above - no boot screen, nothing.

Swapped out DVD drive for HDD and now laptop won't boot

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