Change hdd2 to the primary boot drive

My Pavillion has two hdd. I have cloned the boot drive (1) to the secondary drive (2). Now I want to move drive 2 into the primary drive bay as the boot drive. What is required to accomplish this. Are there bios settings to change or pin settings on the drives that need changing?

No. All you need to do is physically swap positions. The method varies a bit between the different dv7 generations but basically you remove the cover plate(s) and swap the drives one for the other. If you give us the exact model we can probably find pictorial instructions and maybe even a video. Only a drive in the primary bay is bootable which serves as a fail-safe.

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My bad Eric. The startup preference recognizes the primary as a 10.8.3 startup volume but when u select it the system does not boot. I can only boot from my external backup drive

HT4889 Replacing System hard drive with a new one. How to get everything over to the new boot drive?

Replacing System hard drive with a new one. How to get everything over to the new boot drive? Should I use Carbon Copy or does apple have a better untility to do this?
I can't get my current system drive (OSX 10.8.3) to start on the first try. I always have to shut down and restart again to finally see the Apple logo.
Have used disc utility to repair the disc and permissions several times and that works. The next time I boot up, it works fine and I get the apple logo, but then the second time I boot up, it's back to the blank screen again and it only boots after the second try. I have tried this repair three different times now always with the same result. Works right the first try (after the repair) then from the second time on it doesn't work. I just get the white screen until I reboot a second time.
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If you have a time machine back up of your current drive you can do this
Shut down your computer, install the new drive. While the computer is off plug in the external hard drive that you have your time machine back up on. Hold Option key while the computer turnes on, let go of the option key once you get a grey screen. Shortly after you'll see a list of bootable drives, select the one that has your time machine back up on it and boot into that drive.
From there go into disk utility, format your new drive too, osx extended journaled ( I think, double check that, its been awhile since ive had to do this), hit format
Exit disk utility and then you can use time machine to copy all your exisit data to the new hhd and then your pretty much done.
There is also a program called Carbon Cloner that will do esentially the same thing however I've never uesed it.

Hey, can i clone my Macbook Pro internal hard drive and then paste it all onto a formated external hard drive, then make the Mac use the external as the primary hard drive?

hey, can i clone my Macbook Pro internal hard drive and then paste it all onto a formated external hard drive, then make the Mac use the external as the primary hard drive? please help for i only have around 618mb left out of 189GB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If what doesn't work?
If cloning your internal drive to the external drive is not successful, I expect CCC will tell you so. Assuming that doesn't happen, you will have a bootable replica of the internal drive on the external drive once CCC has finished.
You can then do any of several things:
1. Replace your internal drive with a much larger one (320GB or 500GB, or even larger), and clone the external drive's contents onto the new drive so you'll have all your data in one place. Note that if you do this, you'll also need to buy an external drive that's large enough to back the new internal drive up on.
2. Boot from the external drive as a temporary measure while you clear at least 30-40GB of data off the internal drive, allowing you to keep using it and saving small amounts of data to it. The external drive will then contain the only copies of the files you've deleted from the internal drive, so you'll need a seond external drive large enough to back both the other drives up on.
If you can't comfortably clear a minimum of 30GB off the internal drive, you really need a larger internal drive right now, and you shouldn't bother fooling around with the inadequate one you have — you'll just quickly overfill it again.
3. Replace the optical drive in your MBP with a large conventional hard drive, giving you two hard drives inside the machine. You will then need one or more external drives large enough to back up both of the internal drives.
If you sense a theme here — back up, back up, back up — you are correct. It's flat-out foolhardy to own or use a computer without maintaining complete, up-to-date backups of everything at all times.

Choice of primary/boot drive when 2 drives are installed

Hi,
I purchased machine (m7-j120dx) with spindle-HD installed in HDD1 slot., and upgraded by adding SSD in HHD2 slot.
I cannot find in BIOS setup controls to designate drive in my SSD (located in HHD2 slot) as boot drive.
It seems the choice of boot drive does not exist.
Is it hard coded in BIOS to use drive connected to HDD1 connector (on motherboard) as boot?
I was hoping to solve this in software, rather that physically move the drives around
(to make my SSD boot, and HD secondary).
Is the physical switch of drives is necessary?
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Yeah you have to switch them. It is hard wired to use only the primary bay drive as the bootable.
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DBMS_CDC find only the columns that are changed along with the primary key in the table

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We are having a requirement to find the change data in the production environment.
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ename
address
salary
DOB
1
test1
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test2
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But i need to get only the empid (primary key of the source table) and the ename column as only that's been updated not the rest of the 3 columns.
Can i accomplish this.
Please advice.

Hello,
Thanks for the information.
but if i change the change table then i will miss the other columns right?
I want to get the columns( empid and ename) only if ename is changed. i.e when ever any column in emp table changes i need to get all the columns where the data is changed along with the primary key columns empid.
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HT204414 does the system library need to be on the primary hard drive or can it be on my external hard drive and still be able to use the cloud?

does the system library need to be on the primary hard drive or can it be on my external hard drive and still be able to use the cloud?

I have the system Library on a second internal drive and it is syncing with iCloud with no problems. Also the Media Browser it seeing it there.
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The Startup Disk Pref Pane should make it permanent!?
Might try Resetting your Mac's PRAM, then set the Startup Disk Pref Pane again.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238

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Try typing into Terminal…
sudo du -h -d 1 /
… and then enter your administrator password when requested. Be sure to unmount all other drives as they will add themselves to the totals in the /Volumes directory. You should get something like this…
nsnowing:~ > sudo du -h -d 1 /
205M /.Spotlight-V100
8.0K /.Trashes
1.0K /.vol
12G /Applications
1.5K /automount
6.6M /bin
16K /cores
2.0K /dev
148K /Developer
35G /Library
3.0K /Network
167M /private
4.7M /sbin
1.9G /System
53G /Users
503M /usr
4.0K /Volumes
103G /

Is a 64GB SSD good enough for a primary boot drive on a Macbook Pro?

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I would go with a min of 128GB personally, ideally a 256GB drive is best, but depends on what you are going to run as to how much space you will require.
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Making the primary boot partition C:

We have workstations with built-in multi-card readers (for SD cards), which during deployment end up being assigned drive letters before/lower than the hard drive. Using a task sequence, is there a way to set the hard drive as C: drive ?
Thanks

The format and partition task has the ability to choose specific physical disks and set their drive letters. You'll have to experiment with these settings until you find the right combination that works. Alternatively, you can also script diskpart to tightly
control the results and forgo the format and disk task altogether.
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HP Pavilion dv3 notebook PC can't burn files using the primary dvd drive.... always hangs in 5%

my HP Pavilion dv3 -4103TX notebook PC have a problem in burning any files.. until now it doesn't work. I update the software and still can't burn any files using the built in dvd rom. please help me how to fix it...

Try reseating (Remove and reinsert) the DVD drive. You can instructions on page#50 over here
After this is done,Run Microsoft fixit from below link
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9740811
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Selecting a boot drive for Hyper-V 2012 server - is a boot drive performance important?

I'm setting up a new Hyper-V 2012 server dedicated to virtualization and I'm trying to determine the best choice for the boot drive.
I have 2x250gb SSD drives i'm considering for storage pools for VM's
I have an old 80GB SATA drive
I'm wondering how important the primary boot drive is in a Win 2012 Hyper-V setup. I can partition one of the SSD's to provide a boot partition, or I can just dedicate the 80GB SATA.
What do you think would be a better choice?
Edit: A more precise question, why not partition the SSD for boot? Is there any benefit for separating the disks for boot vs just the partition?
Thanks,
Deco

Hello,
I hope you are having a great day!
What resources are available to you? If you have hardware RAID, it would be best to configure the SSD drives for RAID 1 (mirrored) and run everything from that. This will provide you fault tolerance in the case of a drive failure.
If hardware RAID is not available to you, then definitely use the 80GB SATA drive as the OS Boot Drive, without a hardware RAID for the OS disks you will have a single point of failure no matter what disks you use. Yes with SATA drive the system will boot
up slower :-( , but that is about the only negative.
This will also enable you to leave the SSD's as RAW un-formatted disks which can then be configured in a Storage Pool with mirroring if you wish and then have the VHD's reside there.
Absolutely, dedicate the SSD's for the placement of the Virtual Machines Config and Vhd/Vhdx Files.
For absolute best performance results use VHDX Fixed disks for maximum performance.
Dynamically expanding VHDX will have a minor almost unnoticeable performance hit (depending on the purpose of the VM) and help ensure that the amount of hard disk space the VHDX file is occupying is kept to a minimum. An example of degradation in performance
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But.... I think there is a but here... Mac OS does still look for other boot drives none the less.
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Change hdd2 to the primary boot drive

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