gaberilde Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 i have win8.1 pe se on a usb how can i change it to not acess the hard drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeA Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Do you want to boot from the USB, or do you want the system not to see the internal hard drive at all? If it's booting from the USB drive that you want, you might be able to go into the BIOS/UEFI and rearrange the boot order so that it looks for the external drive first, before the internal drive. --JorgeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaberilde Posted May 25, 2014 Author Share Posted May 25, 2014 Do you want to boot from the USB, or do you want the system not to see the internal hard drive at all? If it's booting from the USB drive that you want, you might be able to go into the BIOS/UEFI and rearrange the boot order so that it looks for the external drive first, before the internal drive. --JorgeAI got it booting from the usb but when i boot the usb it turns on the internal hard drive and I forgot to tell u it's about dead and it's interrupting the boot I wondered if I can modify windows pe to not turn on the internal hard drive at boot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Open the case and pluck out the power cable from the hdd BTW: this thread is bidimensional already... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JorgeA Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Dencorso is right, unplugging the internal HDD is the surest (and easiest) way to avoid having it interfere with the boot process. --JorgeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Of course, it goes without saying that both plugging and unplugging HDDs should be done with the machine turned off (after waiting for at least one minute to ensure all capacitors have already fully discharged), and, preferably, with the cord disconnected from the wall outlet, too, just in case. That said, just the power cable is enough, there's no real need to also disconnect the HDD's data cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaberilde Posted May 26, 2014 Author Share Posted May 26, 2014 Of course, it goes without saying that both plugging and unplugging HDDs should be done with the machine turned off (after waiting for at least one minute to ensure all capacitors have already fully discharged), and, preferably, with the cord disconnected from the wall outlet, too, just in case. That said, just the power cable is enough, there's no real need to also disconnect the HDD's data cable.What one is the power cable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 The one with the larger connector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 (edited) The one with the larger connectorIF it is a SATA disk drive (dencorso crystal ball is working better than mine , as he was able to see through it the actual PC, and thus know it is a desktop and has a SATA disk drive)The one with "thicker" wires, coloured in black (2 wires), red and yellow is a more general description, commonly IDE/PATA hard disk (3.5") have this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molex_connectorwhilst SATA hard disks (BOTH 2.5" and 3.5") have this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#Power_connectorsThe connector for IDE/PATA hard disks 2.5" is integrated in the data connector, like:http://www.addonics.com/products/adms25ide.phpjaclaz Edited May 26, 2014 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaberilde Posted May 26, 2014 Author Share Posted May 26, 2014 (edited) Here's a photo of the laptop needs the hard drive taken out do I remove the screw by the bit white thing that's the hard drive Edited May 26, 2014 by gaberilde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 I take this back:(dencorso crystal ball is working better than mine , as he was able to see through it the actual PC, and thus know it is a desktop and has a SATA disk drive) evidently dencorso's crystall ball needs to be completely overhauled as unlike mine (which needing some fine tuning could not see details as I was expecting) his one provides WRONG details. Here's a photo of the laptop needs the hard drive taken out do I remove the screw by the bit white thing that's the hard driveYes , seemingly the one in the top left corner is a screw holding the hard disk in place.If you post the actual laptop model, possibly a better photo and disassembling instructions can be found. jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaberilde Posted May 26, 2014 Author Share Posted May 26, 2014 I take this back:(dencorso crystal ball is working better than mine , as he was able to see through it the actual PC, and thus know it is a desktop and has a SATA disk drive) evidently dencorso's crystall ball needs to be completely overhauled as unlike mine (which needing some fine tuning could not see details as I was expecting) his one provides WRONG details. Here's a photo of the laptop needs the hard drive taken out do I remove the screw by the bit white thing that's the hard driveYes , seemingly the one in the top left corner is a screw holding the hard disk in place.If you post the actual laptop model, possibly a better photo and disassembling instructions can be found. jaclazi just did that and pulled it out now the laptops on and it isnt booting with clicking noises or slowly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 i just did that and pulled it out now the laptops on and it isnt booting with clicking noises or slowlyI hope you mean that it IS booting (from the PE) WITHOUT clicking noises or slowly.In other words your laptop's hard disk is defective and prevented booting even from a PE, unfortunately something that is rather common (hard disks failing) especially on laptops where the smaller hard disks (thus needing higher "precision") are also subject to shocks and have worse cooling than on desktops..jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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