I own a Lenovo 3000 K100. I recently replaced the OEM HDD with a Western Digital 1TB SATA II drive that I removed from a WD Essentials casing. I was using the WD drive as an external USB backup drive. It is so much quieter than the original 500GB drive that I removed the 500GB drive in favor of the 1TB drive.
Once I had the system fully configured using the 1TB drive, I decided to add the 500GB drive back in as drive 'D:' so that I could perform backups to the 500GB drive without using an external enclosure. I had purchased a SATA II external enclosure but it doesn't have a fan; the drive was getting VERY hot whenever I would run a backup.
Well, that is when the trouble started (when I installed the 500GB drive as a second drive in the chassis)
After having procured the frame rails from Lenovo and purchasing a new 2-way power cable to power both SATA II drives and a new SATA II signal cable, I am trying to solve an issue where I am getting the following "Warning!!!" on startup:
"Warning!!! There are more than one disk, protect system isn't in boot disk, this will cause protect system failure!"
I've searched the internet and have no clues on how to resolve this other than to disconnect the 500GB drive cables (and use it externally as I had before).
As a 'worst case' option, I recovered the entire system using the Lenovo recovery CDs. Both drives are in the chassis. I got this message before the recovery, throughout the recovery and I am still getting the message (no improvement).
I have read posts about changing BIOS settings dealing with 'RAID', changing boot settings, etc. Also, I've checked out the 'Disk Management' feature within VISTA 'Computer Management' and nothing works there (tried deleting the volume and re-adding, formatting, etc.).
I'm ready to remove the 2nd hdd and put it back into the external enclosure.
Oh, and I have a bunch of software and media files yet to be re-installed (Norton, iTunes, HULU, secondrun.tv, etc.).
HELP!!!
Once I had the system fully configured using the 1TB drive, I decided to add the 500GB drive back in as drive 'D:' so that I could perform backups to the 500GB drive without using an external enclosure. I had purchased a SATA II external enclosure but it doesn't have a fan; the drive was getting VERY hot whenever I would run a backup.
Well, that is when the trouble started (when I installed the 500GB drive as a second drive in the chassis)
After having procured the frame rails from Lenovo and purchasing a new 2-way power cable to power both SATA II drives and a new SATA II signal cable, I am trying to solve an issue where I am getting the following "Warning!!!" on startup:
"Warning!!! There are more than one disk, protect system isn't in boot disk, this will cause protect system failure!"
I've searched the internet and have no clues on how to resolve this other than to disconnect the 500GB drive cables (and use it externally as I had before).
As a 'worst case' option, I recovered the entire system using the Lenovo recovery CDs. Both drives are in the chassis. I got this message before the recovery, throughout the recovery and I am still getting the message (no improvement).
I have read posts about changing BIOS settings dealing with 'RAID', changing boot settings, etc. Also, I've checked out the 'Disk Management' feature within VISTA 'Computer Management' and nothing works there (tried deleting the volume and re-adding, formatting, etc.).
I'm ready to remove the 2nd hdd and put it back into the external enclosure.
Oh, and I have a bunch of software and media files yet to be re-installed (Norton, iTunes, HULU, secondrun.tv, etc.).
HELP!!!