On Sat, April 14, 2012 4:28 pm, Florian Philipp wrote: <SNIPPED>
> As we are out of rational ideas, have you tried unplugging the old disk? > You don't need it for booting at the moment, right? AS SATA is > hot-plugin capable, you can re-insert it later. Be careful here, not all SATA-controllers/ports on mainboards are hotplug capable. I have a mainboard that becomes really unstable when I try to hot(un)plug a harddisk. It runs perfectly fine as long as I switch the computer off before swapping harddrives. -- Joost