I hope someone has more clue than I on this one.

This PC has a mix of SATA & PATA HDDs:
2G for data
Something with a 64G partition for OS, linux mint
And an old 250G used now & then for a partial backup - other backup HDDs are larger.

All working well. I fit a 500G HDD from a PVR on SATA, gparted format it, keeping it as FAT32. After this the pc won't even try to boot. Setup shows the correct HDD is still flagged for first boot attempt, but nothing. It does its hardware checks, reports the HDDs then hangs.

Remove the new 500G and everything works again.

Er, what's going on?


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