Update on Post #6 - the new install on the 'C' drive is not working! PPP reports again that CMOS does not see the C drive reliably. Sometimes it does, and boots ok, sometimes it doesn't. It is a new Mobi. I'm stuck for ideas. Obviously change the CMOS battery is one, but if the machine is going through CMOS on boot then the drives should be autodetected and presumably therefore the battery state is irrelevant, so the 'Q' is why is CMOS not seeing the drive all the time? New cables, new power supply.
Anybody?