When using hard disk drives that are not “new”, the drives may contain a boot sector on the disks making them bootable hard disk drives. The SS4200-E BIOS may try to boot the the hard disk drives preventing a clean boot.

Symptoms may include boot hang with a constant blinking status LED.

While new hard disk drives are recommended, you can add hard disk drives from other systems, provided all the following criteria is met:

1. Must be listed in the current SS4200-E Tested Hardware and Operating Systems List
   
   
2. Must be a known good functional hard disk drive
   1. Check with drive manufacture for utilites for testing hard drive drive integrity
      
      
3. Must NOT be bootable (must contain no data and wiped clean)
   
   1. Check with drive manufacture for utilites to remove existing data from the hard disk drive
      
      
4. If only two hard disk drives installed, must be installed in locations 1 & 2

This applies to:

Intel® Entry Storage System SS4200-E