Wont boot with 2nd drive installed
15 August 2007, 12:05 PM
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Wont boot with 2nd drive installed
Hi,
Need some help please.
When i install a 2nd drive on this machine it wont boot,keeps saying boot disc failure,when i put the drive in the kids machine all is fine,both on xp and ntfs,all jumpers set right and boot in bios correct order,it seems like its trying to boot from the 2nd drive for some reason.
I have formatted it and did try to do a clean install of xp on it as well but it would not complete for some reason.
Its a hitachi 120gb drive,does anyone know of a check i can do on it if i put it in the kids to access it and go online.
Thanks for any input,thats if i get any lol
Need some help please.
When i install a 2nd drive on this machine it wont boot,keeps saying boot disc failure,when i put the drive in the kids machine all is fine,both on xp and ntfs,all jumpers set right and boot in bios correct order,it seems like its trying to boot from the 2nd drive for some reason.
I have formatted it and did try to do a clean install of xp on it as well but it would not complete for some reason.
Its a hitachi 120gb drive,does anyone know of a check i can do on it if i put it in the kids to access it and go online.
Thanks for any input,thats if i get any lol
15 August 2007, 01:15 PM
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Thats probably due to the fact that the boot sector/loader of the 2nd drive is kicking in before your original hard drive despite the jumper/bios settings. The 2nd drive has the operating system on installed on totally different hardware ie your kids machine so it wont boot from your pc. When you add a 2nd drive to a pc it shouldn't have an operating system on it for this very reason.
15 August 2007, 01:21 PM
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its been a while now but when you used to use fdisk to create drives I am sure you used to flag them from within fdisk as active. This would make them bootable as well as requiring the sys hidden files on tracks 0 and 1.
If you never want to boot from the disk again you could delete the sys files from the secondary HD.
You used to be able to recreate the sys part of the disk by using a dos command of sys d: (if the second drive was d)
Like I said, havent done this for many years so could be worth a technet search.
If you never want to boot from the disk again you could delete the sys files from the secondary HD.
You used to be able to recreate the sys part of the disk by using a dos command of sys d: (if the second drive was d)
Like I said, havent done this for many years so could be worth a technet search.
15 August 2007, 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Bodgit
use fdisk to create drives I am sure you used to flag them from within fdisk as active.
15 August 2007, 05:03 PM
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Thanks for replies,
Sorry i was not too clear on the point of putting it in the kids machine,i put it in that as a slave too and everything booted up all right and it also went it my mates to take all my data off that i needed to keep.
The drive was my master untill my daughter tried to install a game on it and it crashed and i could not get it going so put it in my mates as a slave to recover all important data then formatted it from the kids to use as a 2nd drive as theirs only had a 6gig in but need it back in mine now.
Even when i format it from the kids pc and then put it in mine as a slave it still wont boot.
I will go and do a search for the fdisk routine as well.
Cheers
Sorry i was not too clear on the point of putting it in the kids machine,i put it in that as a slave too and everything booted up all right and it also went it my mates to take all my data off that i needed to keep.
The drive was my master untill my daughter tried to install a game on it and it crashed and i could not get it going so put it in my mates as a slave to recover all important data then formatted it from the kids to use as a 2nd drive as theirs only had a 6gig in but need it back in mine now.
Even when i format it from the kids pc and then put it in mine as a slave it still wont boot.
I will go and do a search for the fdisk routine as well.
Cheers
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