skdevnath
03-17-2006, 05:46 PM
Hi,
I installed XP+xp2 with Slipstreaming on my A8-E mobo on Seagate Sata 300GB HDD. Somehow that mobo got fried and now I put back my AN8-Ultra, which has same chipset. My system came up and then put back my rest of the stuffs like modem, other HDDs. Now I get following error
“DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER”
Now if I select my old IDE drive, it boots up fine. I used XP cd and went to recovery option and did CHKDSK. CHKDSK found some error and it corrected that. I retried booting on SATA, this time I can boot. Now I put back one more hard drive and started getting same problem. This time CHKDSK didn’t help.
I can access this same drive as J: drive if I boot the system from my old IDE drive. So I think hard disk is still fine. Is something wrong with MBR? Or XP boot up screws up if drive letter changes. (As I put back my old drive, they might have got assigned with lower letter like D,E)
Few more things I observed. I inserted my XP CD and went to recovery option and did "bootconf" to add my SATA bootable XP drive into the XP boot loader. I now get two boot options.
1. Old xp on 160 gb IDE hard drive
2. New XP from 300GB SATA hard drive
I now can boot my system with any of these two OSes, however I want to remove my IDE drive completely.
I think bootloader is on IDE drive itself.
My SATA SG hard drive is brand new, is there something wrong with drive? Or with Motherboard? I verified my boot priority and clearing up CMOS stuffs and all
:woot: :confused:
I installed XP+xp2 with Slipstreaming on my A8-E mobo on Seagate Sata 300GB HDD. Somehow that mobo got fried and now I put back my AN8-Ultra, which has same chipset. My system came up and then put back my rest of the stuffs like modem, other HDDs. Now I get following error
“DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER”
Now if I select my old IDE drive, it boots up fine. I used XP cd and went to recovery option and did CHKDSK. CHKDSK found some error and it corrected that. I retried booting on SATA, this time I can boot. Now I put back one more hard drive and started getting same problem. This time CHKDSK didn’t help.
I can access this same drive as J: drive if I boot the system from my old IDE drive. So I think hard disk is still fine. Is something wrong with MBR? Or XP boot up screws up if drive letter changes. (As I put back my old drive, they might have got assigned with lower letter like D,E)
Few more things I observed. I inserted my XP CD and went to recovery option and did "bootconf" to add my SATA bootable XP drive into the XP boot loader. I now get two boot options.
1. Old xp on 160 gb IDE hard drive
2. New XP from 300GB SATA hard drive
I now can boot my system with any of these two OSes, however I want to remove my IDE drive completely.
I think bootloader is on IDE drive itself.
My SATA SG hard drive is brand new, is there something wrong with drive? Or with Motherboard? I verified my boot priority and clearing up CMOS stuffs and all
:woot: :confused: