skrewler Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 Yes, I searched. I couldn't find the answer to this question... I'm sure its pretty obvious but It's annoying the crap out of me.. I have Windows XP SP1 installed on my SATA WD Raptor. The most peculiar thing happens.. when the XP CD is in the cdrom it comes up with "Boot from CdRom: " then "Press any key to boot from cd-rom..." times out and boots up windows as it should. If the CD isn't in the drive, it just says "Disk Boot failure". I've gone into the recovery console and done a fixboot and also fixmbr on my windows drive but that doesn't help it. What am I missing? Thanks in advance, Mike Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpuz Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 What is your boot device priority setup in bios? Is cdrom first boot device? If yes, change it to harddrive. ALSO Mike: welcome to the forums. you should put your full computer specs in your signature under "user cp". Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skrewler Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 My priority is Floppy, CD-Rom, and then Hard Drive. My SATA is first among all my other hard drives. Ok, I will try changing hard drive above the CD-Rom priority and see if that fixes it... I'll also add my sig.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpuz Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 My priority is Floppy, CD-Rom, and then Hard Drive. My SATA is first among all my other hard drives. Ok, I will try changing hard drive above the CD-Rom priority and see if that fixes it... I'll also add my sig.. I don't believe that will. I put harddrive as first priority since i read somewhere that computer will boot somewhat faster then if you have floppy drive as first boot device. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpuz Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 when you first installed windows on that drive, did you let it format the drive? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skrewler Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 Yes, Windows installer formatted the drive NTFS. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skrewler Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 Hi, Still having this problem... anyone have any ideas? It's not urgent or anything, but I'd like to not have the XP CD in my cdrom drive all the time... -Mike Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGone Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 Do you have hard drive boot order set correctly to boot from the hard drive and then set all of the regular boot order to Hard drive and not floppy, not cdrom and not boot other enabled? RGone... Hi, Still having this problem... anyone have any ideas? It's not urgent or anything, but I'd like to not have the XP CD in my cdrom drive all the time... -Mike Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skrewler Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 I've tried all kinds of combinations of boot order, including only having Hard Drive turned on. Since none of that did anything, I just put it back to how I like it. When I had XP installed onto an IDE drive it worked just fine. I've tried boot other enabled and disabled with no help. But, my boot order, again, is Floppy/Cdrom/Hard Drive. In the hard drive priority, my raptor 74gb is at the top. Not like that should matter either, as I don't have windows installed on any other drive, but it is at the top. Why when I have the XP Cdrom in the drive does my OS load??? When it's not in the drive, "INSERT SYSTEM DISK". And no, I am not booting from the XP CD.. I press nothing.. and Windows loads up no problem. I don't think this is a boot device priority issue. In my mind, if the Raptor is ANYWHERE in the priority I should be able to boot from it. Having the XP-Cdrom in the drive should not be an issue.. For some reason I think there is some SATA issue, I did not have this problem until I put XP on the SATA. Do you have hard drive boot order set correctly to boot from the hard drive and then set all of the regular boot order to Hard drive and not floppy, not cdrom and not boot other enabled? RGone... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skrewler Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 Nex thing to try is hooking up the drive to another SATA port on the motherboard.. after I get home from classes and work.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGone Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 I notice how that you have 3 other sata drives? Or 3 other PATA drives? Because your sig shows 3x 160gb WD 160gb 8mb cache and if any of those drives was installed during original setup they have files on them from original install and is throwing the whole thing off. Boot.ini file or mbr is not correct and therefore the Raptor that came on the scene later and has O/s on it now is having problems booting. And actually it winders making the bad call from what it sees to boot from and not the board that is causing the problems. I have always made all other drives that do NOT boot into Extended/Logical drives just to make sure winders is not dorking up. Then I can boot from Sata drive whenever I want to do so and never do I load winders in a home environment with any other drives plugged up so what you have happening is not a happening. RGone... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skrewler Posted April 20, 2005 Posted April 20, 2005 The other drives are IDE and lower in the boot priority than my SATA. They should not even be looked at before the SATA drive. They are all primary, one big partition NTFS drives without Windows on them. Yes, one of them had Windows XP installed on it before, but I removed everything Windows related on them. Windows doesn't even try to load at all, I think if I had artifacts leftover from the other Windows installation on IDE drives that I would see some kind of NT Bootloader like I used to when I had Windows on them. Instead, I just see "PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK".... I haven't had a chance to see if unplugging my IDE's or putting the SATA into another slot helps (it is in #3). All SATA slots are enabled in BIOS. I'm not at home so I will check it later when I get home.. As per your suggestion, there is no way that I can reformat those drives to extended/logical as thats a ton of data that I will lose.. To me, it is logical that it is some kind of mobo issue. If there is no CD in the drive nothing even tries to be booted from the SATA.. I'll have to do some testing to get some more details, like what happens if I unplug CDrom/floppy/IDE's and just have SATA. If that works, I'll go from there... But I don't think this should be that difficult, I've never had any kind of problem as peculiar as this before.. -Mike Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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