A couple of thoughts. Ensure that the drive you want to boot off of is
connected to the primary controller and the jumper is set as Master or
Master/with Slave if you have a Slave on the same controller. Check the BIOS
and look for a setting for boot order or boot sequence. You should be able
to set which drives boot in which order.
--
Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
"Tcs" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Ever since I upgraded to a newer PC several months ago, I've been planning
> on assembling another PC,
> to use primarily as a server, but to also be available as a "backup" to my
> primary PC. Because this
> was my intent, I purchased an indentical motherboard, the same amount of
> RAM, the same CPU, etc. As
> it turns out, the only difference between the two is that because I'm
> using two different style
> cases, I have to reduce the number of drives in my "backup" box by one.
> So I omitted one optical
> drive. Note that I also use removable cartridges for my hdds, so
> installing, removing, swapping one
> or more drives is as easy as shutting down, unlocking, removing and then
> inserting, locking and
> booting up.
>
> Last week my primary PC died. So it was time to assembl;e my "backup"
> box, which I had not yet
> done...
>
> Everything seemed to be going along fine, until the last moment, so to
> speak. After the POST, when
> the disk was supposed to be read, I got an error message:
>
> A disk read eror occurred
> Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
>
> If I do the three finger salute, I come right back to the very same place.
>
> There is one other thing that's different in this process, and it's
> something that I do NOT
> understand. On my primary PC, the one that died, my system drive is drive
> 0 ( 'PRIMARY MASTER' ).
> For some reason, and this may be why I can't boot it up, I don't know, my
> VERY SAME DRIVE...is
> showing up as 'THIRD MASTER'. ( I have the standard on board IDE
> controller for both Primary &
> Secondary, and I also have a PCI IDE controller installed, hence the
> 'third'. )
>
> At any rate, I cannot figure out what's going on. I was hoping that
> perhaps soneone out there might
> have a clue, suggestion, thought...whatever. Any help you might provide
> would be appreciated.
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Tom
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