Hi-
Running an Asus P4P800 MB on a second system. I had a Maxtor 40 gb HD, which
was my boot disc on another system.

Got a WD 37 gb SATA drive-I want to use the SATA for gaming programs and
boot from the IDE drive. When I installed the new SATA drive and the IDE I
reinstalled XP to the IDE drive-or tried to. Whenever I get to the reboot
portion of the install, I get an error message that I need to insert a boot
disc.

I have tried reformatting the IDE and installing. No go.

I installed XP onto the SATA, went fine, and now the SATA is the boot disc.
System runs great with it.

Still can't get XP onto the IDE drive-again, have reformatted, tried running
from boot floppies first, removed SATA and tried-nothing. If I run off the
SATA, the other IDE drive is recognized as a valid drive. I reformatted it
from inside XP, still won't go. Ran Maxtor MaxBlast 3, reformatted
again-still can't get XP to recognize the IDE as a boot drive. I have set it
as boot drive from within BIOS.

I want to avoid reformatting the SATA, as I pulled some data off the IDE
drive when the system was running off the SATA as boot drive, before
reformatting the IDE.

I try to boot, after removing SATA completely, all cables off, it states:

Reboot and select proper boot device
Or insert boot media in device and press any key

I start with XP CD, loads files, goes to format screen, lists a partition. I
select that partition to load windows, states that windows files are
preseent-I overwrite them.

Same thing-Reboot and select proper boot device
Or insert boot media in device and press any key

Use recovery console, chkdsk says drive is OK. Use bootcfg, lists one win
installation. I set this as default boot, same thing: Reboot and select
proper boot device
Or insert boot media in device and press any key

If I leave the XP CD in the drive after it loads files and reboots, it goes
into the file loading screens again in a loop, never goes to the actual
windows setup screens.

WHAT is going on here? HELLLLLLP!

"C. Robbins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote...
>
> I installed XP onto the SATA, went fine, and now the SATA is the boot
disc.
> System runs great with it.
>
> Still can't get XP onto the IDE drive-again, have reformatted, tried
running
> from boot floppies first, removed SATA and tried-nothing.

Have you reset the boot drive order in your BIOS, so IDE is first?

"C. Robbins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Got a WD 37 gb SATA drive-I want to use the SATA for gaming programs and
>boot from the IDE drive. When I installed the new SATA drive and the IDE I
>reinstalled XP to the IDE drive-or tried to. Whenever I get to the reboot
>portion of the install, I get an error message that I need to insert a boot
>disc.

First thing to check is whether the BIOS is set to boot from the
non-SATA IDE disk.

If that's not it, there may be a wrong boot sector on the disk
or the partition you want to boot from may not be active.

Get more details from http://www.michna.com/kb/WxMove.htm. That
article is about moving an installation, but it contains most of
the required procedures.

Hans-Georg

--
No mail, please.

Yes, it is set to boot from the IDE in BIOS. I reviewed info on the
referenced page-boot sector is OK, and I reset it anyhow. Still no boot.

Just as an experiment, I took an extra 20 gb HD I had around, set for cable
select and replaced the IDE I had been trying to set up-it was able to load
XP without any problem.

Can't understand what the problem could be-I have checked the HD and it's
fine, with Maxtor diagnostic tools.

"C. Robbins" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:-dadnTNfEMZCWC3dRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi-
> Running an Asus P4P800 MB on a second system. I had a Maxtor 40 gb HD,
> which was my boot disc on another system.
>
> Got a WD 37 gb SATA drive-I want to use the SATA for gaming programs and
> boot from the IDE drive. When I installed the new SATA drive and the IDE I
> reinstalled XP to the IDE drive-or tried to. Whenever I get to the reboot
> portion of the install, I get an error message that I need to insert a
> boot disc.
>
> I have tried reformatting the IDE and installing. No go.
>
> I installed XP onto the SATA, went fine, and now the SATA is the boot
> disc. System runs great with it.
>
> Still can't get XP onto the IDE drive-again, have reformatted, tried
> running from boot floppies first, removed SATA and tried-nothing. If I run
> off the SATA, the other IDE drive is recognized as a valid drive. I
> reformatted it from inside XP, still won't go. Ran Maxtor MaxBlast 3,
> reformatted again-still can't get XP to recognize the IDE as a boot drive.
> I have set it as boot drive from within BIOS.
>
> I want to avoid reformatting the SATA, as I pulled some data off the IDE
> drive when the system was running off the SATA as boot drive, before
> reformatting the IDE.
>
> I try to boot, after removing SATA completely, all cables off, it states:
>
> Reboot and select proper boot device
> Or insert boot media in device and press any key
>
> I start with XP CD, loads files, goes to format screen, lists a partition.
> I select that partition to load windows, states that windows files are
> preseent-I overwrite them.
>
> Same thing-Reboot and select proper boot device
> Or insert boot media in device and press any key
>
> Use recovery console, chkdsk says drive is OK. Use bootcfg, lists one win
> installation. I set this as default boot, same thing: Reboot and select
> proper boot device
> Or insert boot media in device and press any key
>
> If I leave the XP CD in the drive after it loads files and reboots, it
> goes into the file loading screens again in a loop, never goes to the
> actual windows setup screens.
>
> WHAT is going on here? HELLLLLLP!
>
>