"Bargue" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I suspect there is a very simple answer...
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> My main drive is a 37.6 SCSI and I had two IDE drives, plus two DVD
> drives. I have removed the two IDE drives, and swapped a DVD drive for
> a CD drive, but now it won't boot, stopping at setup. The SCSI drive
> appears to mount OK (it displays the drive details, anyway)
>
> In setup, Primary Drive 0 is set to Auto but it comes up Unknown
> Device. Primary Drive 1 is Off.
>
The boot files and the SCSI driver were probably on one of the IDE
drives. Was one of them drive C: before the change?

John;2930350 Wrote:
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> The boot files and the SCSI driver were probably on one of the IDE
> drives. Was one of them drive C: before the change?

Many thanks, John. Ahhh! This is beginning to make sense! Yes, one o
them was C: (my Mp3 files) What do I need to do? Move the files


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"Bargue" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> John;2930350 Wrote:
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>> The boot files and the SCSI driver were probably on one of the IDE
>> drives. Was one of them drive C: before the change?
>
> Many thanks, John. Ahhh! This is beginning to make sense! Yes, one of
> them was C: (my Mp3 files) What do I need to do? Move the files?

It's more complicated than that. The partition on the drive that has the
OS is probably not set to "active", it probably doesn't have a boot
sector on it, and the boot files (ntloader, boot.ini, ntdetect.com) and
the scsi driver need to be in the root directory and not compressed.

I've not done it in this situation but I think a repair install of the
operating system booting from the OS install CD might work.
The biggest problem is that the previous drive letter for the OS
is all through the registry and has to be changed to C:.

Good luck.

Many thanks. Will give it a go. Sadly, my XP install CD has a small burn
on it...




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OEM? Give the vendor a call.

Bargue wrote:

> Many thanks. Will give it a go. Sadly, my XP install CD has a small burn
> on it...
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>
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>

@$!&!!! Lengthy calls to OEM reveal that the disk that came with my
(very 2nd hand) PC was not the one supplied with it So, no go there


Bob I;2936635 Wrote:
> OEM? Give the vendor a call.
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> Bargue wrote:
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> Many thanks. Will give it a go. Sadly, my XP install CD has a small
> burn
> on it...
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