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I had to replace the Hard Dive in my XP machine. I removed the old drive and
replaced with an unformatted new drive. Booted with the Windows CD in, the CD
found the drive, I selected the entire drive for the partition, formatted as
NTSF. The install went fine, however when the machine rebooted with out the
CD in the drive. I received the error no system disk, and would not boot.

The drive is marked as Master and the only drive in the system. I even tried
both cable positions nothing helped. I can take the drive out and put in
another machine as a slave there are files there.

Do not know what to try next.

Terry, have you tried Cable Select instead of Master using the jumper on
the Drive itself?
"Terry" <Terry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6E17E566-612E-406E-B599-E26986303A8C@microsoft.com...
>I had to replace the Hard Dive in my XP machine. I removed the old drive
>and
> replaced with an unformatted new drive. Booted with the Windows CD in, the
> CD
> found the drive, I selected the entire drive for the partition, formatted
> as
> NTSF. The install went fine, however when the machine rebooted with out
> the
> CD in the drive. I received the error no system disk, and would not boot.
>
> The drive is marked as Master and the only drive in the system. I even
> tried
> both cable positions nothing helped. I can take the drive out and put in
> another machine as a slave there are files there.
>
> Do not know what to try next.
>

Use Disk management to check the properties of the disk. Is
it a primary or logical partition?



"Terry" <Terry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6E17E566-612E-406E-B599-E26986303A8C@microsoft.com...
|I had to replace the Hard Dive in my XP machine. I removed
the old drive and
| replaced with an unformatted new drive. Booted with the
Windows CD in, the CD
| found the drive, I selected the entire drive for the
partition, formatted as
| NTSF. The install went fine, however when the machine
rebooted with out the
| CD in the drive. I received the error no system disk, and
would not boot.
|
| The drive is marked as Master and the only drive in the
system. I even tried
| both cable positions nothing helped. I can take the drive
out and put in
| another machine as a slave there are files there.
|
| Do not know what to try next.
|

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:11:05 -0800, Terry
<Terry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I had to replace the Hard Dive in my XP machine. I removed the old drive and
>replaced with an unformatted new drive. Booted with the Windows CD in, the CD
>found the drive, I selected the entire drive for the partition, formatted as
>NTSF. The install went fine, however when the machine rebooted with out the
>CD in the drive. I received the error no system disk, and would not boot.
>
>The drive is marked as Master and the only drive in the system. I even tried
>both cable positions nothing helped. I can take the drive out and put in
>another machine as a slave there are files there.
>
>Do not know what to try next.

Go into BIOS setup, and make sure the hard drive is in the boot
sequence.

"Terry" <Terry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6E17E566-612E-406E-B599-E26986303A8C@microsoft.com...
>I had to replace the Hard Dive in my XP machine. I removed the old drive
>and
> replaced with an unformatted new drive. Booted with the Windows CD in, the
> CD
> found the drive, I selected the entire drive for the partition, formatted
> as
> NTSF. The install went fine, however when the machine rebooted with out
> the

The install went fine, or, the partition creation went fine?

> CD in the drive. I received the error no system disk, and would not boot.
>

Means it couldn't find the boot files.

> The drive is marked as Master and the only drive in the system. I even
> tried
> both cable positions nothing helped. I can take the drive out and put in
> another machine as a slave there are files there.
>

The pointer in the partition to the boot files is not correct or
non-existent.

> Do not know what to try next.
>

Take the hard drive back to the other PC. Check the hard drive with the
hard drive manufacturers' software. A zero write will map out "bad" areas
of the hard drive. If too many, will recommend replacement. Hope the
warranty is good.

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qualified in corporate law.

Even though the CMOS saw the drive a Primary when it was selected as "master"
I changed the pins to "Cable Select". That seemed to work everthing seems to
be OK

Thanks to all of you.

"Rich Barry" wrote:

> Terry, have you tried Cable Select instead of Master using the jumper on
> the Drive itself?
> "Terry" <Terry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6E17E566-612E-406E-B599-E26986303A8C@microsoft.com...
> >I had to replace the Hard Dive in my XP machine. I removed the old drive
> >and
> > replaced with an unformatted new drive. Booted with the Windows CD in, the
> > CD
> > found the drive, I selected the entire drive for the partition, formatted
> > as
> > NTSF. The install went fine, however when the machine rebooted with out
> > the
> > CD in the drive. I received the error no system disk, and would not boot.
> >
> > The drive is marked as Master and the only drive in the system. I even
> > tried
> > both cable positions nothing helped. I can take the drive out and put in
> > another machine as a slave there are files there.
> >
> > Do not know what to try next.
> >
>
>
>