Non-System Disk, Press Any Key

[JCO]

One of my computers gets this error when trying to boot:
Non-System Disk, Press Any Key
When I press any key, it boots up okay most of the time but sometimes it
blue screens. The harddrive is in a removable tray. I've taken the HD out
and put in another drive. I get the same issue, therefore, I don't think
it's HD controller (I think?).

What else would give this error?
Also, this seem to happen on with IDE2 only. When I boot using IDE1.... no
issues. Does this mean I have an issue with the motherboard's IDE2 Socket.
Thanks.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

One of my computers gets this error when trying to boot:
Non-System Disk, Press Any Key
When I press any key, it boots up okay most of the time but sometimes it
blue screens. The harddrive is in a removable tray. I've taken the HD
out and put in another drive. I get the same issue, therefore, I don't
think it's HD controller (I think?).

What else would give this error?
Also, this seem to happen on with IDE2 only. When I boot using IDE1....
no issues. Does this mean I have an issue with the motherboard's IDE2
Socket.
Thanks.

Your removable tray might be marginal. Connect the disk directly to the
controller and watch what happens.

 

[philo]

One of my computers gets this error when trying to boot:
Non-System Disk, Press Any Key
When I press any key, it boots up okay most of the time but sometimes it
blue screens. The harddrive is in a removable tray. I've taken the HD out
and put in another drive. I get the same issue, therefore, I don't think
it's HD controller (I think?).

What else would give this error?
Also, this seem to happen on with IDE2 only. When I boot using IDE1.... no
issues. Does this mean I have an issue with the motherboard's IDE2 Socket.
Thanks.

I also use removable drive kits and find that they fail from time to time,

thought he problem could be in either the tray or the caddy...

I find that if I swap around drives alot in a caddy, the 80wire ribbon cable
is prone to damage,,,
so try another tray first and if that does not help
replace to caddy too.

 

[JCO]

Okay I got rid of the this error by fixing the Master Boot Record.
However, evertime I shut down, after windows saves all settings, I get a
bluescreen (error stop code 00000050 I think).
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I guess I should top post this error since it appears to be different from
the thread I started.
Thanks anyway.

 

[JCO]

Removable trays are fine. I used a new cable and went straight to the
harddrive. Same issue. I also tried a different harddrive that is also
bootable to WindowsXP. Same issue.