Can't boot from Hard drives after installing Windows XP home edition

[@lain]

Hi all,
here is the problem :

I launched Windows XP Home Edition from the CD-Rom drive
then I formatted the Hard drive
then I installed Windows XP onto the new formatted drive
With my motherboard BIOS set to boot on the HDD 0, the computer is still
asking to boot from the CD-Rom
as long as the Windows XP cd is not in the CD-rom drive, the computer won't
boot ....

Questions :
1/ Is there something special to do to force the computer to boot from the
HDD and not the CD-Rom ?
2/ When formatting the hard drive, is there any special way to do it to
allow booting from the HDD ?

motherboard : ABIT Kg7 Lite (Bios AWARD)

thx for your Help

Alan

 

[Guest]

change all the boot device in BIOS to HDD-0, if that doesn't do it try HDD-1, HDD-2, and so on

 

[Guest]

Do you have the jumper pins set correctly on the hd(s),if so,open BIOS,
exit page,select,load set-up defaults,then save and exit BIOS.You shouldnt need
to manually pick the drives to boot to,the BIOS searches all on start-up,however
since only one is master with an os,it boots up xp auto,2 os is diffrent matter.

 

[Guest]

Even though the default is HDD 0, try changing the bios to HDD 1.

I built a new box that was set to HDD 1 and it would not boot to XP without the CD. I changed it to HDD 0 and it works great now.

 

[Guest]

Looks as if you found the answer, but FYI, if you installed a large capacity
HD, setting ther jumper to cable select seems to work better. I had trouble
with mine, a 160GB, until I reset the Jumpers. Good luck. Bob H.