Could not read from the selected boot disk ???new install

[Fred]

I had boot sequence at c,cdrom,a / not boot up .
Then I looked in CMOS and it said
Primary Slave:None
I changed this to AUTO (hope that was correct to do)
The other thing I noticed was Floppy 3 Mode
Supportisabled (is this correct)? shld I change?
--Saved/Exit
boot up, for the first time looked like it detected my
hard drive, but then I got an error:
Windows could not start because of a computer disk
hardware configuration problem. Could not read the
selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.[/QUOTE] QUESTION:
After installing new HD Seagate 40gig and a new Video

card ATI 9200 I am doing a clean install of Windows XP
Upgrade Home edition. / After setup installs all the

necessary files.A red progress bar that indicates the
system will reboot in 15 seconds so the Graphical User
Interface portion of setup can begin. This is the end of
the text portion of setup.But then, system reboots and
the CD starts up from the very beginning of Setup again.
If I take CD out of drive, and reboot I get an error:
After verifying DMI pool data..........

DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
Please help? What am I doing wrong./

I have "one Hard drive" now, the old one is in the
garbage.

ANSWER:[/QUOTE]
Make sure that your hard drive is listed in the boot
sequence in your bios.
It sounds like you've got it set to boot from CD first,
but it's not looking
at the hard drive at all.

Or...you didn't load something like ez-bios on the drive,
did you?

 

[Fred]

oops./my mistake, I have only ONE drive, I set primary
slave back to NONE.
Still having troubles tho./ Do I need to use fdisk?
Should I format the drive?(can I format, I already tried
to instal XP and it created a NTFS file.
What should I do ?

-----Original Message-----
I had boot sequence at c,cdrom,a / not boot up .
Then I looked in CMOS and it said
Primary Slave:None
I changed this to AUTO (hope that was correct to do)
The other thing I noticed was Floppy 3 Mode
Supportisabled (is this correct)? shld I change?
--Saved/Exit
boot up, for the first time looked like it detected my
hard drive, but then I got an error:
Windows could not start because of a computer disk
hardware configuration problem. Could not read the
selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.

QUESTION:
After installing new HD Seagate 40gig and a new Video

card ATI 9200 I am doing a clean install of Windows XP
Upgrade Home edition. / After setup installs all the

necessary files.A red progress bar that indicates the
system will reboot in 15 seconds so the Graphical User
Interface portion of setup can begin. This is the end of
the text portion of setup.But then, system reboots and
the CD starts up from the very beginning of Setup again.
If I take CD out of drive, and reboot I get an error:
After verifying DMI pool data..........

DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
Please help? What am I doing wrong./

I have "one Hard drive" now, the old one is in the
garbage.

ANSWER:[/QUOTE]
Make sure that your hard drive is listed in the boot
sequence in your bios.
It sounds like you've got it set to boot from CD first,
but it's not looking
at the hard drive at all.

Or...you didn't load something like ez-bios on the drive,
did you?

.
[/QUOTE]

 

[Richard Trusson [MSFT]]

Hello Fred,
it is always a good idea, if possible, to do a clean install. So yes I would
delete all partitions on the hard disk and do a clean install. When you boot
off the Windows XP CD you should be able to delete any existing partitions
on the hard disk, create a new one and install into that. (If you have OS
and data partitions you only really need to delete the OS partition to
ensure a clean install.)

--
regards,

Richard

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