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[Guest]

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.

 

[Rich Barry]

Terry, have you tried Cable Select instead of Master using the jumper on
the Drive itself?

 

[Jim Macklin]

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



|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.
|

 

[Andy]

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.

 

[Noncompliant]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.