New PC won't Boot from HD

[Douglas Fifield]

Posted on this once before and still no joy. Hoping for some help
from the collective wisdom.

Config:

Gigabyte GA-K8NS
Athlon 64 2800+
2X 256MB (512MB) Kingston DDR400
ATI Radeon 9600XT (128MB)
Western Digital WD800JB
Lite-On LTC-48161H (DVD/CDRW)
Antec 3700 AMB
Windows XP Home

PC booted to BIOS first time, no problem. HD and CD showed in BIOS.
BIOS boot goes very slowly, not sure if it is normal or not.

Then booted with WinXP CD and used that to format HD. No query about a
boot sector or partition. Layed down one partition for entire 80GB
drive.

Windows installed without problem. Started to load motherboard
utilities and upon first reboot, system refused to boot from HD.

Since then, I have rearranged the boot sequence in BIOS - no help.

Purchased and installed a floppy - no change.

Tried to create a boot disk per MS knowledge base article. It now
boots to drive A from the floppy, but does not see drive C or WinXP.

Kind of stuck here guys.

Any suggestions out there?

Douglas

 

[JAD]

'fdisk' and view the partitions to get an idea if all is well there.

 

[BruceM]

Yeah I reckon all went well until..............
QUOTE: Started to load motherboard utilities .............
They weren't overclocking utilities were they?
Why load utilities anyway?
Try again .......... Boot & go into bios & set all 4 drives to auto. (yeah I
know you don't have 4 so what?)
Set the boot order to CD/HD & then floppy.
Set to run with "fail safe settings".
Boot to CD, format & reload the XP.
When finished go into device manager & see how many devices have the little
warning flag raised.
Update the drivers for these ONLY. (preferrably from Internet via another
computer as more likely latest ones)
Don't forget to go back & set boot order to HD first.
......
Try that for starters but if ou gave it too much juice before then there's
not a lot can be done.............


Start again

 

[Trent©]

Posted on this once before and still no joy. Hoping for some help
from the collective wisdom.

Config:

Gigabyte GA-K8NS
Athlon 64 2800+
2X 256MB (512MB) Kingston DDR400
ATI Radeon 9600XT (128MB)
Western Digital WD800JB

On which controller?

Lite-On LTC-48161H (DVD/CDRW)

On which controller?

And how do you have each drive jumpered?

Antec 3700 AMB
Windows XP Home

PC booted to BIOS first time, no problem. HD and CD showed in BIOS.
BIOS boot goes very slowly, not sure if it is normal or not.

Does the HD show up as the approximate correct size? Is the BIOS
configured as 'auto'?

Then booted with WinXP CD and used that to format HD. No query about a
boot sector or partition. Layed down one partition for entire 80GB
drive.

NTFS?...or FAT32?

Check to see what size clusters you set up.

Windows installed without problem. Started to load motherboard
utilities and upon first reboot, system refused to boot from HD.

Started to load? Most are an automatic thing...installed by menu when
you insert the CD? Is this what you had?...or did you do this
manually?

Since then, I have rearranged the boot sequence in BIOS - no help.

Purchased and installed a floppy - no change.

Tried to create a boot disk per MS knowledge base article. It now
boots to drive A from the floppy, but does not see drive C or WinXP.

Doesn't sound like you created the floppy properly.

Check your BIOS settings again. Use the menu to reset everything to
default, safe settings.

Let us know...


Have a nice one...

Trent©

Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876!

 

[Douglas Fifield]

On which controller?

# 1

On which controller?
#2


And how do you have each drive jumpered?

Ah, there's the rub

Does the HD show up as the approximate correct size? Is the BIOS
configured as 'auto'?


NTFS?...or FAT32?

Check to see what size clusters you set up.


Started to load? Most are an automatic thing...installed by menu when
you insert the CD? Is this what you had?...or did you do this
manually?


Doesn't sound like you created the floppy properly.

Check your BIOS settings again. Use the menu to reset everything to
default, safe settings.

Let us know...


Have a nice one...

Trent©

Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876!

Problem was the jumper on the HD. Either the on-disk diagram was
wrong or I misread it. Rejumpered to 4-6 and all is well.

D.

 

[Trent©]

Ah, there's the rub

Problem was the jumper on the HD. Either the on-disk diagram was
wrong or I misread it. Rejumpered to 4-6 and all is well.

D.

FINALLY!!! I got one right!!!!! lol

Glad you got it, Doug.


Have a nice one...

Trent©

Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876!