ASUS P4PE does not boot off my hard drive

Esoterica

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:( I just added the ASUS P4PE into my system and a P4 2.4 from a previous AMD set up. When I boot up my IBM 40D drive I get the dual boot menu but when I try to boot as OS it crashes and re starts. When I choose Win2K it says the hard drive in not recognizable. When I swap in an old hard drive it boots up sees the IBM disk and Norton also sees the disk. (All I do is just switch the hard drive using the same cables) When I start up off the WinXP CD and run the recovery console it also sees the dual boot WinXP/2k and I can see that all the files are still there. The cables are in correctly and I checked the bios settings. What am I overlooking? I did notice that one of the pins on the IBM drive on the far right in somewhat smaller than the rest but if that damaged the drive then why can I view the files?
 

LouPoir

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Originally posted by: Esoterica
:( I just added the ASUS P4PE into my system and a P4 2.4 from a previous AMD set up. When I boot up my IBM 40D drive I get the dual boot menu but when I try to boot as OS it crashes and re starts. When I choose Win2K it says the hard drive in not recognizable. When I swap in an old hard drive it boots up sees the IBM disk and Norton also sees the disk. (All I do is just switch the hard drive using the same cables) When I start up off the WinXP CD and run the recovery console it also sees the dual boot WinXP/2k and I can see that all the files are still there. The cables are in correctly and I checked the bios settings. What am I overlooking? I did notice that one of the pins on the IBM drive on the far right in somewhat smaller than the rest but if that damaged the drive then why can I view the files?

So are you booting into this hard drive from another system for first time and it wont boot properly? Sounds like you had a dual boot set up on this hard drive in another system and you installed it on the P4PE hoping you would get a clean boot.

My experience on the many such circumstances says that wont work. You will need to do a clean install of the operating system/s in the IBM drive.

Lou
 

Esoterica

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No, my current drive is the ibm with a dual boot on it. When the ibm would not boot I tried an old drive, which is also a dual boot, to check the connections. Since the old drive booted up fine, I think it must be the IBM drive.
 

Esoterica

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I mean, the system will boot up but, even though the ibm drive looks fine, it will not boot off the ibm drive. I know doing a clean install is always the best thing but I just have too much on my drive. Can I try a repair? Or is the a motherboard setting I am missing? It is just strange I can use my old drive but not my current drive.
 

Viper96720

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Can you backup the important stuff on to the old drive? Format the newer one and transfer the backed up files from the old to the new drive.
 

Y23KC

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If you're saying that the dual boot drive is a previous installed OS from another motherboard, then it may not be able to boot. I have the new Albatron 845pe motherboard, and tried the same thing from a harddrive and it would flash a blue screen before reaching the desktop and then reboot. I had to do a clean install to get everything working correctly.
 

Esoterica

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I finally got to work. I started up on WinXP CD and did a repair to installation. I got XP up and will repair the Win2K the same way. I changed several motherboards and just placed in a hard drive with a previous system on it and it always worked after the drivers were installed.
 

Buz2b

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I changed several motherboards and just placed in a hard drive with a previous system on it and it always worked after the drivers were installed.
You are indeed a lucky person. For the most part, when changing MB's it is either neccessary and/or a wise choice to reinstall the OS. Obviously it can be done, as you have experienced, but it is probably a 50/50 proposition. Congrats. However, there are some excellent tips in the AT FAQ's here, including this one that seems to address your next project. Good luck.
 

Rider76

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I had also had lot of hdd problems(with newer drives 8gb, 20gb, 40gb and 80gb), but I tried very old hdd(1,7gb) and it worked. So I tried allmost everything, but nothing worked with newer drives... until I realized that the old drive doesn't use ultra dma mode, so I disabled ultra dma mode AND Voila everything works fine. I mean that I can use my bigger hdds. BUT IT'S really not so fun to use hdds without UDMA, maybe Future bios updates will correct that(but I'm still calling tomorrow to my reseller, about this situation, if I could change my mb). I hope this info will help some others, because it took WEEK me to realize this f...... thing.
 

villager

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I use to just delete the enum key in the registry which located in the system under the hkey local machine. I did not do it this time. The idea is that this deleted the hardware entries in the registry and have it re built during start up.