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booting from hard drive

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squibbles

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Having installed Win XP, I can't seem to get my pc to boot from my hard drive - despite putting my hard drive first in the boot sequence. I still have to boot from my Win XP cd. I'm sure there's a simple answer...which I'm clearly not seeing...thanks.

 
Yeah, basically I can't boot without the cd.

For example, if my boot sequence is HDD 0, followed by cd-rom (and the Win XP cd is in the cd drive)...my pc boots from the cd, not the hard drive. If the cd ISN'T in the drive, my pc won't boot (it gives me the "insert boot disk" message). Am I missing a BIOS setting or something?
 
I tried using the fixboot command...but I still can't boot from my hard drive. The only way I can boot my computer into XP is by using the cd. And even then, sometimes I get taken to the Win XP set up/Recovery console screen. Any other ideas??? I'm using the pc in question (which i just built) to write this reply - everything works perfectly - except for the fact that i can't boot from my hard drive.
 
Sorry to keep bumping this topic...

I'm concerned that even though I formatted my hard drive (correctly, I hope)...a master boot record may not have been created - which could be why I can't boot from the hard drive. Is this possible? If so, could somebody tell me how to check (ie. are their files that I can look for which would be used)? And how could I fix this problem (if it IS the problem)? Thanks again ppl.

-Squibs
 
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