Can only boot from hard disk with XP cd in?

[JustinTD79]

I just built a new system: Athlon 64 3200+ Venice, Epox9NPAJ nForce4 mobo, 2x512 Corsair DDR400 PC3200, 256MB Rosewill Radeon X800XL, Audigy 2, WD 10K RPM Raptor SATA, Maxtor 250GB ATA, Enermax 535W PSU

I installed XP Pro on the SATA Raptor, and it will only load XP if i have the bios set to boot from the cd drive and have the XP cd in it. If i set the bios to boot from the hard disk first, it says "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK". I set my hard disk boot priority to boot from the SATA Raptor before the ATA Maxtor. I have both set to master. Is it trying to boot from the Maxtor drive? Does that need to be set to slave even though its the only drive on that IDE channel?

XP will only load if i set the bios to boot from cd. It says "Press any key to boot cd" and, if i let it just sit there for 2 seconds without hitting a key, XP starts up. Why?

 

[mdahc]

Holy Sh*t...I had this same problem today with my brother's machine. I had to jumper both his DVD-ROM and HDD to CS and then everything worked. Try that.

Configuration:
AMD AthlonXP 2500+ (Barton)
Shuttle AN53/N Ultra (nForce2 Ultra/400, no Soundstorm, no SATA, no Gbe)
512MB KingMax DDR333 (dual channel)
Gainward 64MB Geforce4 MX (AGP 8X)
NEC FE700+ 17" CRT
Soundblaster Live! 5.1
Creative Labs SB250 speakers
80GB WD800JB SE HDD
Pioneer DVD-106S DVD-ROM
Antec SmartPower 350
AMS GMono black case
Windows XP Pro SP2
nVIDIA Unified Driver 5.10
nVIDIA Forceware 71.89

 

[stevty2889]

When you were installing windows, did you have your Maxtor drive hooked up as well? If so the problem is most likely the problem. Disconnect your maxtor drive, and do a repair install on your raptor, and that should solve the problem.

 

[JustinTD79]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
When you were installing windows, did you have your Maxtor drive hooked up as well? If so the problem is most likely the problem. Disconnect your maxtor drive, and do a repair install on your raptor, and that should solve the problem.

Yeah, i did have the Maxtor drive hooked up. That must be why the Maxtor was assigned the C drive, and the Raptor was assigned the D drive, even though it's the BOOT drive. I tried to change the drive letters in disk management, but it wouldn't let me....said "windows cannot modift the drive letter of your system volume or boot volume" for both drives.

 

[theMan]

i think you should just format the raptor, and take out the maxtor and re install windows.

 

[aGreenAgent]

Just take out the maxtor and repair install on the raptor

 

[JustinTD79]

I got it working right. I just unplugged the Maxtor and re-installed Windows on the Raptor. Now the Raptor is C, and the Maxtor is F. D and E went to the dvd/burner drives. Thanks.

 

[aGreenAgent]

Good show.