Computer wont boot to HDD unless restarted.

[Wanksta]

I built a system for a friend, and i am having some trouble with the harddrive, its an older 60GB seagate drive that i recycled from a sony VAIO. Well the problem is that everytime that i power up the machine it will not boot to the hard drive, it says "boot failure disk error", once i hit the reset button on the machine it will reboot and recognize the drive right away. I went into the BIOS and checked my boot up sequence and it seems ok: 1.floppy 2.HD 3.CD-ROM ... Its kind of an annoyance. I dont know if its a problem with the HD or the mobo, the mobo is an MSI Kt2 combo l. Once in winowsXP everything is fine and everything runs right. Ive cleared the CMOS and still the same problem. Everything in the machine is new except the Seagate drive, any ideas? Thanks alot in Advance.

System Specs
Athlon xp 1700+
MSI KT2 Combo L
256 PC133 SDRAM
350 Watt Enermax PSU
60GB Seagate Drive - Used from Sony Vaio.

 

[skullshivers]

do u have the hd in the slave slot? or the master?

in bios is it set to start hdd-0? hdd-1?

is it partitioned.. if so are u booting from the partition with the os?

do u have raid enabled?

wierd problem.. hope this gives u some ideas.. good luck

 

[zduckman]

a couple of things you might want to try.

1. Is your floppy in the bios set to seek on boot.
If no.. set it to seek on boot.. this will allow a couple of more
seconds for the hd to spin up.

2. If you bios allows you to add couple of more seconds to the
timing before seeking the hard drive and trying to boot.

I have had the above work a few different times.

best of luck

Neil