"Disk Boot Failure. Please Insert System Disk"

[GZFant]

I finally got around to reformatting my computer last night and low and behold a couple really frustrating problems arise.

First off:

A8N SLi-Deluxe Latest BIOS 1016
Opty 170
7900GT
1 WD 500gb
1 Seagate 120gb
OCZ 520 watt

After the reformat 2 things have happened;

1. My Seagate hard drive is only listed in the BIOS, Windows does not detect it.

2. Everytime I restart, if I do not keep the windows disk in the DVD-ROM it stops with this message "Disk Boot Failure. Please insert system disk and press enter"
- If I keep the windows CD in it boots up just fine
- If I change boot priority to Hard Disk First, it refuses to boot with this message

Any and all help is appreciated.

 

[Uncle Bob]

So the seagate was your boot drive - yes?
Are both drives SATA?
Does Windows detect the WD drive?
Did you change any bios settings?
What method did you use to format the drive?

 

[sonoma1993]

did you load the sata drivers for your motherboard during the windows install?

 

[GZFant]

Originally posted by: Uncle Bob
So the seagate was your boot drive - yes?
Are both drives SATA?
Does Windows detect the WD drive?
Did you change any bios settings?
What method did you use to format the drive?

Both drives are sata and my bios detects the WD drive on boot up but when in windows it is not detected.

To format, I put in my Windows XP CD, changed boot priority to CD ROM and loaded with Windows CD. Chose to delete partitions then format the drives. After I deleted the partitions and formatted my WD drive, I could not find the Seagate drive anymore. It disappeared out of the partitions page. It still shows up in the bios and in boot devices but no windows.

Originally posted by: sonoma1993
did you load the sata drivers for your motherboard during the windows install?

I did not know there are Sata drivers. Is that part of the plug and play though?

 

[Uncle Bob]

So, after booting with Windows CD, you deleted the partitions off both drives... then you recreated the partion on the WD drive and asked Windows to format and install on the WD drive.

Now, you can boot from the WD drive into windows, but don't see the Seagate drive

Correct so far?

Have you gone into disk management console, do you see the Seagate drive listed there as uninitialized?