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Hard drive issues

oslama

oslama

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I keep getting intermittent " invalid system boot disk error" on a cold boot, but when i reboot, the system disk is detected in LBA PIO 4 mode. I ran the WD lifegaurd utility and i have the same problem-- no detection on cold boot and detection on reboot.

I have cleared the bios, swapped cables and switched ide connectors.

Do i need to repair the MBR? if so would i have to reformat?

System:

Abit KR7A-133raid w/ xp1800 and 256mb
primary master: WD 120gb SE 8mb
primary slave: NONE
secondary master: NONE but WD lifegaurd utility detects a device like ^^^^^^@@@@@@
seconday slave: liteon combo drive
raid (ide3) two wd 129gb SE's
 
Is your WD120GB listed as the first boot device in your BIOS? If not, change it to first boot device and see if that fixes the problem.

Also, not that it has anything to do with your question, but the readout on your Secondary master drive from WD utility is troublesome to me. Anyway you could switch your lite-on drive to be the secondary master?

If you're on W2k or WinXP you could boot to your OS CD and try a repair. I don't think that repairs the MBR, I believe it just reinstalls the basic Windows files. To really repair the MBR, your would have to low-level format the drive and then re-install. WD should have a utility to allow you to low-level format.

alzan
 
The jumper setting on the drive was misconfigured. I had it set on cable select when i was also using a dvd as primary slave.
 
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