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hard drive won't boot

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Lico

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I've had SCSI drives for a while and i'm now replacing them with a 200gb EIDE drive. I installed the drive and was able to use it perfectly fine as an added drive in conjunction with the current SCSI drives. However, when I tried to install Win2k onto the EIDE drive, the computer can't really see it and can't boot off of it. When Windows installation starts I get an error saying "failed to ArcRead the boot partition status=00000100" and then the installation crashes (bsod). If the SCSI drives are connected when I run setup, it CAN continue and install on the new EIDE drive. However, I cannot boot into that new installation -- no error messages immediately, just doesn't start. If I let it sit for a few minutes, I get a non-system disk error. The only time I was able to start that installation was by having the SCSI drive duel boot into the EIDE drive. I just returned the drive after a few days of screwing around with it and hopefully the new one will work, but while I wait I want to see if anyone has any ideas in case the new one does the same thing.

Lico
 
What was the boot sequence you set in the BIOS? Do you what the max disk size your mobo supports is? Did you use Win2K setup to format/partition the drive? Are you sure it was setup as a bootable drive?
 
BIOS was set to boot HD0, which is the correct setting (I tested my sister's HDD a few weeks ago) The BIOS recognizes it as 200gb, so I don't think that's the problem. In setup I tried formating it and it didn't work. I also tried formatting it under Windows and split it into 3 partitions in case windows couldn't handle a 200gb partition.
 
Could it be a service pack problem?
What W2K service pack are you running?
What service pack would the installation CD be using?
Maybe it's having problems with the 137GB limitation.
YMMV
 
The running install is up to date (SP3? SP4?) but the CD is the original release. I made the partitions smaller than 137gb in case that was the problem, but maybe it's a 137gb drive that it can't handle?
 
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