HDD Failure - Windows XP Boot

[Mr Financial]

The Bios recognizes the two Sata Western Digital Hard Drives and the IDE NEC 5250 DVD Burner.

When the system tries to boot from the hard drive, it says HDD Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter.

I put XP in the Disk Drive, LED lights up, spins up, and nothing, same message appears.

I also switched the boot order to CD/DVD drive first. Nothing.

I checked the cables. Everything looks secure.

What am I missing?

Thanks,

MF

 

[Mr Financial]

Hmm, I just looked on the back of my first HD. It doesn't have a jumper on it?

Bought it from newegg, 1 Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM

Don't I need a jumper?

 

[bacillus]

Did you install the sata drivers after pressing F6 during the install?

 

[Mr Financial]

I'm confused. Do I need to install the Sata drivers before XP?

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Most modern mobos require a HDD controller driver to be installed. As soon as the XP installer starts, there will be a prompt at the bottom of the screen asking you to press F6 if you need to install SCSI or other contoller drivers. Press F6. There will be no immediate response but after a few minutes it'll ask you to insert a FLOPPY containing your hard drive controller driver.

Drivers MUST be on a floppy NOT on a CD or on the hard drive. Usually there's a utility on your mobo's driver CD that creates the floppy, or else you need to manually copy the driver files from a folder on the CD to a floppy yourself.