Old setup was two IBM 45GB deskstars with XP Home on Abit KT7 Raid board.
One OS disk, one disk for files.
Everything was working perfectly fine.
Got a great deal on XP Pro and two WD 8mb 80GB HDs.
Pulled the IBMs and loaded XP Pro onto the WDs.
WDs on the RAID header as masters with the IBMs as slaves.
CDRW, DVD ROM and Zip 250 on the normal headers.
Added the IBM disk I keep the files on, as a slave, and everything works great.
Added the IBM XPHome OS disk, as a slave, noticed I was given a choice of OS's to boot to and didin't catch it in time and so booted into old OS as it was listed first.
Worried at first, but booted up, logged on, shut down.
No problems.
Rebooted and fdisked that puppy.
IBM OS disk should be clean now, right?
Restarted and now the Bios is saying that there is no boot/system disk to insert one and reboot.
Something weird is going on... the bios is looking for the old OS disk *first*.
Checked Bios settings... boots to RAID HD then to HD0 then to CDROM.
This was the settings I'd used earlier so I'm thinking they were ok for this new setup.
Ok... so I'm thinking the jumpers aren't set correctly even though I've got them set the same on the other IBM drive that is working perfectly.
So I reset the jumpers according to the legend on the drive.
No dice.
Reset the jumpers several different ways just to see.
Either it gives me the "no boot/system disk" message or hangs showing just one of the WDs.
So I pulled the power on that drive and posted here.
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks
Brett
One OS disk, one disk for files.
Everything was working perfectly fine.
Got a great deal on XP Pro and two WD 8mb 80GB HDs.
Pulled the IBMs and loaded XP Pro onto the WDs.
WDs on the RAID header as masters with the IBMs as slaves.
CDRW, DVD ROM and Zip 250 on the normal headers.
Added the IBM disk I keep the files on, as a slave, and everything works great.
Added the IBM XPHome OS disk, as a slave, noticed I was given a choice of OS's to boot to and didin't catch it in time and so booted into old OS as it was listed first.
Worried at first, but booted up, logged on, shut down.
No problems.
Rebooted and fdisked that puppy.
IBM OS disk should be clean now, right?
Restarted and now the Bios is saying that there is no boot/system disk to insert one and reboot.
Something weird is going on... the bios is looking for the old OS disk *first*.
Checked Bios settings... boots to RAID HD then to HD0 then to CDROM.
This was the settings I'd used earlier so I'm thinking they were ok for this new setup.
Ok... so I'm thinking the jumpers aren't set correctly even though I've got them set the same on the other IBM drive that is working perfectly.
So I reset the jumpers according to the legend on the drive.
No dice.
Reset the jumpers several different ways just to see.
Either it gives me the "no boot/system disk" message or hangs showing just one of the WDs.
So I pulled the power on that drive and posted here.
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks
Brett
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